Ivan Ivanovich Machonin

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Ivan Ivanovich Machonin (1928)

Ivan Ivanovich Machonin ( Russian Иван Иванович Махонин , double . Yvan Makhonine * 1885 in Saint Petersburg ; † 9. July 1973 in France ) was a Russian aircraft designer and inventor in the fields of aerospace and mechanical engineering, manufacture of weapons and cracking .

Life

Machonin graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Polytechnic Institute in Saint Petersburg . At the beginning of the 20th century he set up a development office for aircraft weapons in Saint Petersburg.

After the October Revolution , he proposed a number of projects for the further development of rail and air transport. In 1919, according to his design, three locomotives with internal combustion engines were built at the Mytishchi plant, using unrefined petroleum as fuel. These motors supplied the electricity for the electric traction motors of the locomotives. In 1920, the Supreme Council of National Economy of the RSFSR ( ВСНХ РСФСР ) approved its project of an electric train powered only by accumulators. The train was built in the Baltic plant from three converted former motor vehicles from the Nikolaibahn . The accumulators (264 pieces with 7500 A / h ) came from former submarines . On October 12, 1920, the train developed by Ivan Machonin left the station in Petrograd at 8.15 a.m. and reached Moscow after a journey time of 12 hours at an average speed of 60 wersten per hour (approx. 64 km / h) . There were five train stops along the way. The accumulators had to be charged once en route.

Machonin then worked on an airship with a carrying capacity of 60,000 poods (approx. 982 tons). This should be equipped with an airplane (monoplane or double-decker), a car and a submarine, offer space for 1000 passengers and reach a speed of 100 wersten per hour (approx. 107 km / h). According to the plan, the construction of the airship should be completed on May 1, 1921. Since it was impossible to finance such projects in the post-revolutionary era under Lenin , he was forced to leave his homeland and emigrated to France in 1921 at the age of 36 .

In France

Various projects were started after his emigration to France. (Selection):

In the 1920s
In the 1930s
  • Mak.10 : Test aircraft with telescopic wing and Lorraine 12Eb engine developed by Machonin together with F. J. Rey from the beginning of the 1920s. By extending the outer wings, the wingspan could be increased from 13 to 21 meters, the wing area increased from 21 m² to 33 m². The first flight took place on August 11, 1931. The flight performance left a lot to be desired due to the weak drive. Machonin therefore turned to the French government for financial support. The funds were approved and so it was possible to modernize the model by installing a more powerful Gnôme-Rhône-K-14 engine to make the Mak.101 , which first flew in 1935.
In the 1940s

The tests with the Mak.101 were continued under German administration. When the aircraft was to be transferred to the Air Force test center in Rechlin for further testing , it was deliberately crash landed by the French test pilot Burtin. After the Second World War, Machonin built the Mak.123 , equipped with a BMW 801 engine, on behalf of the French Aviation Ministry , the wing area of ​​which could be increased from 20 m² to 36.50 m². The first flight took place around 1947. After a crash landing due to an engine failure, development was stopped.

In the 1950s and 1960s

On April 24, 1951, he received United States Patent 2550278 for Variable surface wings and tail fins in flying machines .

24 inventions in the field of cracking .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stvolinsky Ju. M .: Konstruktory podvodnych korablej: Dokumental'nye rasskazy o sozdateljach sovetskogo flota morskich glubin. Lenizdat, Leningrad 1984. / Стволинский Ю. М .: Конструкторы подводных кораблей: Документальные рассказы о создателях советского флота морскихх Лениздат, Ленинград 1984.
  2. ↑ История электрификации железных дорог ( History of the electrification of the railroad ) on electrolibrary.info (Russian); Reviewed November 12, 2011
  3. ↑ Novyj grandioznyj vozdušnyj Korabl ' . Kommuna, November 5, 1920. / Новый грандиозный воздушный корабль. Коммуна, 5 ноября 1920.
  4. ^ Machonin's biography on the official website of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian); Reviewed November 12, 2011
  5. ↑ a b Gerhard Morgenroth: The variables - the development to the swivel wing. 1st part in Flieger Revue 11/79 (321), p. 462
  6. ↑ Detlev Grass: From telescopic to swivel wing in military history books - swivel wing aircraft. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin, 1990. ISBN 3-327-00934-1 . P. 5/6
  7. ↑ Article about the Mak.123 on airwar.ru
  8. ↑ Patent Overview - Variable surface wings and tail fins in flying machines ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archpatent.com
personal data
SURNAME Machonin, Ivan Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Махонин, Иван Иванович (Russian); Yvan Makhonine (French)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian aircraft designer and inventor (cracking)
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1973
Place of death France