Cheranovsky (Cheranovskii) Aircraft and Designs

[Stargazer]

The BICh-8 Treugolnik:

 

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The BICh-9 Gnom:

 

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The BICh-10 remained a project, which served as a wind tunnel test model for the BICh-14 (TsKB-10). So far I've only got this bit of text in German to offer:

 

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The BICh-11 (or RP-1):

 

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The BICh-12 was a variant of the BICh-11:

 

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The BICh-13 (apparently, Cheranovsky wasn't superstitious!):

 

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The BICh-14 (also known as the TsKB-10):

 

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I do not have anything for the BICh-15 designation so far.

 

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The BICh-16 was to be a man-powered glider with flapping wings, in the manner of the BICh-18.

Forum member hesham suggests the attached drawing could be the BICh-16, which seems to be confirmed by the attached photo which dan_inbox kindly submitted.

 

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Here is the BICh-17 fighter, which remained a project:

 

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The BICh-18 Muskulet was a strange biplane glider with flapping wings, apparently motioned by the pilot's legs:

 

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I have no picture of details for the BICh-19 project at the moment. There is a picture circulating on the web which displays a crescent-shaped, UFO-like jet-powered design, but it is undoubtedly a fake, so I prefer not to reproduce it here.

 

[Stargazer]

The BICh-20 Pionier was a light sport aircraft:

 

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The BICh-21 (also known as the SG-1) was a direct development of the BICh-20, larger and more streamlined:

 

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The BICh-22 glider (or Che-22), likely Cheranovsky's best known aircraft, was a radical design departure from the previous types:

 

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Almost as well-known as the BICh-22 is the BICh-23, which was evolved from it:

 

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The BICh-24 and BICh-25 were postwar projects. The design shown below is likely one or the other:

 

[Stargazer]

Cheranovsky's last project was the BICh-26, an experimental jet fighter to be powered by the AM-5 engine and meant to reach Mach 1.7.
All the drawings, models and mock-up had been prepared, some parts had even been built already, but Cheranovsky's death in 1960 put an end to the project.

 

[hesham]

In the book (The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft),I found under the title L.B. Kurchyevskii on pages 160 and 161 that :

he was the designer of APK series of large-calibre cannon and he
worked in USP for NKTP and he invited the aircraft constructors
to make a fighters to armed them with these guns , such as IL
and Cheranovskii BICh-17 fighters,after he was arrested there
were other two projects one from BICh design and the anther
from P.D.Gurshin at MAI.

I didn't know those projects but I suggest that for BICh,it was BICh-19,
because BICh-16,17,18,20,21 and 22 were well known.

Excellent work Skyblazer,


and for BICh-19,I suggest it was this fighter,also for BICh-16,please see;


http://modelist-konstruktor.com/v_mire_modelej/ot-ikara-do-nashix-dnej

 

[Stargazer]

• I can't read your text, it's too small. Can you edit your post?
• The cannon was for the BICh-17, there is no reason to think it was for another design.
• I have already attached your picture to the BICh-16 post, indicating that it was your suggestion. Thanks.

 

[hesham]

Hi Skyblazer,


the book said that exactly;


By that time it had a several other projects including BICh-type fighter with DRP guns.

 

[Stargazer]

Aside from the well-documented BICh- series, there is a handful of undesignated designs also related to Cheranovsky. Here are the ones that I know of (if any of these is not Cheranovsky's and I've made a mistake, please let me know!):

 

[hesham]

In the book (The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft),I found under the title L.B. Kurchyevskii on pages 160 and 161 that :

he was the designer of APK series of large-calibre cannon and he
worked in USP for NKTP and he invited the aircraft constructors
to make a fighters to armed them with these guns , such as IL
and Cheranovskii BICh-17 fighters,after he was arrested there
were other two projects one from BICh design and the anther
from P.D.Gurshin at MAI.

I didn't know those projects but I suggest that for BICh,it was BICh-19,
because BICh-16,17,18,20,21 and 22 were well known.

Excellent work Skyblazer,

and for BICh-19,I suggest it was this fighter,

I meant BICh-15,the BICh-19 was a variable incidence biplane glider.

 

[Vladimir]

Hi,

 

[Stargazer]

Hi,

Vladimir, the first document I already enhanced and segmented within each corresponding entry.
The second document is the infamous BICh-19 fake which I warned about, and I believe it should not be in this thread...

 

[Stargazer]

The last two is Lippisch "Delta-I"

Of course! I knew it rang a bell... Thanks. I'm removing the pics right away. Can you remove your post? If youy do, I'll remove this one too.

 

[Vladimir]

Hi,

Vladimir, the first document I already enhanced and segmented within each corresponding entry.
The second document is the infamous BICh-19 fake which I warned about, and I believe it should not be in this thread...

Hi,Skyblazer i did not know that BICh-19 fake.. i think that it is one of the Cheranovsky's concept...

 

[Stargazer]

Hi,Skyblazer i did not know that BICh-19 fake.. i think that it is one of the Cheranovsky's concept...

Well, I've read elsewhere that it's a fake, and I do believe it. First, you can look at the design and then look at the BICh-20. You'll see that there is quite a difference in design philosophy! The would-be "BICh-19" is virtually a flying saucer, jet-powered and highly streamlined, not very 1930s to me (the air intake, the shrouded exhaust, the bubble canopy all look much too modern to me). There was it seems, however, a real Cheranovsky design that reminded of it a bit, but it was designed later and was not as detailed as this (the bat shaped wing design which the designer holds in the first undesignated picture I shared).

 

[Vladimir]

Hi,Skyblazer i did not know that BICh-19 fake.. i think that it is one of the Cheranovsky's concept...

Well, I've read elsewhere that it's a fake, and I do believe it. First, you can look at the design and then look at the BICh-20. You'll see that there is quite a difference in design philosophy! The would-be "BICh-19" is virtually a flying saucer, jet-powered and highly streamlined, not very 1930s to me (the air intake, the shrouded exhaust, the bubble canopy all look much too modern to me). There was it seems, however, a real Cheranovsky design that reminded of it a bit, but it was designed later and was not as detailed as this (the bat shaped wing design which the designer holds in the first undesignated picture I shared).

i have any info about it...So i agree with You

 

[Vladimir]

Cheranovsky's aircraft family and size comparison

 

[Stargazer]

Cheranovsky's aircraft family and size comparison

Very interesting to have the comparative sizes at a glance. Thanks.

 

[dan_inbox]

Thanks for a great recapitulative series.
To complete it, I have this photo for the BiCh-16:

img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/dan_pub/Soviet%20Cheranovsky%20BICh-16%20ornithoptere%20a%20energie%20musculaire_zps0mdnyfxl.jpg[/img]

(the posting script of the forum seems severely unstable. Font sizes change randomly after any paste, and the attachment box has stopped working again on my system)

 

[Stargazer]

Thanks for a great recapitulative series.
To complete it, I have this photo for the BiCh-16

Brilliant!! Thanks a lot for this one, dan_inbox. I'm taking the liberty to also attach it to my BICh-16 post (you'll be duly credited for it of course).

the posting script of the forum seems severely unstable. Font sizes change randomly after any paste, and the attachment box has stopped working again on my system

I think there's even more to it than that:
1°) We've lost the button that enables to see the source code of the document.
2°) There no longer is a wysiwyg display (bold, italic, etc. now appear as code).
3°) Even the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+B for bold, Ctrl+I for italics) no longer work!!!

 

[hesham]

From A-Z magazine.

 

[Vladimir]

Hi to all

 

[Maveric]

An other picture...

 

[Stargazer]

You made my day, folks! Thank you so much Vladimir, Maveric and hesham, for this GREAT additional material!

 

[Vladimir]

You made my day, folks! Thank you so much Vladimir, Maveric and hesham, for this GREAT additional material!

Hi, Skyblazer
Interesting info here: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?265851-161-Weekend-Quiz-4U-(Cheranovsky-and-the-Russian-Supersonic-Bluff)/page3

 

[Maveric]

NP sky

 

[Vladimir]

Hi