Boris Dmitrievich Urlapov

Boris Dmitrievich Urlapow ( Russian Борис Дмитриевич Урлапов ; born June 12 ^{. Jul} / 25. June  1912 ^greg. In Astrakhan , † 1982 ) was a Soviet aircraft designer. In 1931 he developed one of the world's first cargo gliders .

Life

Boris Urlapow was the son of Tatar and Russian. He graduated from school in Saratov , where he soon stood out for his talent for mathematics and physics. In his spare time he attended a glider club, which was led by Oleg Antonov , who later became known as a designer . There Urlapow was also involved in the design and construction of his first glider . In 1930 he finished school and moved to Moscow, where he applied to Pawel Grochowski's development office as a designer and was also hired. In 1931, at the age of 19, Urlapow was appointed head of a design department in Grochowski's office. There, in the same year, the G-63 glider was built , which could carry up to 16 soldiers in its wings with a wingspan of 28 meters. It was stored horizontally and was relatively problematic, so the aircraft remained a prototype. Only a second, two-seater model was built in 1934, which was converted into the G-31 motor glider in 1935. A little later, Urlapov was promoted to Grochowski's deputy. In 1936 he designed the high-speed fighter G-26 with a main wheel and support spurs under the wings. Since the funds for this project were canceled, this unusual aircraft was never tested.

In the late 1930s, Boris Urlapov became a test engineer and deputy chief engineer of the Soviet airborne forces . During the Second World War he was responsible for the technical organization of combat missions with gliders. Urlapov died in 1982 with the rank of graduate engineer and Colonel a. D.

literature

• Vladimir Borisovich Kazakov: The first and the last cargo sailors, part 1 . In: Fliegerrevue . No. 12 , 1984, ISSN  0941-889X .

Web links

• Cargo glider G-63 (russ.)
• Urlapov's hunter project G-26 (russ.)

Individual references / comments

1. ↑ In Germany, similar studies were carried out at the German Research Institute for Gliding at the beginning of the 1930s .