This is a biplane… with ramjets… you read that correctly. A biplane… with ramjets. And of course it’s a Soviet project.
This is an I-153bis with two DM-4 ramjets affixed under the wings and it is unbelievably stupid.
Ramjets produce no static thrust, they need speed to work….
ITS…A… BIPLANE
This is an I-153bis with two DM-4 ramjets affixed under the wings and it is unbelievably stupid.
Ramjets produce no static thrust, they need speed to work….
ITS…A… BIPLANE
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It's worth a shot, might work
So of all the aircraft for them to fit these to, even as a testing platform, to fit it to a f-ing BIPLANE…
Is pants on head moronic in the extreme.
The guy who proposed it, or the bureau guy that approved it?
They strapped two stolen V-1 cruise missile engines under the wings of an LA-9 to see how fast an augmented prop-design could get.
The noise and vibration was so bad, reports suggest it was worse than the thunder screech.