SOVIET AIR FORCE EXPERIMENTAL STATION IN ZHUKOVSKI

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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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of the ulant.
(b) 1;o aircraft ever rolled to the
flying.
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(c) The pavilions were supply air shafts and the building
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(d) That the airplanes were t.med to the side un,:erground.
2. Observed aircraft (Annex)
a. Type
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A monoplane, turbine driven, single rudder assen1,1y, retractable
landing gear. Turbine driv3 on underside of fuselage, also ad-
mission of air and exhaust, zxwept-back '-,wo-section wings with
out section curving toward the tail and upward.. Fuselage rising
at rear end. ..3.d-wing monoplane. Lmpennage placed remarkably
higho and. passim* over to fuselage0 ildevator tssembly sl.anting
toward the rear.,
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seen in the airi until atout iatwil or Jay lO4P three planes were
observed flying. From iarch 1949,
this type flying IN gularly each day..
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for acrobatics The planes could
be seen very well from the P., camp, as they were not far
from the camp on their landing anproaca flight.
b. Type II
A monoplane, single rudder assembly, single turbine drive,
Tetractable landing gear0 flngular twin-trapezoidal wings,
nose air intake, exhaust on under side of fuselage, rudder
assembly spade-shaped, elevator assembly twin-trap
angular. This type was seen as early as July 1948
ast that time this t
In large formations. Once, in the fall of 1948,
this type of turbojet fighter suspended to the u er-
s e of a four-engine bomber, The four-engine bomber lande'd on
ZEUKOVSKI airfield and took off with a fighter of the described
type, in the air, the turbine fighter was released from the
bomber and flew on independently, The bomber then made a
very low and slow soaring approach flight for the airfield.
korward in the bow there
was a turret with all-round visibility mounted by a number of
machine guns. On top of the turret with all-round visibility
was a kind of control cabin (naval term would be conning tower).
On the fuselage, in front of the rudder asembly which, a good
deal toward the forward end, terminated in the fuselage there
was an AG-turret, and, on the same spot, pointing downward and
to both sides, were AO-turrets. There was a turret on the
stern also.
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c. Tyne III
Aonoplane, single rudder asseloly, two turbine drives, retractable
landing geara dings, shape of fuselage and empennage, see type I,
the difference being that type III wai larger than typo I. Two
turbines were suspended to the airfoils: projecting over the wings
both forward and aft. This type was also seen for the first time
about iarch 1949. These planes were only seen gliang and only
one plane at a time was observed in the air.
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b. The observations on the airplanes show training as
a glider pilot. On the whole, they are considered correct,
c, Taking an basis the description of ty' 11, which appeared
in large formations as early as the summer of 1948 and thus be-
longs to the well-known types Yak 15/17 or _an 9/11, it nay be
stated taat the description cy;* the rudder assenbly as rear end
part of the fuselage must be considered the result of the visual
impression of the flying plane at a certain distance. The result
will be that the sane conditions would apply to tynes I and III;,
in other words, t!at the empennage was simply nounted on the
fuselage. flowever, it has been carefully sheet-covered; this
the rear end nf the fuselage and the empennage seem to form one
niece.
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d. Type I represents a return. to the fuselage stage turbine,
by which more space for the pilot, the weapons and other use-
ful load or equipment in the fuselage isigained. The wings
mounted on a continuous middle piece must also be considered
as constructional simplifications in case of damage or when .
being fired on. Type III seems to be from the same designer
as type I.
e. The ?subterranean' : installation of the aircraft hangars
was only known through rumors. Such subterranean
hangars have not been mentioned rinfirof the previous reports
on :z0uKovSKI and do not seem cren1il1g4 as the transport of
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airplanes between the hangars and the airfield via the build-
ings of P- -It I and T$AGland the woods, could not be observed
from the camp:
2 Annex:
Aircraft Observed in ZRUKOiSKI.
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