The Lyulka AL-5 was a

Soviet 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 ...

axial compressor 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 ...

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 ...

developed from the

Lyulka TR-3 The Lyulka TR-3 was a Soviet axial turbojet designed after World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I ...

turbojet around 1950. It was flight-tested in a number of prototype aircraft, but was not accepted for production.

Design and development

The Lyulka TR-3A was redesignated as the AL-5 to honor

Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka Arkhip Mykhailovich Lyulka (, ; 23 March 1908 – 1 June 1984) was a Soviet engineer and designer of jet engines, head of the OKB Lyulka, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Biography He was born in Savarka village in the ...

in 1950. It was a single-shaft turbojet with a seven-stage axial compressor. It had an annular combustion chamber with 24 nozzles and a single-stage turbine. It had a fixed exhaust nozzle and had a turbine starting unit. It was used in the

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-350 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-350 (''Samolet M''), was a Soviet Cold War-era experimental fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet aircraft able to maintain supersonic speed. Design and development From 1947, work began on a new axial-flow turbojet by ...

, but flamed out when it was throttled back on that aircraft's first flight on 16 June 1951. It was also flown in the

Lavochkin La-190 The Lavochkin La-190, (a.k.a. Aircraft 190), was a swept wing jet fighter designed and manufactured by the Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1950. Design and development The La-190 was an all-metal aircraft with a bicycle undercarriage and mid set wi ...

in 1951, but suffered similar problems. The AL-5 was modified as the AL-5G in an attempt to rectify the flame-out problem, which also increased its thrust by , and was successfully flown in the prototype

Ilyushin Il-46 __NOTOC__ The Ilyushin Il-46 was a jet-engined bomber produced in the USSR during 1951-2, as the result of a directive to redesign the Ilyushin Il-42, Il-42 project (half the drawings had already been completed). The revised specification was for ...

bomber during 1952, but was not placed into production when the

Tupolev Tu-16 The Tupolev Tu-16 (USAF/DOD reporting name Type 39; NATO reporting name: Badger) is a twin-engined jet strategic heavy bomber used by the Soviet Union. It has been flown for almost 70 years. While many aircraft in Soviet service were retired af ...

was ordered into production instead of the Il-46.Kay, pp. 29, 31

Applications

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG I-350 Russian Aircraft Corporation "MiG" (), commonly known as Mikoyan and MiG, is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Begovoy District, Moscow. Mikoyan was the successor to the Soviet Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau (Мик ...

Yakovlev Yak-1000 The Yakovlev Yak-1000 was a Soviet supersonic technology demonstrator intended to evaluate the aerodynamic layout and field performance of the cropped delta wing discussed in captured German documents in combination with the new Lyulka AL-5 turb ...

Specifications (AL-5G)

Notes

Bibliography

* Kay, Anthony L. ''Turbojet: History and Development 1930–1960: Volume 2: USSR, USA, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Hungary''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, 2007 * Gunston, Bill. ''The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995''. London, Osprey, 1995

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