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6. Small gyroscopic autopilots were designed and
tested in laboratories and on winged vehicles in
flight. Methods of calculating the dynamic stability
of winged rockets were developed.
From 1927 on, a number of young engineers,
enthusiasts in rocketry, were involved in research
and designing on jet-propelled, winged flight
vehicles. In the course of this research, their experience
and knowledge became far more profound.
As a result, in the period of 1934-39, RNII produced
highly-skilled specialists in winged rockets
who made significant contributions to the development
of Soviet rocketry.
NOTES
Under the title Razvitie krylatykh apparatov v SSSR v
1930-1939, this paper appeared on pages 179-93 of Iz istorii
astronavtiki i raketnoi tekhniki: Materialy XVIII mizhdunarodnogo
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. F. A. Tsander, "Perelety na drugiye planety," Tekhnika
i Zhizn [Technology and Life], 1924, no. 13, pp. 15-16.
2. K. E. Tsiolkovskiy, Issledovaniye mirovykh prostranstv
reaktivnymi priborami, Kaluga, 1926.
3. B. S. Stechkin, "Teoriya vozdushnogo reaktivnogo dvigatelya"
[Theory of Air-breathing Jet Engines], Tekhnika Vozdushnogo
Flota [Air Force Technology], 1929, no. 2.
4. G. Arturo Crocco, "Iperavmazione e Superaviazione,"
L'Aerotecnica, vol. 2, October 1931, pp. 1173-1220—Ed.
5. Additional information on the RP-1 rocket aircraft
appears in the paper by A. I. Polyarny in this volume and
in Problems of Flight by Jet Propulsion: Interplanetary
Flights, by F. A. Tsander and L. K. Korneev, NASA-TT-F-
147, 2 ed., 1964, 401 pp., a translation into English of Problema
poleta pri pomoshchi reaktivnykh apparatov: mezhplanetnye
polety, Moscow: Gos. Nauchno-Tekhn. lzd. Oborongiz,
1961.—Ed.
6. Additional details on the BI-1 aircraft are found in
The Soviet Encyclopedia of Space Flight, G. V. Petrovich, ed.
(Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1969), pp. 54 and 104; and in
"Red Rocket: William Green Relates the Little Known
Story of the Development, Production, and Flight Testing
of a Rocket Interceptor in the Soviet Union During 1942,"
by William Green, Flying Review International, June 1969,
pp. 79-81.—Ed.
REFERENCES
The following references, appearing at the end of this
paper in the Russian publication cited above (p. 193), are
to material in the Archives of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
1-3. See footnotes 1-3, respectively, above.
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