Oleg Antonov
Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (Russian Олег Константинович Антонов, scientific transliteration Oleg Antonov Konstantinović; * 25 Januarjul / February 7 1906greg in Troizi in Moscow, .. † April 4, 1984 in Kiev ) was a Soviet aircraft designer.
Life
Oleg Antonov was born as the son of civil engineer Konstantin Konstantinovich Antonov and his wife Anna Yefimovna. At the age of 17 years he designed in 1923 as a student in Saratov after a call to the working group " glider " and the magazine " Smena " his first glider, however, has remained a project. A year later he designed the sailors OKA -1 " Golub " ( pigeon ), who participated in the first Soviet Gliding Competition in Koktebel in the Crimea. In the following years, other structures, with whom he regularly took part in competitions and he also flew itself. Thus he came into contact with other designers, among them Sergei Ilyushin and Sergei Korolev.
After the end of the school Antonov began studying at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad, which he completed in 1930. He then worked from 1931 to 1938 as chief designer in the glider factory Tushino. There he developed in 1937, built in small series RF - seventh With this aircraft Olga Klepikova posted on July 6, 1939, 749.203 kilometers an absolute track record for gliders. Furthermore be mentioned are the types of " standard " and " UPAR ", which were also built in series and served for beginners training of pilots, as well as the first Soviet all-metal gliders A- 13th A total of about 5,000 units were built in the 1930s by Antonov gliders. When the plant was closed in 1938, Antonov joined for two years in the design office of Alexander Yakovlev, where he received a copy of the German liaison aircraft Fieseler Storch, which developed OKA- 38, the series production was prevented by the outbreak of war in Kaunas. Then he turned for a short time as head of a project group again gliding to and developed, among other things, the glider A-7 and A-11 as well as the "flying tank" A- 40th In 1943 he moved back to the OKB Yakovlev, where he worked as first deputy in the drive 153 in Novosibirsk on fighter aircraft designs, including the Jak - third In 1945 he became a member of the CPSU
On 31 May 1946, the OKB Antonov was established in Novosibirsk, who moved to Kiev later. The first developed model appeared in 1947 and was built in about 18,000 copies multipurpose aircraft An -2. The so-called " air tractor ", a large biplane, is still partly used at the present time. This was followed by cargo and transport aircraft such as the propeller - turbine engines equipped medium-haul aircraft An-10 Ukraina (1957 ) and then in each case the largest aircraft in the world, the An-22 Antaeus (1969) and the An-124 Ruslan (1982). The current record holder at 225 Mrija (1988 ) was designed after his time.
For his work, Oleg Antonov was honored three times with the Order of Lenin, the Stalin Prize, the Lenin Prize and the title Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1966). Antonov was Doctor of Technical Sciences (1968) and deputy of the Supreme Soviet. 2004, an asteroid of the inner main belt is named after him: ( 14317 ) Antonov.