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The Sheremetev Sh-5 (Шереметьев Ш-5) was a two-seat sailplane designed by Boris Nikolayevich Sheremetev and produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. It was an unorthodox design, with a pod-and-boom layout and a cruciform tail that had its horizontal stabiliser mounted atop the boom with a large ventral fin extending below it. The monoplane wing was mounted high, on a pylon above the fuselage pod, and braced to the fuselage with V-struts. Two open cockpits were provided in tandem, with the rear cockpit located beneath the wing. The landing gear consisted of a single sprung skid under the fuselage and a small tailwheel on the ventral fin.

The Sh-5 was used to establish several records during the decade, including distance records of 60 kilometres (37 mi) and 140 kilometres (87 mi) in 1933, and an altitude record set by Dmitri Aleksandrovich Koshits in 1935. On May 11 the same year, Koshits made a long-distance flight through the Caucasus mountains in a Sh-5 towed behind a Polikarpov R-5, covering 5,025 kilometres (3,122 mi) at altitudes up to 3,200 metres (10,500 ft) in 34 hours of flight.

The Sh-5 was also produced in Turkey as an unlicensed copy by THK as the THK-9 and subsequently by MKEK as the MKEK-7 when the latter company took over the production facilities of the former in 1952.

Specifications

Data from Krasil'shchikov 1991, 226

General characteristics

• Crew: Two
• Length: 7.68 m (25 ft 2 in)
• Wingspan: 16.00 m (52 ft 6 in)
• Height: 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 22.3 m (240 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 220 kg (480 lb)

Notes

1. ^ Shushurin 1938, 4
2. ^ Krasil'shchikov 1991, 98
3. Kozlov 1980
4. Мемориал Д.А.Кошиц
5. Как начинались планерные состязания?
6. Rodionov 1997
7. История советского планеризма
8. Deniz 2004

References

• Deniz, Tuncay (2004). Turkish Aircraft Production. Munich: Levent Başara.
• Kozlov, N. (1980). "Как Сделать Модели Планеров". Юный Техник (8).
• Krasil'shchikov, Aleksandr Petrovich (1991). Planery SSSR (Gliders of the USSR). Moscow: Moskva Mashinostroyeniye.
• Rodionov, Ivan I. (1997). "Становление авиастроения в СССР: 1935". Russian Aviation Page. Archived from the original on 2008-03-05. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
• Shushurin, V.V. (1938). Atlas konstruktzii planerov (Directory of glider construction). Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo oboronnoi promyshlennosti.
• "История советского планеризма". Paravia. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
• "Как начинались планерные состязания?". PARASHUTIST.RU. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
• "Мемориал Д.А.Кошиц". Испытатели. Retrieved 2008-11-04.

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