If a person claims that in the early 1950s saw a flying saucer, do not rush to think that he fell into insanity.
On the miracle of surviving photographs from the personal archive of Mikhail Dubik captured the airfield base SESN on Svalbard in 1952. The pilots of jet training ' sparok ' MiG -15UTI view with amazement the brainchild of German engineers, a giant flying saucer, which they will soon enter into a training dogfight.
In one of the old German pictures we can consider the case a disk layout design and Mayer Zimmerman, built at Peenemunde to study the layout and location of weapons. In this picture the artist tried to restore the exterior of the apparatus.
So it had to be 50 -meter drive a heavily dedicated to attacks on convoys and naval squadron allies.
And although the Soviet Union had little group of Mayer sacrifice scale, it is easy to see that the devices are based on common roots.
Early sketches of the MA -6, made by Mayer, give an idea about the future of the terrible weapons of the Soviet air defense. The layout engine was not yet known.
A clear summer morning, July 16, 1951 Link La November 1619 Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Northern Fleet flew from Murmansk on routine patrol coastal areas. The first 30 minutes of flight took place peacefully, and then a master, Captain Peter Vusov noticed that the part of the New Earth at an altitude of 4000 m above sea level is slowly moving an object. ... - But, approaching nearer, I saw a strange object - a dark disc with a diameter of 20 m, unmarked, but armed with powerful guns sticking out the bottom. I have never seen such a machine, so immediately contacted the base and reported on the perpetrator of the airspace ... At this point, the disk driver apparently saw airplanes and abruptly changed course. As the patrol was fighting, Vusov decided to attack the strange object. The first phase of 23-mm shells as if it had not caused harm to the disk, and the pilot turned around and went for a second visit. Then radio came to life. Vusovu and his wingman, Lt. Ivanchenko, was ordered to cease fire immediately and, following a complete radio silence, to return to base.
At the airport the pilots are already waiting for the local NKVD accompanied by an unfamiliar silent man in civilian clothes. ... - Time was that... But I acted exactly as ordered ... But nothing happened: both pilots only ... As a kind of compensation, and ...
Next Peenemünde.
In the early 1930s, a young German aircraft designer Irma Meyer came up with a scheme of the aircraft, outwardly resembles an inverted bowl with a screw in the center of the ring. This scheme allows you to protect vital installations from possible enemy fire and to provide a platform of sufficient size to accommodate the arms. However, it was a purely theoretical scheme, and the author himself was well aware of its shortcomings. Fortunately, the talent of the young designer said his colleague - Henry Zimmerman, who dealt with unusual layouts of aircraft, of which the most promising he considered ... Mayer Zimmerman interested in the project and invited the young designer in his team. Cooperation has proved to be extremely successful - Meyer, a brilliant idea generator, a valuable acquisition.
In 1942-1943, the witnesses have repeatedly seen at the test site at Peenemunde ... In the center was a teardrop-shaped transparent cockpit. In the motion of the disk cited turbojet engines Jumo-004B with controlled nozzle, developed about 700 km / h and had a landing speed of 60 km / h.
However, the unit was extremely unstable in flight. According to the memoirs of one of the miracle survivors of concentration camps KC -4A at Peenemunde, in September 1943rd one of the drives in the test successfully took off, but due to strong winds overturned, crashed, caught fire and exploded.
Winner Takes All.
From 1943 to 1945, the team solved the problem of stability of Zimmerman ( caused by instability of the engine and the inability to accurately adjust the rod ) and designed an enlarged model of the disk.
By the spring of 1945 the project was almost ready, could only put it in the ... But it prevented the defeat of Germany in the war. To develop not got the Allies, the SS ordered to destroy all paper and engineers - to shoot. However, the designers managed to escape (not only the time to Zimmerman ).
After the defeat of Germany's allies have not found any evidence of the existence of this system, and concluded that it was another ... Soviet search teams were lucky more. The Soviet Union not only got all the documentation of this project - they found Irma Meyer and his entire team of engineers who had taken refuge in the cellar by ... ...
Hunting Forest of captivity.
In 1946, a talented graduate of the Leningrad Red Banner Air Force Engineering Academy, Lieutenant Michael Dubik has an unusual distribution. The young specialist in the proposed voluntary- compulsory to pass a test on knowledge of German language, which he successfully managed, and to sign a nondisclosure. Technical translator team Mayer Mikhail Dubik more than half a century kept the secret information entrusted to him - with the Soviet intelligence services not to be trifled. Only now he has agreed to share their memories.
... - All work was carried out in secrecy. There was a special ' sharashka ' (CSC -08) for the captured German engineers from a group of Mayer. Mechanisms for the first disc, called the ' sponge ' and the code of the MA -6, produced in different plants. For all of us ever saw a special person, one whose form is made clear - who will open his mouth, to not be good ...
Originally planned to use the familiar team of German Jumo 004V1 engine running in production under the symbol RD- 10 in Ufa aviation plant № 26. But his thrust 900 kgs for the ...
Air waltz.
The first flight took place in complete secrecy on one of the northern airports. ... - If it does not sound all that would be like an alien UFO ... The disc had a remarkable performance for its time, especially in terms of capacity and a minimum cruising speed - he could easily go to 100 km / h, making this speed maneuvers, and never dreamed that many fighters of the time. The disc could almost hover in place, making the circulation ( bearing in mind the roots of German cars, the pilots called this figure ...
After such a spectacular demonstration ... The result was the development of a masterpiece - a huge military drive, which had 25 meters in diameter, a special pilot's turret on top, radar equipment, and four gun turrets from the bottom. An enhanced version of the disc is more thrust, and rapid. German engineers, having behind him a huge experience in the development of boundary layer control, competently implemented an intense suction of air in the right places, making the whole body in the plate carrying the wing. Traction control system of three turbojet engines and deflected nozzle with variable thrust vector control (and this in 1948!) Were supplemented by lateral gas-dynamic control surfaces, which provided stability and fantastic maneuverability when flying at low speeds.
Under the roof of the coal.
The main purpose of plates should have been the destruction of the hordes of American heavy bombers, the B-29. One of the most likely routes of Americans considered a flight over the North Pole, a kind of militaristic repetition between Chkalov. It was logical to meet the enemy a little farther from the main frontiers of the Soviet Union. To accommodate the squadron needed a point belonging to the Union, but located on the line of America - North Pole - Moscow. This point was the Svalbard archipelago.
In 1948 the Soviet Union began work on the restoration of coal mines in Svalbard. From the outside it may seem odd: the lack of minerals and on the mainland, and the development and transportation of coal from a distant island in the Arctic Ocean cost the country dearly astronomically. But even the commanders of ships of trust ...
... Alarm Squadron discs quickly taking off, climbing at 10 km and using the onboard radar system pinpointing the B-29, potentially carrying nuclear bombs in the direction of Moscow. After visual detection wheels raised above the level of repetition bombers, substituting the bullets U.S. armored bottom, in places reaches a thickness of about 4 cm. And then the pilot began to ... In theory, a link from the six plates could easily wipe out up to hundreds of bombers in a single battle.
There were built and tested twelve plates - two links. The crew of each dish originally consisted of eight people: four pieces of artillery operator, radar operator, navigator, copilot and captain. Began full-scale tests. Carried out training of operators of radar, gunners, pilots training complex aerobatics. At the same time made the test plates themselves for maximum speed, range, maximum altitude ceiling. In order to preserve the secrecy of the ... It was then that has happened and the story of the patrol of La -11. On the basis of the crew narrowly escaped death was met with a severe reprimand, but was soon under orders ...
missile age.
By the fall of 1952 UFOs completed the test program, was obtained by a huge number of reports and documents.
And November 27, 1952 was established the 1st Squadron, Air Defence of North Special Purpose ( SESN ). The head of the squadron, the pilots received the playful name of ...
But in March 1953 Stalin died and the situation has changed radically. Khrushchev came to power, began to plant around their favorite rocket. By the logic of Nikita Khrushchev, a missile with a nuclear bomb could replace a battalion of heavy tanks. If an anti-aircraft missile in theory could destroy an enemy plane, then why need squadrons of MiG -15? . They were mercilessly dragged into the field ...
Not surprisingly, the same fate befell the Soviet UFOs. With all the test samples removed paneling, equipment and valuable equipment. After that, plates were flooded remains of the coast of Spitsbergen at a depth of 300 meters, where they are likely to lie still.
In 1904, Professor Ludwig Prandtl of Gottingen University, introduced the concept of the boundary layer, which gave insight into how, improving the conditions of flow, reduce the drag of moving bodies. The theoretical basis of the mechanism of wing lift provided worked before World War with the German physicists Russian professor Nikolai Zhukovsky. In the interwar period in Germany unfolded actively working to overcome the effects of boundary layer. Experimenting with different forms of aircraft, the German scientists have come to the conclusion that extraction of ... Even considered the idea of building an aircraft from a porous material that works like a sponge. The Germans even invented a special name to it Luftschwamm (« aerogubka ... The designers have suggested that to improve the manageability of such devices should remove any protruding part, whether it's wing or rudders, making the fuselage and cockpit, and wing, rounded around the suction device connected to the engine. Ideally, just obtained a form of ...
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