lieutenant of the eleventh artillery brigade, military pilot popovyny. the motor bomber was designed by igor sikorskyfirst flight on december 23, 1913, its predecessor was the russian knight, it was a huge breakthrough, having lost one engine, the plane was doomed to death, sikorsky was the first to come up with the idea of ​​​​installing four engines on the biplane, yet russian aviators flew on foreign cars, mostly french. in these chronicle footage, the frenchman pegu does an aerobatics maneuver, a loop, it was our competitor. dangerous for life and even more so for such imperfect devices that could fall apart in the air, i ’m generally silent about the engine power, there are 50 horsepower, a maximum of 80 horsepower, but he really also planned to make fnesters, he theoretically calculated everything on how to do it, and he means in his army, well, he then served in the eleventh corps aviation detachment, he did it on a french building. that is, he took off and made a complete loop, ahead of him by several days. it is important that this was not only destiny, courage, even a student of gadchinsky

the first serial multi-engine bomber was designed by igor sikorsky; it made its first flight on decemberdecessor was a russian knight. it was a huge breakthrough. having lost one engine, the plane was doomed to destruction. sikorsky was the first to come up with the idea of ​​installing four engines on a biplane. and yet, russian aviators flew foreign aircraft, mostly french. in these chronicle footage, the frenchman pegu makes a figure aerobatics, a loop. this was a competitor of our pyotr nesterov, there is one small film of nesterov himself, footage of him doing a loop, it was called nesterov’s loop, no, newspapers wrote about pegu, about nesterov, even russian newspapers reported on the last pages, in which we were clearly lagging behind , so this is in pr, advertising, what is a dead loop, it turns out that the plane hangs at the top point and it can simply fall into a tailspin without reaching the peak and without completing this very loop. and it was extremely dangerous for life, and even more so for such imperfect devices that could fall apart in the air, i’m generally silent abo