Nesterov. Loop . From the eyewitness.

tata-ovsyanik (56)in #history • 9 years ago

Today completed its work the international aviation and space
salon in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.
In the program it was possible to see the aerobatic group "Russian knights"
and "Swifts" .
And why did it all start?
On this occasion, I want to tell you a story my grandfather about the first
performing Pyotr Nikolaevich Nesterov his "loop".

As his grandfather said:
"There would be no happiness, Yes the misfortune has helped"
September 9 2013 marks 100 years since that day.

And in 1913, Zhuravlev Ivan Spiridonovich was in the 103 infantry
the regiment supervised the ordinary.
September 9, the entire garrison of the city of Grodno was placed outside the city, where
was lined up in a cordon around a huge field.
All the soldiers were holding hands so no one else could
to penetrate to the middle of the field.

Everyone was talking about "dead loop", but no one imagined that it
this "dead loop".
One of those soldiers was my grandfather.
And he said,
he had the good fortune to see with my own eyes how Peter Nesterov flew
his flying machine in the air several times rolled over and did
"the loop".