Robert Bartini: The world’s most mysterious aircraft designer

CNN examines the life and contributions of Italian-born Soviet aircraft designer, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini.

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While Bartini’s most famous aircraft design had to be the VVA-14 ekranoplan, aircraft that he had design earlier such as the Stal-6 and Stal-7 were the best aeroplanes to have flown in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Wile being imprisoned during World War Two, Baritni assisted Andrei Tupolev in the development of the Tu-2 bomber.

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