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Could the secret projects site help you further...there are russian aviation geeks online.
I'm sorry to see that your thread has been well-and-truly hijacked. Also that some folks don't understand what blueprints (or manufacturing drawings) are. It's the same when you ask for primary source data and get the reply "I googled it".
Could you please cite your source? As far as I know, the English-built Nene engines were installed exclusively on prototype aircraft. Production MiG-15s were already equipped with Soviet-built RD-45F engines.
All Soviet copies of the Nene were produced in violation of the licensing agreement.
Many people understand perfectly well what "assembly blueprints" are. But they also realize that those who possess such blueprints (and I suspect there are very few of them) are unlikely to scan them just to share with enthusiasts. Illustrations from technical manuals are not blueprints. I can refer to a couple of issues of Russian-language aviation magazines that contain MiG-15 drawings (but not blueprints!), but they're unlikely to be suitable for the purposes of the topic starter.
The reason I did not quote the number of RR built engines is because I cannot remember how many. Flight and Aeroplane magazines of the day had numerous articles about RR supplying the engines as both the supply and the licence agreement were political hot potatod.
I did not know that. If you are referring to the VK-1 as a copy then that is not technically correct. It was developed from the RD-45 but the changes were significant and only a small percentage of parts MAY have been interchangeable. I have worked on both.
55. All of them were used either reverse engineering or to be installed on various prototypes - including Lavochkin and Tupolev aircraft.
No, I'm not. I am referring to the RD-45 and RD-45F models, which were copies, but no licensing agreement was signed. The British sold only 55 finished engines on the condition that they not be used for military purposes.
I believe this is a common misconception. By the time the Soviets purchased the British engines, they had already obtained all the relevant documentation through spies. The Party leadership deemed the license agreement impractical.
Most likely, it's just a nice legend. The composition of the alloy wasn't much of a secret; the temperature control during manufacturing was far more important - in particular, the cooling process - and it's hardly possible to reconstruct those conditions based on metal chips. With an electron microscope equipped with EDX, it might be possible to determine certain details - e.g., the composition and size of the crystalline phases. Based on those, in principle, some conclusions about the cooling conditions could be drawn, but that's possible now, not in 1946.
IIRC, the VK-1 turbine blades were thicker than those of the Nene. In addition, Soviet researchers and engineers spent a considerable amount of time and effort optimizing the temperature conditions during the manufacture of the blades.
I find it hard to imagine that the chemical composition changed significantly during heat treatment; the size and shape of the alloy's grains were much more important - both of these parameters largely determine the material's strength.
