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Перелет Берлин - Петербург / Flight from Berlin - St. Petersburg

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2018 · Travel & Events

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Дореволюционная Россия в фотографиях
Перелет Берлин - Петербург 
летчика В.М.Абрамовича
1912

Pre-Revolutionary Russia in Photos
Flight from Berlin - St. Petersburg
by the aviator V.M. Abramovich
1912

Музыка:
Краковяк, муз Т.Ходорковского
исп.Оркестр п/у В.Н.Кнушевицкого

Music:
Krakowiak, music, Etc Khodorkovsky
Spanish Orchestra n / a V. N. Knushevitsky

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Abramovich , born in Odessa in 1890, was an aviator, inventor and one of the pioneers of Russian aviation. He was also a member of the All-Russian Aero Club..

".....July 1 - 24, 1912 made the flight Berlin - Petersburg undertaken primarily for advertising purposes. This flight was an outstanding achievement for its time - its range was more than one and a half thousand kilometres. The plane on which Abramovich flew to Russia was very different from the “classic” “Wright”. At the initiative of Abramovich, the front elevator was eliminated on it, the tail farm was extended and, at the wheel, on the wheel, a horizontal stabiliser and elevator were installed. The aircraft control system was also changed, a wheeled chassis was installed instead of runners, a new 90-hp engine of the German company NAG was used. The plane became more stable, and for takeoff no longer needed a catapult, a wooden rail and a detachable carriage, as in the first Wright. The modified car received the designation "Abramovich-Wright......"

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