The BICh-3 () was a tailless research aircraft designed and built in the

USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

in 1926.

Development

After Cheranovsky's first tailless flying wing gliders, the BICh-1 and BICh-2, he continued developing the concept with the BICh-3. The BICh-3 was built of wood with a parabolic wing having a straight trailing edge and a curved leading edge. The cockpit was faired into a large fin and rudder. The undercarriage consisted of a faired central mono-wheel with wing-tip skids. The BICh-3 was flown in Moscow in 1926. It was found to be unstable in initial tests leading to modifications that improved the handling sufficiently for it to be cleared as safe to fly.

Specifications (BICh-3)

References

* Gunston, Bill. “The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875 – 1995”. London, Osprey. 1995.

External links

* http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/RAM/bich-3.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20091027081510/http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/bich3/bich3.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20110309083324/http://jroger.net/berliweb/tcheranovsky/page_tcheranovsky.htm - archival photographs {{DEFAULTSORT:BICh-03 1920s Soviet and Russian experimental aircraft Chyeranovskii aircraft tailless aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1926

Development

Specifications (BICh-3)

See also

References

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