The competition of military airplanes at the airfield corpus. September 1913

01. Prayer at the Aerodrome among those present General A.V. Kaulbars and Chairman of the Competition Commission S.A. Ulyanin

02. Prayer at the Corpus airfield

03. Prayer at the Aerodrome among those present General A.V. Kaulbars and Chairman of the Competition Commission S.A. Ulyanin

04. Group of military at Korpusnoy airfield

05. Group of military at Korpusnoy airfield

06. Group of military at the airplane

07. The participant of the competition is aviator G.V. Yankovsky at the airplane of the aircraft designer I.I. Sikorsky

08. Aviator I.Sikorsky (right), General A.V. Kaulbars (center) in the first Russian multi-engine airplane in the world

09. Group of military at the airplane

10. Airplane Brege Militar at the start

11. General view of the airplane Russian Knight on the airfield

12. Military team at the Breguet airplane during the competition

13. A group of participants in the competition at the airfield (from left to right): engineer Kuznetsov, engineer Meller, military pilot Samoilov, pilot Gaber-Vlynsky. September 1913

14. A group of spectators at the airplane during the competition. Military pilot Samoilov is sitting

15. A group of officers at the Russian Knight 4 airplane on the left - General A.V. Kaulbars, 5-th - pilot I.I. Sikorsky

16. Hangar airplane

17. Hangar airplane

18. A group of officers at the airplane

19. A group of pilots in front of the hangar at the Korpusnoy airfield. In the first row of the 6, the left is the chairman of the competition commission S.Aulianin, 7 is the general A.V. Kaulbars

20. The participants of the competition at the airport. Among those present in the first row 4 is the chairman of the competition commission S.A. Ulyanin.

21. A group of participants of the competition in the center - pilot I.I. Sikorsky

22. The wreckage of the airplane "Russian Knight" that crashed. (A motor that fell in the air from an airplane fell on it). 1 September 1913

23. Aircraft designer I.I. Sikorsky at the Russian Vityaz airplane crashed

24. View airplane Russian Knight, crashed

25. View airplane Russian Knight, crashed

26. The wreckage of the airplane Russian knight, crashed

27. The group of participants in the competition, third from right - lieutenant fleet G.V. Piotrovsky

28. Group of contestants in the car

Comments

[Dazdranagon]

MAX 1913! Wow!

[svp67]

Quote: Dazdranagon

MAX 1913!

No, I agree. Well, what is the Moscow Aviation and Space Salon in Kiev? It’s just KVA-1913, Military Airplane Competition.

Quote: Dazdranagon

Great!

And here I agree to all 100500 !!!!!!!!!

[RONIN-HS]

Many thanks to the author of the publication.

The value of such photo documents is to show the real life of that era when a person began to master the sky. With all the static shots, thousands of details emphasize and tell the descendants what life was like then.
Generals and aristocrats - posing, priests - sprinkle, and flocks heed, hardening at attention. Artisans - they are in the background, they are not participants in the action, they service the equipment, they always lack time and almost do not notice anything around except their work. The take-off is clearly dual-purpose, yesterday - pasture, today - runway.
And my God, you are my - how unlike these real undersized people in baggy uniforms to those noteworthy handsome men from movie series, both ours and Hollywood. I just see the photographer will roll up the dark cloth, fold the legs of the camera tripod, say: "... thank you, gentlemen ...!", The adjutant of "their excellency" will shout: "... Cab driver !!!" and the general will drive off to the restaurant for lunch and leisurely discuss this new business - aviation. And ahead - 1914, and there is not far from 1939 ...
How weak man is in his foresight .......

[Koshchei]

Quote: svp67

Salon is in Kiev?

Salon in St. Petersburg, in my opinion there is still a platform "Korpusnoy airfield" if you go from the Vitebsk railway station, although ... let the Petersburgers fix it.
But Sikorsky, of course, is a Kievite.