The Lyulka TR-1 was a
turbojet
The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine has an air inlet which includes inlet guide vanes, a compressor, a combustion chamber, and ...
designed by
Arkhip Lyulka
Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyul'ka (''Russian'': Архи́п Миха́йлович Лю́лька, '' Ukrainian'': Архип Михайлович Люлька) (1908–1984) was a Soviet scientist and designer of jet engines, head of the OKB Lyulka, ...
and produced by his
Lyulka
Lyulka was a USSR aero engine design bureau and manufacturer from 1938 to the 1990s, when manufacturing and design elements were integrated as NPO Saturn based at Rybinsk. The Lyulka design bureau had its roots in the "Kharkiv Aviation Institute" ...
design bureau. It was the first indigenous
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
jet engine.
Development
In May 1944 Lyulka was ordered to begin development of a turbojet with a thrust of . He demonstrated an eight-stage
axial-flow
An axial compressor is a gas compressor that can continuously pressurize gases. It is a rotating, airfoil-based compressor in which the gas or working fluid principally flows parallel to the axis of rotation, or axially. This differs from other ...
engine in March 1945 called the S-18. In early 1946 the
Council of Ministers
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ordered that the S-18 be developed into an operational engine with a thrust of . The TR-1 was developed in early 1946 and had its first static run on 9 August. It was tested in the air on a pylon fitted to a
Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, ...
B-25 Mitchell
The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Major General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in ...
piston-engined bomber.
The TR-1 was not a success, proving to have less thrust and a higher
specific fuel consumption than designed. Its failure led directly to the cancellation of the first Soviet jet bomber, the
Ilyushin Il-22
The Ilyushin Il-22, USAF/ DOD designation Type 10,Parsch, Andreas and Aleksey V. Martynov"Designations of Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft and Missiles."''designation-systems.net,'' 2008. Retrieved: 21 August 2011. was the first Soviet jet- ...
.
[Gordon, p. 112] Lyulka further developed the engine into the TR-1A of of thrust, but its
specific fuel consumption was very high and it too was cancelled.
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Applications
* Alekseyev I-21
* Ilyushin Il-22
The Ilyushin Il-22, USAF/ DOD designation Type 10,Parsch, Andreas and Aleksey V. Martynov"Designations of Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft and Missiles."''designation-systems.net,'' 2008. Retrieved: 21 August 2011. was the first Soviet jet- ...
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-9, USAF/DoD designation: Type 1, NATO reporting name: Fargo) was the first turbojet fighter developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich in the years immediately after World War II. ...
I-305 (izdeliye FT)
* Sukhoi Su-10
* Sukhoi Su-11
The Sukhoi Su-11 (NATO reporting name: Fishpot-C) was an interceptor aircraft used by the Soviet Union in the 1960s.
Design and development
The Su-11 was an upgraded version of the Sukhoi Su-9 ('Fishpot') interceptor, which had been developed ...
Specifications (TR-1)
See also
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External links
Early Lyulka jet engines
{{Lyulka aeroengines
TR-1
1940s turbojet engines