Red Wings Proposed by Robert Bartini for Sustainable Aviation
Journal: IntechOpen eBooks
Year: 2019

This chapter is a brief description of aircraft designer Robert Bartini and his role in the development of the military, passenger, and transport aviation. Robert Bartini was educated in Austria-Hungary and Italy, and graduated from Milan Polytechnic Institute. In 1923, he fled Italy to escape Fascism and emigrated in the Soviet Union. After the First World War, the young Soviet Union (USSR) desperately needed new engineers and scientists who would provide the new country with development of mod