The Sheremetev Sh-5 (Шереметьев Ш-5) was a two-seat sailplane designed by Boris Nikolayevich Sheremetev and produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.[1] It was an unorthodox design, with a pod-and-boom layout and a cruciform tail that had its horizontal stabiliser mounted atop the boom with a large ventral fin extending below it.[2] The monoplane wing was mounted high, on a pylon above the fuselage pod, and braced to the fuselage with V-struts.[1] Two open cockpits were provided in tandem, with the rear cockpit located beneath the wing. The landing gear consisted of a single sprung skid under the fuselage and a small tailwheel on the ventral fin.[2]
| Sh-5 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Sailplane |
| National origin | USSR |
| Designer | Boris Nikolayevich Sheremetev |
| First flight | 1933 |
The Sh-5 was used to establish several records during the decade, including distance records of 60 kilometres (37 mi) and 140 kilometres (87 mi) in 1933,[3] and an altitude record set by Dmitri Aleksandrovich Koshits in 1935.[4] On May 11 the same year, Koshits made a long-distance flight through the Caucasus mountains in a Sh-5 towed behind a Polikarpov R-5, covering 5,025 kilometres (3,122 mi) at altitudes up to 3,200 metres (10,500 ft) in 34 hours of flight.[5][6][7]
The Sh-5 was also produced in Turkey as an unlicensed copy by THK as the THK-9 and subsequently by MKEK as the MKEK-7 when the latter company took over the production facilities of the former in 1952.[8]
Specifications edit
Data from Krasil'shchikov 1991, 226
General characteristics
- Crew: Two
- Length: 7.68 m (25 ft 2 in)
- Wingspan: 16.00 m (52 ft 6 in)
- Height: 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)
- Wing area: 22.3 m2 (240 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 220 kg (480 lb)
Notes edit
References edit
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