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The Bartini A-57 was an experimental Soviet bomber of the mid-1950s that was designed by Robert Ludvigovich Bartini to take off and land on water. The aircraft was never put into production. The aircraft was never put into production.
Bartini died on 6 December 1974, in Moscow, at the age of 77. He was buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery with a grave featuring a monument with the inscription "In the land of the Soviets, he kept his oath to devote all life that the red planes flew faster than the black (ones)". Bartini had almost no contact with Italy since he had left in the 1920s.
English-language film German-language film Common source material (if any) 24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952) 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1931) The novella Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (Stefan Zweig) Addio Mimí! (1949) The Charm of La Boheme (1937, Austria)
After Bartini's death in 1974, the project slowed and eventually drew to a close, [2] the aircraft having conducted 107 flights, with a total flight time of 103 hours. The only remaining VVA-14, No. 1972, was retired and sent to the Soviet Central Air Force Museum in 1987.
A57 road, a road connecting Liverpool and Lincoln in England; A57 autoroute, a road connecting the Tunnel de Toulon to the A8 near Le Luc in France; A57 motorway, a road connecting Goch and Köln in Germany
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Aeroflot issued a requirement for two transport aircraft types. Bartini began design work in October 1934 on an aircraft to meet the larger 10/12 passenger specification. Initially Bartini intended the Stal-7 to use a steel tube truss airframe, with fabric covering, but problems with complexity and the flexibility of the truss structure led Bartini to re-design the aircraft with a light-alloy ...