Atlanta and Lightning

During the excursion to the M-55 took a little boards, standing nearby on the court. The most interesting, of course, the VM-T "Atlant»!

9 photos via livejournal.





The appearance of this aircraft is directly related to the most ambitious project of the Soviet Union - Buran. There were two ways of delivering Burana at Baikonur: Ground or air. Since, according to the calculations, the laying of roads would be very expensive, chose the air way.

"Ruslan" at that time was still under construction and then the VM Myasischev proposed converted into a cargo plane bomber 3M.



How is that possible at all, to carry on the back of the aircraft loads exceeding the dimensions of the fuselage ?! Was possible. To do this, the fuselage was lengthened by almost five meters replacement tail section, slightly elevated due to the "oblique" insert to avoid the collision with the ground during landing and take-off at high angles of attack.
Naturally airspeed decreased and the stabilizer swept horizontal tail was replaced by a straight line, a larger area set with a large cross V. odnokilevym vertical tail was replaced increased two-keel.



The rest of the wing and the fuselage (including stall) in size and shape are unchanged.



The first flight of VM-T sostoyalya April 29, 1981 Total "Atlanta" completed more than 150 flights in freight traffic system "Energia-Buran".



On the basis of the experience gained in the operation of VM-T, together with the Yakovlev Design Bureau. OK. Antonov was established transport aircraft An-225 "Mriya" carrying capacity up to 225 tons on external sling. Its first flight was in 1988, and a year later "Mriya" drove "Buran" at Le Bourget.



Molniya-1.



That's what they write about it on the plane airwar.ru:

Light multipurpose aircraft Molniya-1 development NGO "Lightning" is designed for 4-5 passengers and is designed for mass personal use, business flights, transportation of goods and the use of the national economy. The first flight took place on 18 December 1992

The aircraft is equipped with engine M-14PM-1 (360 hp). Preparations for the serial production of the aircraft factory at Samara JSC "Aviacor." Received bids for the supply of more than 300 aircraft. The absence of a type certificate considerably limits the feasibility of the aircraft. FBS was ready to order some 250 aircraft Lightning for patrol functions for the protection of the state border.

At JSC Aviacor put into production series of 20 aircraft. On September 1996 were built 4-year (plus one aircraft for static tests) aircraft Molniya-1, of which 2 were in LII. Gromov and 2 - at the airport in Samara (Samara aircraft not equipped with passenger seats and some interior equipment). By May 1996 12 airframe were collected and the month of September with the production of aircraft position has not changed, but the plant continues to experience great difficulties of a financial nature with a complete set of collected aircraft.

M1-012 - basic version with the engine M-14P and domestic equipment.



And here is another member of the family "lightning».

"Lightning" can be regarded as a step towards the creation of Myasishchev aircraft M-101T Gzhel.
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