Alexander Ivanovich Putilov

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Alexander Ivanovich Putilov ( Russian Александр Иванович Путилов * April 21 . Jul / 3. May  1893 greg. In Radom , † 1979 ) was a Russian aircraft design engineer and university professor .

Life

Putilov's father was an artillery officer who retired from service in 1900 and settled with his family at the family seat in the Tambov governorate and died in 1920. Putilov graduated from the 3rd Moscow Cadet Corps (graduated in 1910) and then studied at the Moscow Technical School in the mechanical faculty , where he met Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky . In 1916, Zhukovsky sent him to the aviation computer office. Putilov took part in the planning of a wind tunnel and built the first glider with a screw with Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev .

After graduating in 1920, Putilov became an employee of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (ZAGI) in Zhukovsky . Putilov worked on the commission for the construction of all-metal aircraft. He took part in the design of the first Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev aircraft ( Tupolev ANT-2 , Tupolev ANT-3 , Tupolev ANT-4 , Tupolev ANT-5 , Tupolev ANT-6 ). In 1932 Putilov became head of the new design office at the Tushinsky aircraft plant in Moscow. He directed the construction of the series production of stainless steel passenger aircraft : Putilov Stal-2 (1931), Putilow Stal-3 (1933) and Putilov Stal-11 (1937). The development of the Putilov Stal-5 , which began in 1933, was discontinued in 1935 due to a lack of flight stability.

Putilov was arrested in 1938 during the Great Terror . Until 1940 he worked in the Sharashka , the prison-like Central Design Office No. 29 of the NKVD in the Brigade of Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov . Then he worked as a designer in other factories.

From 1943 Putilov taught at the military academy for engineers of the air force “Prof. NJ Zhukovsky ” . The mathematician and physicist Konstantin Iwanowitsch Babenko was one of his students.

From 1955 Putilov worked in the experimental design office OKB Tupolew . Putilov was involved in the development of the Tupolev Tu-98 , Tupolev Tu-126 and Tupolev Tu-128 .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f С. Д. Агавельян: Путилов Александр Иванович (accessed July 21, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c Кто есть кто: Путилов Александр Иванович (accessed July 21, 2019).
  3. ↑ Georgi Petrovich Swischtschows Encyclopedia Awiazija : Путилов Александр Иванович (accessed on 21 July 2019).
  4. ↑ Е. Л. Залесская: "ТУПОЛЕВСКАЯ ШАРАГА" В РИСУНКАХ АЛЕКСЕЯ МИХАЙЛОВИЧА ЧЕРЕМУХИНА (accessed July 21, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Putilov, Alexander Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Путилов, Александр Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian aircraft designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Radome
DATE OF DEATH 1979