Robert Ludvigovich Bartini

Robert Ljudwigowitsch Bartini (Russian Роберт Людвигович Бартини; originally Roberto Oros di Bartini ) ( born May 14, 1897 in Rijeka, formerly Fiume; † 6 December 1974 in Moscow) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Italian descent.

Life

Bartini, 1916, the officer left school. After the First World War, he learned to fly in 1921 and in the same year member of the Italian Communist Party. In 1922 he completed his studies at the Milan Polytechnic.

After the Fascists came to power in Italy in 1923, he fled to the USSR. As of September 1923, he worked in secret development and production, the so-called mailbox 5 He worked from 1928 to the design of an amphibian, from 1930, he was for this task chief designer in a design office and developed in 1937 with his design team, the all-metal passenger aircraft Stal -7, which completed some very successful long-haul flight tests and later served as the basis for the construction of long-range bomber Jermolajew Jer -2.

On the construction of the bomber Bartini was not more involved, because he was arrested in 1938 and remained until 1946 arrested. He then worked again at the development of new aircraft types in the Development Office OKB -86 by Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev Taganrog. In 1956 he was finally rehabilitated. He worked at Berijew among other things, the design and manufacture of pedal effects ( Ekranoplan ), a supersonic amphibious aircraft, which had a so-called Strake first time, and the design of a nuclear-powered flying boat.

He has also written widely on technical issues, but also about the basics of physics and elementary particles. Many of his handwritten notes are on his testamentary request, unpublished until now.