| ARK-3 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Patrol flying boat |
| Manufacturer | Chetverikov |
| Maiden flight | 1936 |
| Number built | 7 |
The Chetverikov ARK-3 was a patrol flying boat built in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s for operation in Arctic waters. An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing building testing selling and maintaining Aircraft, Aircraft parts OKB Chetverikov was a Soviet aircraft design bureau headed by designer Igor Vyacheslavovich Chetverikov at TsAGI 's Menzhinskii factory in 1931 in order to produce The maiden flight of an Aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1936: Events February British Marine Aircraft Ltd A flying boat is a specialised form of Aircraft that is designed to take off from and land on water using its Fuselage as a floating hull. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 It featured a conventional flying boat hull, with high cantilever wings equipped with floats at mid-span. A hull is the body of a Ship or Boat. It is a central concept in floating vessels as it provides the Buoyancy that keeps the vessel from sinking A cantilever is a beam supported on only one end The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and Shear stress. The two engines were mounted in tractor-pusher fashion on a pylon above the fuselage. A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is a Heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating Pistons to convert An Aircraft constructed with a pusher configuration has the engine mounted forward of the Propeller - which faces in a rearwards direction - giving an appearance The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped" is an Aircraft 's main body section that holds crew and passengers or Cargo Production was halted after two aircraft broke up due to structural failure, with only seven examples having been built.
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: Three
- Length: 14. 60 m (47 ft 11 in)
- Wingspan: 20. 00 m (65 ft 7 in)
- Wing area: 59. 5 m² (640 ft²)
- Empty weight: 3,642 kg (8,029 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × M-25, 545 kW (730 hp) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 260 km/h (160 mph)
- Endurance: 7 hours
Armament
- 2 × 7. 62 mm machine guns
- 1,100 kg (2,425 lb) of bombs
References
- Gunston, Bill (1995). Bill Gunston OBE FRAeS (b 1927 England is one of the most internationally respected and published Aviation and Military Authors The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft from 1875 - 1995. London: Osprey Aerospace, p. 72-73. ISBN 1-85532-405-9.
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 254.
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