Myasishchev M-55

The Myasishchev M-55 (NATO reporting name: Mystic-B) is a high altitude geophysical research aircraft developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet Union, similar in mission to the Lockheed ER-2, but with a twin boom fuselage and tail surface design. It is a twin-engined development of the Myasishchev M-17 Stratosphera with a higher maximum take-off weight.

Design and development

During the 1950s and 60s the United States (US) instituted several programs using high altitude reconnaissance balloons, released over friendly territory to ascend into the jetstream and transported over the Soviet Union (USSR) and People's Republic of China (PRC).

Subject 34

To combat these high altitude balloons Myasishchev proposed Subject 34 a single-seat turbojet powered twin-boom high aspect ratio aircraft—nicknamed Chaika ("Seagull" in Russian) due to its anhedral wing design. Armament of the single-seat balloon interceptor was to have been two Air-Air Missiles (AAM) and two GSh-23 cannon with 600rpg in a dorsal turret. Before Subject 34 could be developed into operational hardware, the threat receded due to the success of the Keyhole reconnaissance satellites of the Corona program, and the emergence of the Lockheed A-12.

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M17

M17 or M-17 may refer to:

M17 road (Bosnia and Herzegovina), a route in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Highway M17, a road in the Ukraine

M17 gas mask, a formerly used, United States Army gas mask

M-17 (Michigan highway), a state highway in Michigan

M.17, a German World War 1 prototype aircraft, the basis for one of the two Fokker B.II (1916)

M17 Half-Track, an anti-aircraft variant of the M5 Half-track

Messier 17 (M17), a nebula also called the Omega Nebula, the Swan Nebula, or several other names

Mikulin M-17, a Soviet copy of a German aircraft engine

Miles M.17 Monarch, a 1936 British, light, touring aeroplane

Myasishchev M-17, an early version of the Myasishchev M-55 reconnaissance aircraft

M-17 (Michigan highway)

M-17 is a 6.390-mile-long (10.284 km) state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan, connecting the cities of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County. It was once part of a highway that spanned the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan before the creation of the U.S. Highway System in 1926. The designation once extended into downtown Detroit, but the eastern terminus was progressively scaled back in the late 1960s to the current location in Ypsilanti. The changes made to the highways in Washtenaw County spawned Business M-17 (Bus. M-17), a business loop for 11 years between 1945 and 1956.

Route description

M-17 begins at exit 37 along US Highway 23 (US 23) on the Ann Arbor – Pittsfield Township border. West of this cloverleaf interchange, Washtenaw Avenue is Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) and Business US 23 (Bus. US 23). M-17 follows Washtenaw Avenue east of this interchange through Pittsfield Township and Ypsilanti Township. The street is five lanes wide through an urban area between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti running east-southeasterly. Although there are many residential areas near M-17, particularly to the south, the road itself is dominated by commercial development, including numerous restaurants. M-17 crosses into the city of Ypsilanti at Hewitt Road. This intersection provides access north to Rynearson Stadium, home field for the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Eagles football team.