Alexei Andreevich Borovkov

Alexei Borowkow (1930s)

Alexei Borowkow ( Russian Алексей Андреевич Боровков ., Wiss transliteration Alexei Andreevič Borovkov ; * 1903 ; † 1945 ) was a Soviet aircraft designer .

life and work

In 1935, Borowkow and Ilya Florentjewitsch Florow designed an unusual biplane aircraft that managed without wing struts, the Borowkow-Florow I-207 . After the appropriate preparations, the machine should go into production. To this end, he and Florow became chief designer of the OKB-207, which was founded in Dolgoprudnyi in autumn 1938.

Later Borowkow dealt with ramjet engines . A fighter aircraft based on this experience, the Borowkow-Florow BF-D , which had a piston engine and two vertical stabilizers and integrated ramjet engines, was in development. This extremely advanced design already had an arrow-shaped structure.

In July 1941, after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War , the development office had to be evacuated. The almost completed dummy was lost. The project has been discontinued.

Borowkow was killed in an airplane accident in early 1945.

Web links

Commons : Alexei Borowkow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexei Andrejewitsch Borowkow on mirslovarei.com (Russian)