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Aleksandr Mikulin

Aleksandr Mikulin

Aircraft jet engine designer

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin (Russian: Александр Александрович Микулин; 14 February 1895 – 13 May 1985) was a Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB.[1] His achievements include the first Soviet liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine, the Mikulin AM-34, and the Mikulin AM-3 turbojet engine for the Soviet Union's first jet airliner, the Tupolev Tu-104. Mikulin also took part in the Tsar Tank project.[2]

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Engines

  • M-17 - BMW VI built under licence
  • AM-34
  • AM-35 - Super charged inline 895-1007kw[3]
  • AM-37 - improved AM-35; only produced in small numbers as it was too unreliable
  • AM-38 - low-altitude engine developed from the AM-35A
  • AM-39 - higher power version of the AM-35A
  • AM-41 - used on the Gudkov Gu-1
  • AM-42 - higher power version of the AM-38F
  • AM-43 - high-altitude engine, used on Tupolev Tu-1 and Ilyushin Il-16
  • AM-44 - turbo-supercharged engine, used on Tupolev Tu-2DB
  • AM-45
  • AM-46
  • AM-47 - used on the Ilyushin Il-20
  • AM-2
  • AM-3/RD-3
  • AM-5 - renamed Tumansky RD-9 after Sergey Tumansky replaced Aleksandr Mikulin

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Alexander Alexandrovich Mikulin". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  2. [2]
    "3 early tank designs that were too ridiculous to function". in.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  3. [3]
    Dancey, Peter G. (2017-04-22). Soviet Aircraft Industry. Fonthill Media.
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