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Q: What is this thing? Send me your best guesses, indicating name(s) of its creator(s), earthy or not... Nicolas Antoine (nea2@lehigh.edu) was first to mail me a correct reply. Congratulations!
A: The picture of trivia #8 depicts a BOK-5 (Buro Osovikh Konstruktsii) It is a simple tailess single-seater glider, powered by one 100-hp M-11 engine. Flights started in summer 1937.
Dimentions: Span 9.86 m, length 4,365 m, wing area 23,15m2 BOK (buro osobikh konstruktsii) OKB for experemental aircraft. Director Vladimir A. Chizhevskii, deputy N. N. Kashtanov, constructors Kamov, Sukhoi, Skrzhinskii, Cheryanovskii, Krichyevskii. Opened 1 January, 1931.BOK merged into Sukhoi OKB in 1940 after arrest of Chizhyevskii. Chizhevskii joined Tupolev in 1949. Thanks to everybody who particpated in this round! Among those who did send a correct answer or made a good guess were:
Alex Makarenko (makara@mit.edu) Jeff Steel (jello@nando.net) James Boren (jboren@artcenter.edu) Jean-Francois Chich (chich@jouy.inra.fr) mkilkenny (mkilkenny@aeromail.hq.nasa.gov) Don Gillmore (airussia@netzone.com) David Willis (nbs3harvevl@ntu.ac.uk) |
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This is BOK-5, a tailless single-seater. Flown by Stefanovskii and Nyukhtikov from summer 1937. Dural/fabric, inboard elevators flaps, ailerons. Load factor +8 (!)