The competition for the benefit of aviation : How do people learn to fly

Has tried to seize it(him), but it(he), being shaken in convulsions, has rolled down(has slid) from a table

Hope Konstantinovna Krupsky wrote, recollecting spring and summer of 1911, the period of work of V.I.Lenin at party school near Paris in Lonzhjumo: В«.

The professor was not mistaken. As though confirming its words, young engineer V.K.Herman was accepted to construction of a glider, the design by something reminding lilientalevsky

Gradually climbing up hills above, Liliental over and over again increased also range of flight. For two years he has learnt to keep in air on some tens seconds and to make planning flights in length to hundred metres. For this time it has well mastered one of the main and difficult abilities of flight craft — stability preservation. Balancing in air — that being tightened on hands more close or further to a forward edge of a wing moving to one or other party, — Liliental has learnt to keep balance of a glider even at wind impulses

Parachutes and the first parachutists