Robert Ludvigovich Bartini

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (or Roberto Oros di Bartini) (1897–1974, Moscow, Russia) was an aircraft designer and scientist born on May 14, 1897 in Fiume, Austria-Hungary (now Rijeka, Croatia).

Personal life/history

Bartini became a member of the Italian Communist Party in 1921.He graduated from officer school in 1916, flying school in 1921 and Politecnico di Milano in 1922.After the Fascist revolution in Italy in 1923, he was transferred undercover to the USSR as an aviation engineer. He occupied several engineering and command positions in the Soviet Air Force and RKKA. He became the head of the department of amphibious experimental aircraft design in 1928. He was the head of the design department of NII GVF, general designer (chief designer), since 1930.

He was imprisoned from 1938 to 1946. He continued his work on new aircraft designs as a prisoner in TsKB 29 NKVD and in OKB-86 on the territory of Dimitrov Aircraft Factory and Beriev Aircraft Company in Taganrog (1946–1952), then in SibNIA, Novosibirsk. R.L.Bartini was rehabilitated in 1956.

He also published papers concerning aviation construction materials and technology, aerodynamics, dynamics of flight, and theoretical physics.

Aircraft designer

cientist

Aviation

Sergey Pavlovich Korolev named Bartini as his teacher. At various times and to different degrees, Bartini has been connected with Korolev, Sergey Ilyushin, Oleg Antonov, Vladimir Myasishchev, Alexander Yakovlev and many others. In the literature on aerodynamics there is a term (definition) "Effect of Bartini".

Engineering creativity

The method developed by Bartini has received the name " And - And " from the principle of the connection of mutually exclusive requirements, or "Both that..., And another "...

References

* [http://www.aviation.ru/Bartini/ Bartini information in Russian] Retrieved 14-Feb-2005.
* 1978. (russ. "И. Чутко "Красные самолёты". М. Изд. полит. литературы, 1978")
* 1989. The collection " the Bridge through time ". (russ. "сборник "Мост через время")
* Roberto Oros di Bartini. "Some relations between physical constants." In: "Doklady Acad. Nauk USSR", 1965, v.163, No.4, p.861-864 (In English, Russian); Originally: "Доклады Академии наук", 1965, т.163, №4, c.861-864.).
* Roberto Oros di Bartini. "Some relations between physical constants." In the collection: "Problems of the Theory of Gravitation and Elementary Particles", Atomizdat, 1966, p. 249-266, in Russian only (сборник "Проблемы теории гравитации и элементарных частиц", М., Атомиздат, 1966, с.249-266).
* Roberto Oros di Bartini. "Relations Between Physical Constants". In: "Progress in Physics", 2005., v.3, p. 34-40, (in English).