Cheranovsky (Cheranovskii) Aircraft and Designs

The BICh-8 Treugolnik:
 

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The BICh-10 remained a project, which served as a wind tunnel test model for the BICh-14 (TsKB-10). So far I've only got this bit of text in German to offer:
 

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The BICh-11 (or RP-1):
 

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The BICh-12 was a variant of the BICh-11:
 

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The BICh-13 (apparently, Cheranovsky wasn't superstitious!):
 

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The BICh-14 (also known as the TsKB-10):
 

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The BICh-16 was to be a man-powered glider with flapping wings, in the manner of the BICh-18.

Forum member hesham suggests the attached drawing could be the BICh-16, which seems to be confirmed by the attached photo which dan_inbox kindly submitted.
 

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Here is the BICh-17 fighter, which remained a project:
 

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The BICh-18 Muskulet was a strange biplane glider with flapping wings, apparently motioned by the pilot's legs:
 

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I have no picture of details for the BICh-19 project at the moment. There is a picture circulating on the web which displays a crescent-shaped, UFO-like jet-powered design, but it is undoubtedly a fake, so I prefer not to reproduce it here.
 
The BICh-20 Pionier was a light sport aircraft:
 

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The BICh-21 (also known as the SG-1) was a direct development of the BICh-20, larger and more streamlined:
 

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The BICh-22 glider (or Che-22), likely Cheranovsky's best known aircraft, was a radical design departure from the previous types:
 

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Almost as well-known as the BICh-22 is the BICh-23, which was evolved from it:
 

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The BICh-24 and BICh-25 were postwar projects. The design shown below is likely one or the other:
 

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Cheranovsky's last project was the BICh-26, an experimental jet fighter to be powered by the AM-5 engine and meant to reach Mach 1.7.
All the drawings, models and mock-up had been prepared, some parts had even been built already, but Cheranovsky's death in 1960 put an end to the project.
 

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hesham said:
In the book (The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft),I found under the title L.B. Kurchyevskii on pages 160 and 161 that :

he was the designer of APK series of large-calibre cannon and he
worked in USP for NKTP and he invited the aircraft constructors
to make a fighters to armed them with these guns , such as IL
and Cheranovskii BICh-17 fighters,after he was arrested there
were other two projects one from BICh design and the anther
from P.D.Gurshin at MAI.

I didn't know those projects but I suggest that for BICh,it was BICh-19,
because BICh-16,17,18,20,21 and 22 were well known.


Excellent work Skyblazer,


and for BICh-19,I suggest it was this fighter,also for BICh-16,please see;


http://modelist-konstruktor.com/v_mire_modelej/ot-ikara-do-nashix-dnej
 

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  • I can't read your text, it's too small. Can you edit your post?
  • The cannon was for the BICh-17, there is no reason to think it was for another design.
  • I have already attached your picture to the BICh-16 post, indicating that it was your suggestion. Thanks.
 
Hi Skyblazer,


the book said that exactly;


By that time it had a several other projects including BICh-type fighter with DRP guns.
 
Aside from the well-documented BICh- series, there is a handful of undesignated designs also related to Cheranovsky. Here are the ones that I know of (if any of these is not Cheranovsky's and I've made a mistake, please let me know!):
 

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hesham said:
hesham said:
In the book (The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft),I found under the title L.B. Kurchyevskii on pages 160 and 161 that :

he was the designer of APK series of large-calibre cannon and he
worked in USP for NKTP and he invited the aircraft constructors
to make a fighters to armed them with these guns , such as IL
and Cheranovskii BICh-17 fighters,after he was arrested there
were other two projects one from BICh design and the anther
from P.D.Gurshin at MAI.

I didn't know those projects but I suggest that for BICh,it was BICh-19,
because BICh-16,17,18,20,21 and 22 were well known.

Excellent work Skyblazer,

and for BICh-19,I suggest it was this fighter,


I meant BICh-15,the BICh-19 was a variable incidence biplane glider.
 
Hi,
 

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Vladimir said:

Vladimir, the first document I already enhanced and segmented within each corresponding entry.
The second document is the infamous BICh-19 fake which I warned about, and I believe it should not be in this thread...
 
borovik said:
The last two is Lippisch "Delta-I"

Of course! I knew it rang a bell... Thanks. I'm removing the pics right away. Can you remove your post? If youy do, I'll remove this one too.
 
Skyblazer said:
Vladimir said:

Vladimir, the first document I already enhanced and segmented within each corresponding entry.
The second document is the infamous BICh-19 fake which I warned about, and I believe it should not be in this thread...

Hi,Skyblazer i did not know that BICh-19 fake.. i think that it is one of the Cheranovsky's concept...
 
Vladimir said:
Skyblazer said:
Hi,Skyblazer i did not know that BICh-19 fake.. i think that it is one of the Cheranovsky's concept...

Well, I've read elsewhere that it's a fake, and I do believe it. First, you can look at the design and then look at the BICh-20. You'll see that there is quite a difference in design philosophy! The would-be "BICh-19" is virtually a flying saucer, jet-powered and highly streamlined, not very 1930s to me (the air intake, the shrouded exhaust, the bubble canopy all look much too modern to me). There was it seems, however, a real Cheranovsky design that reminded of it a bit, but it was designed later and was not as detailed as this (the bat shaped wing design which the designer holds in the first undesignated picture I shared).
 
Skyblazer said:
Vladimir said:
Skyblazer said:
Hi,Skyblazer i did not know that BICh-19 fake.. i think that it is one of the Cheranovsky's concept...

Well, I've read elsewhere that it's a fake, and I do believe it. First, you can look at the design and then look at the BICh-20. You'll see that there is quite a difference in design philosophy! The would-be "BICh-19" is virtually a flying saucer, jet-powered and highly streamlined, not very 1930s to me (the air intake, the shrouded exhaust, the bubble canopy all look much too modern to me). There was it seems, however, a real Cheranovsky design that reminded of it a bit, but it was designed later and was not as detailed as this (the bat shaped wing design which the designer holds in the first undesignated picture I shared).

i have any info about it...So i agree with You
 
Cheranovsky's aircraft family and size comparison
 

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Thanks for a great recapitulative series.
To complete it, I have this photo for the BiCh-16:

img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/dan_pub/Soviet%20Cheranovsky%20BICh-16%20ornithoptere%20a%20energie%20musculaire_zps0mdnyfxl.jpg[/img]

(the posting script of the forum seems severely unstable. Font sizes change randomly after any paste, and the attachment box has stopped working again on my system)
 

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dan_inbox said:
Thanks for a great recapitulative series.
To complete it, I have this photo for the BiCh-16

Brilliant!! Thanks a lot for this one, dan_inbox. I'm taking the liberty to also attach it to my BICh-16 post (you'll be duly credited for it of course).

dan_inbox said:
the posting script of the forum seems severely unstable. Font sizes change randomly after any paste, and the attachment box has stopped working again on my system

I think there's even more to it than that:
1°) We've lost the button that enables to see the source code of the document.
2°) There no longer is a wysiwyg display (bold, italic, etc. now appear as code).
3°) Even the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+B for bold, Ctrl+I for italics) no longer work!!!
 
From A-Z magazine.
 

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Hi to all
 

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An other picture...
 

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You made my day, folks! Thank you so much Vladimir, Maveric and hesham, for this GREAT additional material!
 
Skyblazer said:
You made my day, folks! Thank you so much Vladimir, Maveric and hesham, for this GREAT additional material!

Hi, Skyblazer
Interesting info here: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?265851-161-Weekend-Quiz-4U-(Cheranovsky-and-the-Russian-Supersonic-Bluff)/page3
 

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