Wings of academician Byushgens

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https://doi.org/10.15421/272123

Abstract

Byushgens Georgy Sergeevich (16.IX.1916–31.VII.2013) – scientist in the field of flight mechanics and applied aerodynamics, Hero of Socialist Labor (1974). Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1963), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966), Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1961), the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001), the Prize named after N. E. Zhukovsky (1979). He developed computational methods for analyzing the dynamics of aircraft and formed the basic requirements for their stability and controllability, which played a significant role in the creation of domestic near-and supersonic aviation. He formed a scientific team of TsAGI specialists in the field of flight dynamics. The results of the scientist's work on research on control automation, non-stationary aerodynamic characteristics, dynamics of spatial motion of aircraft, methods of experimental studies of flight dynamics are summarized in numerous articles, monographs and widely introduced into practice. An innovative direction that emerged in the early 1950s is associated with the name of Buchgens: the use of computers and automation equipment to improve the complex characteristics of aircraft. Participated in the progress of space technology. Experimental studies of aerodynamic damping and unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of aircraft carried out under the leadership of Buchgens were of great importance for solving problems of dynamics. He. was the first to come up with a bold and not at all obvious at first proposal to switch to the use of an all-turning stabilizer in the control system. For many years, since 1982, he was a professor and head of the department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, chairman of the expert commission of the Higher Attestation Commission.

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2021-12-29