Russian jet technology

[thebastardsword]

haha, i was watching a history channel show on how the russians obtained jet engine technology, let me paraphrase(I really wish i could remember the names, maybe kuzmich or somoene else can help!)

russia had a british airforce person(i think) visit russia for a bit of time. The place that the brit and russians were at had a billiards table(pool for those of you who dont know). the british at the time were world renown billiard table players i guess becaue they got around to playing a few games and the british guy won everytime. The russian guy made a deal with the british guy after some drinking, they played a pool game over the design of the piston jet engine. The russians won and the british handed over jet engine technology.

Interesting?

[minny]

does it just somekind of slush helium fuel?
if it is i think its a Learjet 60 i remeber hearing about in a book. im pretty sure its russian

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

And the Americans got their technology by obtaining German scientists during ww2.

[Kuzmich]

BastardSword, no offence, but the whole idea that a "righteous" British democrat would give away his countrie's secrets to an "evil" communist during that time is ridiculus. Thats a very fine example of liberal media you got there.

[thebastardsword]

Source: http://www.vectorsite.net/avredvt.html

During the 1960s, the British Hawker Siddeley company (later part of British Aerospace) developed a VTOL demonstrator named the Kestrel, which would lead to a production successor, the famous Harrier VTOL fighter. The Bristol company (bought out by Rolls Royce during the decade) developed a VTOL engine named the "Pegasus" for the Kestrel. The USSR followed the development of the Kestrel and Pegasus with interest, and in 1961 the powers-that-be had tasked the Yakovlev OKB to build a jet VTOL demonstrator, which would emerge as the "Yak-36". The Tumansky engine design bureau was tasked with taking the R27-300 turbojet, then in development for what would become the MiG-23 fighter, and developing a non-afterburning vectored-thrust version, the "R27V-300", with two to be used to power the Yak-36.

now i dont know about you, but it looks a lot like the russians somehow obtained some details on british rolls royce technology.

[WildfireFX]

Haha, nice. Cold war over a pool game.

[Naga]

Originally Posted by thebastardsword

haha, i was watching a history channel show on how the russians obtained jet engine technology, let me paraphrase(I really wish i could remember the names, maybe kuzmich or somoene else can help!)

russia had a british airforce person(i think) visit russia for a bit of time. The place that the brit and russians were at had a billiards table(pool for those of you who dont know). the british at the time were world renown billiard table players i guess becaue they got around to playing a few games and the british guy won everytime. The russian guy made a deal with the british guy after some drinking, they played a pool game over the design of the piston jet engine. The russians won and the british handed over jet engine technology.

Interesting?

Too ridiculous to be true. Noone bets jet engine drawings.

[thebastardsword]

well thats your opinion isnt it? its not like its a government gambleing the technology, at the time the technology was in the hands of a company that produced it for the government so it could easily have been sold to another country or in this scenario, perhaps a bet.

[Hot Action Akule]

i wouldnt put it past the brits....