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team, which included M.S. Kisenko, A.B. Ryazankin,
G.V. Shibalov, LA. Merkulov, L.E. Bryuker and
O.S. Oganesov.
The experiment confirmed the workability of
engines of such a type; therefore, the theoretical
conclusions of B.S. Stechkin as well as of other
Soviet and foreign scientists, and primarily those of
FA. Tsander and Italian Academician A. Crocco,
were proved valid.
Having completed these first experiments the scientists
were faced with the second task: to solve the
problem of possible practical use of ramjet engines
on vehicles having scientific or defense significance.
NOTES
Under the title O pervykh ispytaniyakh v polete pryamoto-
'nykh vozdushno-reakyivnykh dvigateley, this paper appeared
on pages 109-121 of Iz istorii astronavtiki i raketnoi tekhniki:
Materialy XVIII mezhdunarodnogo astronavticheskogo kongressa,
Belgrad, 25-29 Sentyavrya 1967 [From the History of
Rockets and Astronautics: Materials of the 18th International
Astronautical Congress, Belgrade, 25-29 September 1967],
Moscow: Nauka, 1970.
1. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskiy, "Issledovaniye
mirovykh prostranstv reaktivnymi priborami," [Investigation
of Outer Space by Means of Reactive Devices], Nauchnoye
obozreniye [Science Review], no. 5, May 1903. An English
translation of this paper appears on pp. 24-59 of Works on
Rocket Technology, by K. E. Tsiolkovskiy, NASA TT F-243,
November 1965, which is a translation of Trudy po raketnoy
tekhnike, M. K. Tikhonravov, ed., (Moscow: Oborongiz,
1947).—Ed.
2. F. A. Tsander, Problema poleta pri pomoshchi reaktivnykh
apparatov: Mezhplanetnyye polety [Problems of Flight
by Jet Propulsion: Interplanetary Flights] (Moscow, 1932).
Available in English as NASA TT F-147.—Ed.
3. Rene Lorin, "Note sur la propulsion des vehicules
aeriens," VAerophile, vol. 15, November 1907, pp. 321-22;
and "Une experience simple relative au propulseur 1 reaction
directe," L'Aerophile, vol. 21, 15 November 1913, p. 514.
—Ed.
4. B. S. Stechkin, "Teoriya vozdushnogo reaktivnogo dvigatelya"
[Theory of the Ramjet Engine], Tekhnika Vozdushnogo
Flota [Air Force Technology], no. 2, February 1929.—Ed.
5. G. A. Crocco, "Iperaviazione e superaviazione," [Hyperaviation
and Superaviation] L'Aerotecnica, vol. 11, October
1931, pp. 1173-1220.—Ed.
6. Here and elsewhere, cited from papers in the GIRD
archives.