Khrunichev T-2402 Dinosaur

[hesham]

Hi,

the Khrunichev T-2402 Dinosaur was medium/long range cargo/passenger
STOL transport aircraft,it had a high mounted tandem wing configuration
in very strange shape powered by two 3000 hp Klimov TV7-117 turboprop
engines,and its external dimensions were;span (rear wing) 27,2m (89ft 3in),
length 22,7m (74ft 6in) and height 6,0m (19ft 9in).

 

[Stargazer]

Oh, brilliant! Didn't know that Russia had also done a SMUT-type design... It looks real neat. I enclose the Scaled Composites Model 133 "SMUT" ATTT (AT³) for comparison.

 

[Silencer1]

Oh, brilliant! Didn't know that Russia had also done a SMUT-type design... It looks real neat. I enclose the Scaled Composites Model 133 "SMUT" ATTT (AT³) for comparison.

There was a predecessor of those T-2402 - Sukhoi S-80. It's designer, Grunin, later goes to Khrunicev company. Besides S-80 evolved in more conventional Su-80 cargo-passenger twin-boom aircraft.

 

[Stargazer]

Oh yeah! I remember that one! A product of a love affair between an OV-10 Bronco and Thunderbird 2... LOL
I was so in love with the design back when I saw the blue and white desktop model at Le Bourget (was that 1991?). Wish they had built it...
Thanks for this pleasant reminder!

 

[FutureSpaceTourist]

Please forgive my ignorance but it strikes me as a bit of a co-incidence that the S-80 and the ATTT have such similar and, at least to me, unusual plans?

For example, is there a particular requirement/mission profile that could lead to independent designs arriving at such an apparently similar solution, or is it likely/possible that one design has influenced the other? (I've no idea which came first!)

 

[Just call me Ray]

Dinosaur and SMUT...they were better at designing aircraft than names, weren't they?

 

[Stargazer]

He he... Well, the acronym "SMUT" was kind of an inhouse joke at Scaled Composites... Just the way the Starship prototype was called the "SCAT". I don't think "Dinosaur" was meant to be funny, on the other hand... Perhaps in Russian the word has no pejorative connotations...

 

[Hammer Birchgrove]

Isn't "Dinosaur" a NATO-codename? ???

 

[Silencer1]

Hi!

Isn't "Dinosaur" a NATO-codename? ???

In what class of aircraft?
F - for fighters, B - for bombers, C - for cargo, M - for miscelanneous, H - helicopters...
Is there any other code letters?
I think, that is to generous to assign codename for unbuilt aircraft of unconventional design.

 

[Hammer Birchgrove]

Hmmm...