Education
Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.
Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.
Bolkhovitinov was one of the first graduates of the Zhukovsky Academy. In 1934, he designed a modernized version of the Tupolev Tuberculosis-3 bomber called the Data Base-A (long-range bomber of the academy). On August 12 of 1937, a Data Base-A attempted to fly over the North Pole to the United States of America, but the crew perished.
In 1937, he designed the "South" or "Spartak", a small sleek high-speed bomber with a long greenhouse canopy.
Two contra-rotating props were driven by a pair of Klimov M-103 V-12 engines. Development of the aircraft and its planned variants was discontinued when the war began.
In 1940, Bolkhovitinov became head of his own experimental design bureau OKB-293. Based on a plane design by Bereznyak and Bolkovitinov a few years earlier, and inspired by the attempt of NII-3 to build a ramjet powered plane, Bolkhovitinov decided to build a rocket-powered short-range interceptor.
This was the Business intelligence-1. In 1944, Attorney - General Kostakov (head of the jet propulsion institute NII-3) was arrested.
NII-3 and Bolkhovitinov"s OKB-293 were merged into NII-1, a new jet propulsion research institute. Bokhovitinov was head of research in NII-1. In 1946, his division was turned over to Matus Bisnovat, forming Zavod 293.
Bolkhovitinov received a doctorate in 1947 and became a full-time professor at the Zhukovsky Academy in 1949.
