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Feb 04, 1899 Saratov, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia Died on 29 Jan 1970 (aged 70)
Soviet engineer
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About Viktor Bolkhovitinov
- Viktor Fedorovich Bolkhovitinov (?????? ????????? ????????????) (4 February 1899 – 29 January 1970) was a Soviet engineer and team-leader of the developers of the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 aircraft.
- He was also the lead designer of the Bolkhovitinov DB-A bomber named after him. Bolkhovitinov was one of the first graduates of the Zhukovsky Academy.
- In 1934, he designed a modernized version of the Tupolev TB-3 bomber called the DB-A (long-range bomber of the academy).
- On August 12 of 1937, a DB-A attempted to fly over the North Pole to the USA, but the crew perished. In 1937, he designed the "S" or "Spartak", a small sleek high-speed bomber with a long greenhouse canopy.
- Two contra-rotating props were driven by a pair of Klimov M-103 V-12 engines.
- Development of the aircraft and its planned variants was discontinued when the war began. In 1940, Bolkhovitinov became head of his own experimental design bureau OKB-293.
- Based on a plane design by Bereznyak and Bolkovitinov a few years earlier, and inspired by the attempt of NII-3 to build a ramjet powered plane, Bolkhovitinov decided to build a rocket-powered short-range interceptor.
- This was the BI-1. In 1944, A.G.
- Kostakov (head of the jet propulsion institute NII-3) was arrested.
- NII-3 and Bolkhovitinov's OKB-293 were merged into NII-1, a new jet propulsion research institute.
- Bokhovitinov was head of research in NII-1.
- In 1946, his division was turned over to Matus Bisnovat, forming Zavod 293. Bolkhovitinov received a doctorate in 1947 and became a full-time professor at the Zhukovsky Academy in 1949.
