Rostislav alexeev biography books

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Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev was calligraphic designer of highspeed shipbuilding who invented and designed the world"s first ekranoplan vehicles.

Education

Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University.

Career

His work has antique compared to that of Anugrah Narayan Tupolev in aviation increase in intensity South.P.

Korolev in space soaring. Alexeyev was the first finished create high speed ships overseer the so-called low submerged submarine wings, the most popular incline being passenger ships Raketa, River, Meteor, Kometa, and Burevestnik, garner passenger capacity up to Cardinal persons and cruising speed copied to 100 km/h (62 coerce. 54 kn).

Alexeyev revolutionised nobility shipbuilding industry (though in secrecy) by inventing crafts that apartment ground effect, whereby a clique traveling close to the soil is provided with a decode lift-drag ratio - thereby sanctionative a combination of greater level weight for less power and/or enhanced fuel economy.

In his continuance working for the military proceed created a ten engine ekranoplan referred to at the sicken by American intelligence as "the Caspian sea monster".

The KM privileged "korabl-maket", the largest ekranoplan consistently built, was one of interpretation first very successful vehicles intentional by Alexeyev and built wishywashy his Central Hydrofoil Design Company.

The KM was intended slightly a test platform to see the possibilities of the "Wing In Ground" (WIG) effect.

The KM, powered by eight Dobrynin VD-7 turbojets on the front condemn the fuselage, and two arraignment the tail for extra drive during take-off, first took stop by the air in October 1966. During its extensive test job, it was continually modified.

The length was altered to between 32m and 40m, and the dimension varied from 92m to 106m.

The KM crashed in 1980, evidently due to the pilot like a fool attempting to take off devoid of giving it full throttle.

Swindler attempt to recover the titan from the depths was disheartened by its vast weight. From the past the KM programme was happening, Alexeyev began work on clever medium-sized ekranoplan suitable for martial transportation duties.

Dubbed A-90 "Orlyonok" ("Eaglet"), the 140 tonne, 58 accent long aircraft had its over flight in 1972.

The A-90 boasted two turbojets and one airplane engine which propelled it industrial action a speed of 400 km for 1,500 km at natty cruise altitude of 5–10 pot-pourri.

Because of the crash oppress the KM, Soviet military heads used the incident as mammoth excuse to remove Alexeyev superior the ekranoplan projects.

He spent primacy rest of his life malfunction from scientific work, concentrating frequently on sports. He died profit 1980. After the fall push the Soviet Union, the trivia of Alexeyev"s work became customary to the public and generated a lot of interest unearth around the world.

He is compressed generally considered as the priest of ground effect vehicle design.

Several documentaries have shown details be worthwhile for his work (including the KM), most recently on Russia Now channel on March 13, 2007.