Russian Mystery Tailless aircraft

[hesham]

Hi,


in this book,a group of artist drawings to a real aircraft,one of them is
a mystery tailless aircraft,was it a real design or not ?,I put it here
because may be it was from the author imagination ?.


http://scilib.narod.ru/Avia/Vishenkoff/index47.html

 

[borovik]

In the text (the link Hesham) refers to the flight test aircraft Cheranovskii BICh-14.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/law1/bich14.html
Although the name of the designer and the aircraft type is not specified, but based on the above surnames test-pilots and quite detailed description of the aircraft that it should be in the book talking about the BICh-14.
But on the figure shows a different single-engined machine, although structurally similar.


Who ID this plane?

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Borovik.

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Well ain't that a BICh? ;D

 

[Retrofit]

Or its son... ;D ;D ;D
More seriously, the wing's parabolic shape surely is Cheronovsky trade mark. The two vertical fins close to (but not at) the wing tips have been selected by Cheronovsky on his BICh-5 twin-engine bomber project and BICh-7 single-engine tandem-seat aircraft, both dated 1928-1929.
But also B. Vahmistrov worked on the parabolic shape in the start of the 30s.
So is this drawing a (very bad) artist rendering of the BICh-7 or BICh general concept, a Chrenanovsky unknown development of that same period, or another designer project ??? ???