Dmitri Lyudvigovich Tomashevich

Dmitri Lyudvigovich Tomashevich
Born(1899-09-27)September 27, 1899
Rokytne, Kyiv Oblast, Russian Empire
DiedAugust 7, 1974(1974-08-07) (aged 74)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian (Soviet)
OccupationAircraft engineer & designer
Years active1922 - 1974
Known forPolikarpov I-180, S-75 Dvina
Notable work"Economic construction of Aircraft" and "Fundamentals of the design of unmanned aerial vehicles."

Dmitri Lyudvigovich Tomashevich (Russian: Дмитрий Людвигович Томашевич, Ukrainian: Дмитро Людвігович Томашевич, romanized: Dmytro Liudvihovych Tomashevych)[1] (1899–1974) was a pioneering Soviet aircraft and rocket designer, somewhat infamous as the chief designer of the Polikarpov I-180 fighter - the prototype of which crashed, killing its test pilot Valery Chkalov. Today he is less well known than his achievements deserve, in part because of the secret nature of much of his work.

  1. ^ "Aircraft designer Tomashevych: from aeroplanes to rockets | Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". kpi.ua. Retrieved 2020-10-27.