Lyulka

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Lyulka
TypeAero-engine Design Bureau
Successor NPO Saturn
Headquarters Moscow, USSR
Key people
Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka
Products Aircraft engines

Lyulka was a USSR aero engine design bureau and manufacturer from 1938 to the 1990s, when manufacturing and design elements were integrated as NPO Saturn based at Rybinsk. The Lyulka design bureau had its roots in the "Kharkiv Aviation Institute" ( Ukrainian SSR ) where Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka was working with a team designing the ATsN (Agregat Tsentralnovo Nadduva - Centralised supercharger) installation on the Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber. Lyul'ka was responsible for designing the first Soviet gas turbine engines. Preferring to steer away from copying captured German equipment, it succeeded in producing home grown engines.

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Engines

Summary of engines built/designed by Lyulka
Model nameDateTypeThrust (kg) / Power (eshp)Fitted to
RTD-1/VDR-2 1938Two-stage centrifugal compressor Turbojet500 kg estimatedTest-bed only; planned for the KhAI-2
S-18/VDR-3 1945Axial flow compressor Turbojet1,250 kgGu-VRD project
TR-1 19468-stage Axial flow compressor Turbojet1,300 kg Alekseyev I-211, Ilyushin Il-22, Sukhoi Su-10, Sukhoi Su-11
TR-1A 19478-stage Axial flow compressor Turbojet1,500 kg
TR-2 1947projected growth version of TR-1
TR-3/AL-5 19497-stage Axial-flow Turbojet4,600 kg (at qualification in 1950) Il-30, Il-46, La-190, Aircraft '86', Yak-1000, Su-17, Aircraft '150'
TR-7 1950'ssupersonic compressor prototype TurbojetPrototype for AL-7
AL-7 19549-stage supersonic compressor Turbojet6,500 kg Be-10, Il-54, Su-7, Su-9, Su-11, Tu-28/Tu-128, Tu-98, Kh-20
AL-21 1961Axial Turbojet11,000 kg Su-17, Su-24, MiG-23, T-10
AL-31 1981Twin-spool Turbofan 0.6 bypass ratio.13,300 kg Su-27, Su-30, Su-33, Su-34, Su-35, Su-37

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