School of Department of Air fleet. Engineering management
| to Pass to sections: School of Department of Air fleet However the Main engineering management of the Ministry of Defence I - have refused to give out M.Gakkelju the declared monetary prize of that competition actually has not taken place, but has bought its plane for 8000 roubles. http://flaubert.ru/legenga-o-svyatom-yuliane/ It is necessary to notice that all these airplanes flied not. The Monoplane inzh. I. M.Gakkelja has made trial launch, but work of the motor did not satisfy the designer and it did not let out it more in the field. It was limited probnymvzletom and biplan inzh. Gakkelja, since. The pilot its G.V.Alehnovich has declared that at draught of the screw the device it will not be good to fly to 250 kg, bolshej draught to achieve from the motor it was not possible. Here it is necessary to notice that biplan the same design inzh. Gakkelja has satisfied all conditions of last year's military competition. It is necessary to regret that bad adjustment of the motor has prevented us to see flights neskolkousovershenstvovannogo in comparison with last year's type biplana Gakkelja. |
Competition of 1912 has begun on August, 21st in Case airdrome of Petersburg. Reports on it have been printed in several aviation magazines, and it is the most detailed in № 8... 12журнала ' Technics of aeronautics ' for 1912: ' In this competition constructed in Russia, the following has taken part in the majority Russian designers, airplanes. 
Passing to the description of airplanes participating in competition, we will begin with one of the most interesting devices of competition - with biplana I.I.Sikorsky. 
