This great aircraft designer did not receive world recognition during his lifetime, although he left a noticeable mark in the history of aircraft construction, and now he is increasingly called the “secret inspirer of the Soviet space program” and even the “queen teacher”. Its fate is tragic and mysterious – not without reason Roberto Bartini became the prototype of the Bulgakovsky Woland from the Master and Margarita. His distant Arctic intelligence officer for a whole generation was ahead of his time, Steel-6 was the fastest fighter of the early 1930s, and created on the basis of the ultra-high-speed “steel-7” Far EP-2 bombing Berlin in the summer of 1941. However, Bartini himself at that time “washed the deadline” in the Gulag according to the political 58th article. Why did the Italian aristocrat communist who emigrated in the USSR (since then, in all profiles in the column “nationality” Bartini wrote: “Russian”) and became one of the leaders of the Soviet aircraft industry, was convicted as a “fascist spy”? By whose fault he served the full term (although other repressed aircraft designers about …
Author
Yakubovich Nikolay Vasilievich
Editor
Ivanov A.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
Aviation geniuses
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