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Originally Posted by cheriz

I am quite aware of many scientists being imprisoned at that time in Soviet Union. I could provide you with a bunch of other names who spent a few years of their lives in ‘sharashkas‘ and many who never returned . I wondering whether you know that Petlyakov himself designed his VI-100 and its derivate Pe-2 in that ‘cozy’ place? All of the above people had nothing to do with the politics and never spied on their country.

if you are aware that he designed the VI-100/Pe-2 while imprisoned at TsKB-29 , then why did you indicate otherwise? I am very aware the V.M. Petlyakov did most of the design work there, that is why your original post is so inflammatory. I am not aware of any of these aircraft designers actually being guilty of any of the charges they were imprisoned for. it seriously makes me wonder if the 'OP' (original post) was designed as a fishing trip to see what would be caught.
TsKB-29 (at Zavod 156 in Moskva) was a very busy and important place, both the Pe-2 and Tu-2 were both designed there and production of the Tu-2 was also started there.

Are you aware that Tupolev was accused of selling Me 109 design to Messerschmitt?

That's a good joke ! make me laugh again !!!

It was Stalin who single-handedly ran the unfortunate nation accusing people of the most absurd and heinous crimes and it was he who made the agreement with his spiritual buddy A.Hitler. But that is the totally different discussion and it has nothing to do with aviation .

the fear and political pressure the designers were under did effect the designs, although you may not see that in casual observation.

Concerning pressurized carburetors I will bring about some details in the next e mail though to answer your question as far as I know neither American or British Merlin engines were equipped with fuel injection systems there was no need for that.

so how would US or RAF planes be able to out-maneauver the 109 if they didn't have fuel-injection? of course there was a need for it !

However the first few of the Tu-4 airplanes were build using British measuring .All of the equipment was acquired abroad and airplanes were copied to the absolutely last details including internal painting .

can you provide some more details? that is a very interesting story.

Later production was converted to metric system and that resulted in to a heavier aircrafts with somewhat shorter range.

that is also interesting, can you go into more detail?