Boris Cheranovsky is not as good known among Soviet aircraft constructors as, for example, Sukhoy, Mikoyan or Tupolev, but his works take significant place in history of soviet aviation. Cheranovsky was a pioneer in building soviet “flying wings”. At the beginning of the 1920-th he proposed “Vitalia” plane project. This was a flying wing of parabolic shape. Lately it became his favorite scheme.
This idea was realized in BICH-1 and BICH-2 gliders. In 1924 BICH-2 performed about 30 successful flights at Koktebel airfield in Crimea. But first engine-powered plane BICH-3 had many troubles during tests. Stability problems were solved on BICH-20 “Pioneer”. Next Cheranovsky’s project was a race plane BICH-21. It has another name – СГ-1 (“Race Plane-1”). BICH-21 was build at the end of 1939 for future soviet sport air race of light aircrafts. Tests were held up to summer of 1941.
The article about building these models will be published in Panorama magazine (Austria).
