Mikhail Leontievich Mil

Portrait of Mils on a Russian postage stamp

Mikhail Mil ( Russian Михаил Леонтьевич Миль ., Scientific transliteration Mikhail Mil Leont'evič ' ; born November 9, ^jul. / 22. November 1909 ^greg. In Irkutsk , † 31 January 1970 in Moscow ) was one of the most famous Russian helicopter engineers .

Live and act

Mil passed his Abitur in 1927 and began studying at the Siberian Technical Institute, then switched to the Aviation Institute in Novocherkassk the following year . During the semester break he worked as an assistant to Kamow and Skrshinski on his KASKR autogiro and after receiving his diploma in 1931, he joined the special designs department at ZAGI , where Kamow was also employed. There he worked on various helicopter and gyroplane projects . In 1936 he designed the ZAGI A-12 Autogiro together with Nikolai Skrshinksi. In the following year, Mil published a work on “the aerodynamics of the propeller in turns”, which was also published in German and English. In 1939, Mil was named Kamow's deputy. After the outbreak of World War II , he served for some time as an engineer in the 1st Soviet Autogiro Squadron formed from ZAGI A-7 .

In 1943, Mil became a candidate in engineering sciences and received his doctorate in 1945. Shortly afterwards he was appointed head of the laboratory at ZAGI. By then he had worked on 14 helicopter and gyroplane projects.

In December 1947 he got his own design office named after him and developed the very successful Mi-1 helicopter there . Well-known helicopters like the Mi-8 , Mi-12 and Mi-24 followed .

literature

Vladimir B. Kazakov: Mil - a chapter in helicopter history. in: Horst Skull (ed.): Fliegerkalender der DDR 1990. Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1989, pp. 67–74.
Heinz AF Schmidt: Michail L. Mil - a life for the helicopter , Flieger-Jahrbuch 1970, transpress, Berlin, pp. 119–124.

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Mil - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Article Michail Leontjewitsch Mil in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Jörg Mückler: Mil. Since 1948 . Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-613-04098-4 , p. 27 .
↑ Heinz Machatschek: Personalities of Soviet Aviation (1): WK Kokkinaki, AS Moskaljow, ML Mil in Flieger Jahrbuch 1982, Transpress, Berlin 1982, p. 42.

personal data
SURNAME	Mil, Mikhail Leontievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Миль, Михаил Леонтьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian helicopter designer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Irkutsk
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 1970
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Jörg Mückler: Mil. Since 1948 . Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-613-04098-4 , p. 27 .

[2] Heinz Machatschek: Personalities of Soviet Aviation (1): WK Kokkinaki, AS Moskaljow, ML Mil in Flieger Jahrbuch 1982, Transpress, Berlin 1982, p. 42.