Mikoyan-Gurevich Je-152

Mikoyan-Gurevich Je-152
The Je-166 (Je-152M) in the Museum Monino
Type:	Test fighter
Design country:	Soviet Union
Manufacturer:	Mikoyan-Gurevich
First flight:	July 10, 1959
Commissioning:	-
Number of pieces:	3

Mikoyan-Gurewitsch Je-152 ( Russian Микоян-Гуревич Е-152 , NATO code name : Flipper ) refers to a number of Soviet experimental fighter planes . A model of this series called Je-166 set three world records for speed and altitude from 1961 to 1962 .

history

At the end of the 1950s, OKB Mikojan-Gurewitsch designed the Je-150, a single-seater all-weather fighter aircraft for fighting high-flying supersonic bombers. This delta wing aircraft with a Tumanski R-15 engine was equipped with a rocket - only armament and experimented with materials that were new for aircraft construction at the time, such as titanium , which were considered necessary for the intended high speed range. The Je-152 was finally developed on this basis. The aircraft was designed as a cantilever middle- wing with delta wings . The structure was taken over from the Je-150, whose hull was lengthened and given a " wasp waist ".

The first prototype Je-152A was powered by two Tumanski R-11 F-300 jet engines, each with 38.02 kN of thrust. In order to create space for the engines, the fuselage was lengthened and widened in the stern. Georgi Mossolow carried out the first flight on July 10, 1959. The flight tests were carried out alternately by Mossolow and Alexander Fedotow until November 1960. It was possible to reach a top speed of 2500 km / h at an altitude of 20,000 meters. In 1961, the JE-152A was presented to the public in Moscow - Tushino . It continued to serve as a test vehicle until it was destroyed by a crash on January 29, 1965, in which the pilot I. Krawzow was killed.

The second model was the single -engine Je-152-1 , which initially had the same engine as the Je-150 and was later tested with different engine types. The first flight was on April 21, 1961. The following world records were set with this model:

• on October 7, 1961 a speed record on a closed 100 km route (2401 km / h, pilot Alexander Fedotow)
• on July 7, 1962 a speed record on a straight stretch of 15/25 km (2681 km / h, pilot Georgi Mossolow)
• on September 11, 1962 a world record in altitude (22,670 m altitude in level flight, pilot Pyotr Ostapenko ).

A machine designated as the Je-152-2 was to be used for tests with new weapon systems and flew for the first time on September 21, 1961. Because of the unreliability of the R-15-300 engine, the tests were discontinued in June 1962.

As the last aircraft in the Je-152 series, the Je-152M with a larger fuel supply was created by modifying the two single-engine aircraft . It received a long-range radar housed in the shock wave diffuser. The R-15B-300 engine was tested with it. It was presented to the public as the Je-166 at the Domodedovo Air Show in July 1967 , although the actual aircraft with this designation was the Je-152-1. This is due to the secrecy that the Soviet Union maintained during the Cold War .

A project called Je-152P and equipped with canards was no longer realized.

The initially planned series production was not carried out because the existing interceptors were still considered sufficient or other fighter programs were already more advanced. The Soviet Union therefore sold the design documents to China, where the Je-152M formed the basis of the Shenyang J-8 , which was mass-produced from 1968 to the early 1980s .

Technical specifications

Outline of the Je-152 and Je-152M

Parameter	Je-152A	Je-152-1	Je-152M
crew	1
length	19.00 m	19.66 m	19.80 m
span	8.49 m	8.79 m	8.97 m
Wing area	34.02 m²	40.02 m²	28.20 m²
Takeoff mass	12,500 kg	14,350 kg	14,500 kg
Top speed	2135 km / h at 13,700 m altitude 2500 km / h at 20,000 m altitude	2650 km / h at an altitude of 16,200 m	2500 km / h at an altitude of 20,000 m
Rise time	1.48 min at an altitude of 10,000 m, 7.64 min at an altitude of 20,000 m	4.4 min at an altitude of 15,000 m
Summit height	19,800 m	22,680 m	21,000 m
Range			2300 km
Engines	two R-11F-300 (each 38.02 kN, with afterburner 56.25 kN)	an R-15F-300 (67.03 kN, with afterburner 100.5 kN)	two R-11F-300 (each 38.02 kN, with afterburner 56.25 kN)
Armament	2 guided missiles

literature

• Nikolaj Jakubowitsch: Mikojan E-150 / E-152. Engine with pilot seat . In: Aviation Classics . No. 1 . Motorpresse, Stuttgart 2014, p. 50-55 .
• Frank Lemke: Versions: Mikojan E-152 . In: Fliegerrevue . No. 1 . FlugVerlag Berolina, 1994, ISSN  0941-889X , p. 49 .
• Edmund Zichosch: supersonic aircraft . Mir, 1983, E-l66-одноместный экспериментальный самолет с турбореактивным двигателем конструкции А. И. Микояна-СССР, 1961 г. (Je-166: single-seat test aircraft with jet propulsion from Mikojan), p. 148 ( Excerpt [accessed on September 1, 2017] in Russian: Сверхзвуковые самолеты .).

Web links

Commons : Mikoyan-Gurevich Je-152  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• AIMikoyan E-150. In: testpilot.ru. December 8, 2015, accessed September 1, 2017 . 
• AIMikoyan E-152, E-166. In: testpilot.ru. December 8, 2015, accessed September 1, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAI Record ID # 8511. In: fai.org. August 10, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2018 . 
2. ↑ FAI Record ID # 8514. In: fai.org. August 10, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2018 . 
3. ↑ FAI Record ID # 8652. In: fai.org. August 10, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2018 .