Lyulka
Lyulka was a USSR aero engine design bureau and manufacturer from 1938 to the 1990s, when manufacturing and design elements were integrated as NPO Saturn based at Rybinsk. The Lyulka design bureau had its roots in the Kharkov Aviation Institute where Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka was working with a team designing the ATsN (Agregat Tsentralnovo Nadduva - Centralised supercharger) installation on the Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber. Lyul'ka was responsible for designing the first Soviet gas turbine engines. Preferring to steer away from copying captured German equipment, it succeeded in producing home grown engines.
Engines
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Summary of engines built/designed by Lyul'ka
| Model name |
Date |
Type |
Thrust (kg) / Power (eshp) |
Fitted to |
| RTD-1/VDR-2 |
1938 |
Two-stage centrifugal compressor Turbojet |
500 kg estimated |
Test-bed only |
| S-18/VDR-3 |
1945 |
Axial flow compressor Turbojet |
1,250 kg |
Gu-VRD project |
| TR-1 |
1946 |
8-stage Axial flow compressor Turbojet |
1,300 kg |
Alekseyev I-211, Ilyushin Il-22, Sukhoi Su-10, Sukhoi Su-11 |
| TR-1A |
1947 |
8-stage Axial flow compressor Turbojet |
1,500 kg |
|
| TR-2 |
1947 |
|
|
projected growth version of TR-1 |
| TR-3/AL-5 |
1949 |
7-stage Axial-flow Turbojet |
4,600 kg (at qualification in 1950) |
Il-30, Il-46, Lavochkin Aircraft 190, Tu-86, Yak-1000, Su-17(1949), "Aircraft 150" |
| TR-7 |
1950's |
supersonic compressor prototype Turbojet |
|
Prototype for AL-7 |
| AL-7 |
1954 |
9-stage supersonic compressor Turbojet |
6,500 kg |
Il-54, Su-7B, Tu-98, Su |
| AL-21 |
1961 |
Axial Turbojet |
11,000 kg |
Yak-38, Tu-28/Tu-128, Su-17, Su-24 |
| AL-31 |
1981 |
Twin-spool Turbofan 0.6 bypass ratio. |
13,300 kg |
Su-27, Su-30, Su-34, Su-35, Su-47 |
References
- Gunston, Bill. “The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995”. London, Osprey. 1995. ISBN 1-85532-405-9
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