Application of large airplanes. The begun war
| to Pass to sections: Application of large airplanes Having made flights at first on skis on snow, then on wheels, and in the summer also on floats from water, ' Ilja Muromets ' has quickly made all first practical experiences and began to be shown often over Petrograd in the early spring. Its design and its flights with many passengers (number to 15) lasting some hours and at height in 2000 m and more are an example for the only thing in vsejaviatsii to which even anybody close has not approached. markovovchok.ru In the field of pure sports deserves to be noted 4th peterburgskajaaviatsionnaja the week organised by imperial aeroclub in the first of May. Here numbers of the higher school of pilotage (loops, falling on a tail and so forth) have been shown by Russian pilots for the first time: Yankovsky, Raevsky, Shpitsbergom and Frenchman Puare. Examples of rare courage and exclusive valour have been shown in the war by our pilots, both military men, and volunteers. |
Such success should pay to it of attention of military and sea departments: the factory has received the military order. And a month later ' Ilja Muromets ' has made under control of the designer flight to Kiev and back. Such flight has forced to tell about it all world. 
the Begun war has caused full mobilisation of all ' flying ' country means. Without speaking about the military men, all private pilots have gone in armijudobrovoltsami, and the imperial aeroclub as a part of six airplanes has equipped the whole aviation group. 
