Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin Biography
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (18 (30) .03.1894), Soviet aircraft designer, academician of the USSR (1968), Colonel-General engineering services (1967), twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1941, 1957). Tsp. CPSU since 1918. In 1916 he began working aircraft mechanic.
Since 1918 the Red Army, the first aircraft mechanic, then the commissar, and since 1921 head of aircraft maintenance train. In 1926 he graduated from the Air Force Engineering Academy. Zhukovsky. In 1931, organized and headed the Bureau, whose activities are connected with the development of three types of aircraft – attack, bomber and a passenger. Ilyushin, a large number of aircraft types.
In the first combat aircraft CDB 26 (CDB-1930, CDB-Zof) had set a world record height with different loads, and in 1938-39 carried non-stop flights Moscow – Vladivostok and Moscow district – the island bowl (North America). Multipurpose IL-4 was the main long-range bomber and torpedo in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
In 1939 created an armored Ilyushin Il-2, initiating a new class of combat aircraft and created new tactics to use. Then were created Il-8 (1943), IL-10 (1943), IL-16 and the first in the history of aviation jet attack plane IL-40. Through the development of bombers after IL-4 were constructed IL-6 (1943), an experimental jet IL-22 (1946), the first domestic jet bomber Il-28 (1948), produced serially.
Passenger aircraft IL-12 and IL-14 were released in 1946 and 1951. Turboprop Multi-IL-18 (1957) has become the main passenger aircraft, and turbofan transcontinental IL-62 (1962) later became the flagship of Aeroflot.
Ilyushin has created not only the number of passenger and military aircraft, but their school in aircraft. Member of the Supreme Council of the 1 7 th. USSR State Prize (1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1952). Lenin Prize (1960). He was awarded seven Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, 5 other orders and medals. Cit.: ILs in the service of motherland, "Aerospace", 1968, № 5 and № 10, ibid, 1969, № 5 and 6; Асташенков PT, legendary designer ILs, M., 1970.