Bolkhovitinov DB-A 1936 (Russia)
 
SPECIFICATIONS
Wingspan: 39.50 m ,
length:24.40
m ,
height:
8.50 m,
empty mass:
14,000 kg,
start mass:
19,000 kg
engine: 4 x AM-34FRN, 660 hp
max speed:
300 km/h
initial climb: unknown.,
ceiling:
8,000 m,
range w/max.fuel:
2,450 km,
armament: 8 xMG, 3,000kg of bombs,
Crew: 5-8

  • ソビエトの航空機設計者の中でも一般的には知られていないボルコビチノフという人が設計した爆撃機です。デザインの特徴は内側エンジンの下にラジエターを集約したので一見して識別可能です。エピソードとしては北極点通過でアメリカ大陸への飛行を試みましたが消息を絶ち失敗しています。全部で12機が生産されたと言われておりますが現物はもうこの地球上には存在しません。
 
It is the bomber which those who is called Bolkhovitinov which generally is not known in the airplane designer of Soviet designed. Since the feature of a design collected radiator under inner side engine, it can be discriminated at a glance. Although the flight to an American continent was tried by the North Pole point passage as episode, it was missing and it has gone wrong. Although it is said that 12 sets were produced in all, the actual thing does not exist on this earth any longer.
 
 
 
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