Samolyot 5
Aircraft · Russia
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Russian manned rocketplane. Cancelled 1949. Bisnovat was assigned the project to develop an all-Soviet equivalent to the 346 supersonic rocketplane being developed by the German Roessing team in OKB-2.
Like the 346, the 5 was a swept-wing aircraft, but about 2/3 the size. First glide flight by A K Pakhomov, dropped from a Pe-8, came on 14 July 1948. The first 5-1 aircraft was destroyed on its third flight 5 September 1948. The 5-2 second aircraft, with RD-2M3BF rocket engine installed, made its first flight on 26 January 1949. After five unpowered flights, the program was cancelled in June 1949. By that time better-funded turbojet-powered fighter prototypes were already achieving the 1200 km/hr top speed of the 5. Biesnovat and Isayev would elaborate the design in unmanned form into the supersonic R-1 air-to-surface missile.
Crew Size: 1.
Related
- Family
- Rocketplane, Suborbital
- Country
- Russia
- Propellants
- Nitric acid/Kerosene
- Agency
- Bisnovat
Chronology
4 events
1948 July 14
- Samolyot 5 rocketplane first flight. - . Crew: Pakhomov. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Pakhomov. Spacecraft Bus: Russian Rocket Fighters. Spacecraft: Samolyot 5. The first 5-1 aircraft, controlled on its first glide flight by A K Pakhomov, was dropped from a Pe-8 bomber..
1948 September 5
- Samolyot 5 rocketplane crashes. - . Crew: Pakhomov. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Pakhomov. Spacecraft Bus: Russian Rocket Fighters. Spacecraft: Samolyot 5. The first 5-1 aircraft was destroyed on its third glide flight..
1949 January 26
- Samolyot 5 supersonic rocketplane glide flight. - . Nation: Russia. Spacecraft Bus: Russian Rocket Fighters. Spacecraft: Samolyot 5. The 5-2 second aircraft, with rocket engine installed, made its first glide flight..
1949 June
- Samolyot 5 supersonic rocketplane cancelled. - .
Nation: Russia.
Related Persons: Isayev.
Spacecraft Bus: Russian Rocket Fighters.
Spacecraft: Samolyot 5.
After five unpowered flights, the program was cancelled. By that time better-funded turbojet-powered fighter prototypes were already achieving the 1200 km/hr top speed of the 5. Biesnovat and Isayev would elaborate the design in unmanned form into the supersonic R-1 air-to-surface missile.