BICh-8

Purpose: To test the use of wingtip rudders. Design Bureau: B I Cheranovskii.

Few details of this machine have survived. It was built and tested in 1929. Cheranovskii was so distressed by the failure of the BICh-7 that he built this simple glider to see ifwingtip rudders could be made to work.

The BICh-8 was dubbed T reoogol’nik (little triangle). It had an open cockpit and centre­line skid. The wing was built as a centre sec­tion, integral with the nacelle, and outer panels fitted with inboard elevators, outboard ailerons and wingtip rudders with inset hinges mounted on small fins.

This machine may have flown satisfactori­ly, because Cheranovskii repeated tip rud­ders in the BICh-11.

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