Dmitri Ludwigowitsch Tomaschewitsch

Dmitri Tomashevich

Dmitri Ludwigowitsch Tomaschewitsch ( Russian Дмитрий Людвигович Томашевич , scientific transliteration Dmitrij Ljudvigovič Tomaševič ; born September 27, 1899 in Rakitno , Kiev governorate ; † August 7, 1974 in Moscow ) was a Soviet aircraft design.

Life

Since 1923 Tomaschewitsch dealt with the development of gliders. He graduated from Kiev Polytechnic in 1926 and then worked in an aircraft factory in Kiev .

In 1929 he moved to Moscow and worked in an OKB, first with Konstantin Alexejewitsch Kalinin , then with Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Polikarpow . He made the proposal to the Aviation Commission to build a fighter aircraft largely out of wood. This proposal was accepted. He headed the project of the Polikarpow I-180 , with the prototype Valeri Pavlovich Tschkalow had a fatal accident during the first flight on December 15, 1938.

Tomaschewitsch was then arrested and forcibly assigned to the OEA-29, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, a design office for imprisoned aircraft developers.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War , the office was moved to Omsk . There he drove the development of the I-110 fighter aircraft , which was particularly suitable for mass production. However, the advanced type failed due to the lack of suitable engines. At the same time, the attack aircraft I-111 Pegas was developed. It made it possible to manufacture a very robust machine with the simplest of basic materials, which made very few demands on the pilot. But this project was also discontinued.

After the war Tomashevich developed unmanned missiles and rockets. In 1953 and 1967 he was awarded the State Prize. In 1961 he was appointed professor and lectured at the MAI .