Robert Bartini

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Robert Bartini
Aeronautical Engineering
AwardsOrder of Lenin

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (

aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground-effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union, nicknamed Barone Rosso (Red Baron) because of his noble descent.[1]

Biography

Early life

Robert Bartini was born on 14 May 1897, in

aristocrats, and instead they granted custody to a peasant family to raise him.[9]

Bartini graduated from

Politecnico di Milano
in 1922.

Soviet Union

After the

airplanes. At the International Exhibition in Paris in August 1936, the Bartini Stal-7 broke the international speed record.[citation needed] He also published papers concerning aviation construction materials and technology, aerodynamics, dynamics of flight, and even theoretical physics.[10][11][12]

In 1938, Bartini was arrested by the

supersonic
long-range reconnaissance aircraft.

Contributions of Bartini were well appreciated at the highest levels of the Soviet government, and he was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1967. High esteem for his contributions to defense afforded him the help from Pontecorvo and Gershtein to publish his theoretical physics paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Doklady). The paper was considered to be strange even by Gershtein who was asked to help edit it and prepare for publication, while after the publication some prominent physicists initially thought that "Roberto Oros di Bartini" was a fictitious name invented specially for a scientific hoax. Bartini himself was apparently very proud of his paper, signed it with his noble name, and confided in Gershtein that this was the most important contribution of his lifetime. The paper develops the idea of the dimension of spacetime which is dynamical, equal to four only on average, and presenting an argument in favor using some numerological relations between physical constants.

Ground-effect vehicles

VVA-14 at the Central Air Force Museum.[1]

In the mid-1950s, Bartini became involved in

Polaris missiles
.

Death

Bartini died on 6 December 1974, in Moscow, at the age of 77. He was buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery with a grave featuring a monument with the inscription "In the land of the Soviets, he kept his oath to devote all life that the red planes flew faster than the black (ones)". Bartini had almost no contact with Italy since he had left in the 1920s. Beriev eventually cancelled the VVA-14 project as development slowed and eventually stopped after Bartini's death.

Influence

Bartini influenced many Soviet aircraft engineers, particularly

Alexander Yakovlev
and many others.

Bartini's Effect, a phenomenon in

aircraft propellers are arranged of two motors in a tandem, was named in honor of Bartini as it was first used on his DAR
airplane.

List of Bartini's aircraft designs

This table of Bartini's designs incorporates information extracted from the Russian language Wikipedia article on Bartini. "(Prototype)" indicates an aircraft project where a physical example was built to some extent but was never operational. "(Draft)" indicates an aircraft project that was likely a prefeasibility study where no physical examples were built.

Name Description
A-55 (Prototype) Medium-range bomber flying boat (1955)
A-57 (Draft) Jet-powered flying boat strategic bomber with a range of 14,000 kilometers (8,700 mi) (1957)
AL-40 (Draft) Nuclear-powered hydroplane, SibNIA, 1960s.
DAR Stainless steel flying boat for long range Arctic reconnaissance.
Be-1 Light amphibious ekranoplan for the study of ground effect. (1961)
E-57 Seaplane bomber, carrier cruise missile K-10 nuclear bomb. Crew - 2 people. By design, the plane was identical to the A-57. Tailless. Range - 7000 km
Yer-2 (DB-240) Military version of the Stal-7 developed by
Vladimir Yermolaev
. (June 1940)
Yer-2 2xAM-35 (April 1942)
Yer-2 2xACh-30B ~300 were built. 3x1000kg bombs. Max speed 446 km/h. Range 5000 km.
MTB-2 (Draft) Maritime heavy bomber (1929-1930)[13]
MVA-62 (Prototype) Amphibious aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing. (1962)
P-57 (F-57) (Draft) Supersonic bomber variant of the A-57.
R 53.6K (?) All the aerodynamic surfaces were "calculatable" and have up to 4-th derivative function value. 1940s.
R-AL (Draft) Nuclear-powered long-range reconnaissance variant of the A-57 (1961)
Stal-6 Experimental fighter, established Soviet speed record in 1933.
Stal-7 Twin-engined stainless steel 12-seater passenger aircraft prototype, established international speed record in 1936 (1935)
Stal-8
 Fighter based on Stal-6 (1934)
T-107 (Prototype) Passenger plane (1945)
T-108 (Draft) Light transport aircraft (1945)
T-117 (Prototype) Two-engined transport aircraft prototype - scrapped before finished (1948)
T-200 (Prototype) Heavy amphibious military transport (1947)
T-203 (Draft) Supersonic plane with ogival wings (1952)
T-210 (Prototype) Variant of the T-200 (draft)
T-500 (Prototype) Heavy transport ekranolyot* (draft)
VVA-14-1/M-62 (Prototype) Experimental anti-submarine vertical takeoff ekranoplan. Variant with pontoons designated 14M1P.

* Ekranolyot refers to a hybrid ground-effect vehicle (ekranoplan) also capable of flight at more regular

altitudes
.

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b Ciampaglia 2009, p. 28.
  2. ^ Chutko (1978)
  3. ^ https://telex.hu/english/2023/08/23/the-mysterious-hungarian-who-designed-the-soviet-submarine-hunting-flying-monster
  4. ^ https://www.geni.com/people/Berthe-Orosdi/6000000023982532665
  5. ^ https://telex.hu/english/2023/08/23/the-mysterious-hungarian-who-designed-the-soviet-submarine-hunting-flying-monster
  6. ^ https://telex.hu/english/2023/08/23/the-mysterious-hungarian-who-designed-the-soviet-submarine-hunting-flying-monsterhttps://telex.hu/english/2023/08/23/the-mysterious-hungarian-who-designed-the-soviet-submarine-hunting-flying-monster
  7. ^ OROSDI (OROSDY, 1848-ig SCHNABEL) ADOLF (Valószínűleg azonos S. Lőrinc és Steiner Anna Pest belvárosában 1826. szept. 12.-én r. kat. vallásra keresztelt fiával.)
  8. ^ Ipari vállalkozó. Nőtlen. (Az emigrációban felesége Kurlander Berta lett.)
  9. ^ Ciampaglia 2009, pp. 11-12.
  10. ^ Ciampaglia (2009)
  11. ^ Oros di Bartini (1965)
  12. ^ Oros di Bartini (1966)
  13. ISBN 978-1906537340
    .
Bibliography
  1. Chutko, I. (1978) Red aircraft. Moscow: Political Literature. (russ. И. Чутко "Красные самолёты". М. Изд. полит. литературы, 1978)
  2. Ciampaglia, Giuseppe. La vita e gli aerei di Roberto Bartini. (In Italian) Roma, IBN Istituto Bibliografico Napoleone, 2009.
    ISBN 88-7565-076-4
    .
  3. Roberto Oros di Bartini. Some relations between physical constants. In: Doklady Acad. Nauk USSR, 1965, v.163, No.4, p. 861-864 (In English, Russian); Originally: Доклады Академии наук, 1965, т.163, №4, c.861-864.).
  4. Roberto Oros di Bartini. Some relations between physical constants. In the collection: Problems of the Theory of Gravitation and Elementary Particles, Atomizdat, 1966, p. 249-266, in Russian only (сборник Проблемы теории гравитации и элементарных частиц, М., Атомиздат, 1966, с.249-266).
  5. Kuznetsov O.L., Bolshakov B.E. (2000) Kuznetsov P.G. and the problem of sustainable development of the humanity in the system nature-society-man. /russ. О. Л. Кузнецов, Б. Е. Большаков. П. Г. Кузнецов и проблема устойчивого развития Человечества в системе природа—общество—человек. 2000)
  6. Avdeev Ju. (2008) Prescient Genius, Red Star. (russ. Ю. Авдеев, (2008), Гений предвидения, "Красная звезда".) Retrieved 22-Oct-2010

Further reading

  • Bartini information in Russian Retrieved 14-Feb-2005.
  • 1989. The collection "the Bridge through time". (russ. сборник "Мост через время")

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