Imperial Russia's Pioneers in Arctic Aviation
In the summer of 1914 an extensive search was mounted by the Imperial Russian government for three expeditions, Sedov's, Brusilov's and Rusanov's, all of which had gone missing in the Arctic. As part of the search effort a naval pilot, Yan Iosifovich Nagurskiy, flying a French-built M...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65189 2023-05-15T14:19:15+02:00 Imperial Russia's Pioneers in Arctic Aviation Barr, William 1985-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65189 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65189/49103 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65189 ARCTIC; Vol. 38 No. 3 (1985): September: 167–260; 219-230 1923-1245 0004-0843 Aerial surveys Air transportation Aleksandrov D.N Expeditions Explorers Gidrograficheskaia ekspeditsiia Severnogo Ledovitogo okeana 1910-1915 Nagurskiy Yan Iosifovich b. 1888 Chukotskiy Poluostrov Russian Federation Novaya Zemlya info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1985 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:19Z In the summer of 1914 an extensive search was mounted by the Imperial Russian government for three expeditions, Sedov's, Brusilov's and Rusanov's, all of which had gone missing in the Arctic. As part of the search effort a naval pilot, Yan Iosifovich Nagurskiy, flying a French-built Maurice Farman floatplane, carried out an aerial search of a substantial portion of the west coast of Novaya Zemlya. In five major flights, totalling 10 hours 40 minutes in the air, Nagurskiy flew some 1060 km. This was the first successful attempt at operating an aircraft anywhere in the Arctic. During that same summer another naval pilot, D.N. Aleksandrov, attached to the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition aboard Taymyr and Vaygach, assembled his machine, an Henri Farman, at Bukhta Emma in Chukotka, but it suffered some irreparable damage during a test flight. During the expedition's subsequent wintering off the west coast of Poluostrov Taymyr Aleksandrov used the aircraft engine to power an aerosled, which was successfully used on a survey trip in June 1915. This was probably the world's first functional aerosled.Key words: Arctic aviation, Nagurskiy, Novaya Zemlya Mots clés: aviation dans l'Arctique, Nagurskiy, Novaya Zemlya Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctic Ocean Chukotka Novaya Zemlya Taymyr Vaygach University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Arctic Ocean Bukhta ENVELOPE(163.271,163.271,56.463,56.463) Chukotskiy Poluostrov ENVELOPE(-174.000,-174.000,66.000,66.000) Maurice ENVELOPE(-55.817,-55.817,-63.133,-63.133) Poluostrov Taymyr ENVELOPE(107.695,107.695,75.361,75.361) Taymyr ENVELOPE(89.987,89.987,68.219,68.219) Vaygach ENVELOPE(58.789,58.789,70.394,70.394) ARCTIC 38 3 |
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In the summer of 1914 an extensive search was mounted by the Imperial Russian government for three expeditions, Sedov's, Brusilov's and Rusanov's, all of which had gone missing in the Arctic. As part of the search effort a naval pilot, Yan Iosifovich Nagurskiy, flying a French-built Maurice Farman floatplane, carried out an aerial search of a substantial portion of the west coast of Novaya Zemlya. In five major flights, totalling 10 hours 40 minutes in the air, Nagurskiy flew some 1060 km. This was the first successful attempt at operating an aircraft anywhere in the Arctic. During that same summer another naval pilot, D.N. Aleksandrov, attached to the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition aboard Taymyr and Vaygach, assembled his machine, an Henri Farman, at Bukhta Emma in Chukotka, but it suffered some irreparable damage during a test flight. During the expedition's subsequent wintering off the west coast of Poluostrov Taymyr Aleksandrov used the aircraft engine to power an aerosled, which was successfully used on a survey trip in June 1915. This was probably the world's first functional aerosled.Key words: Arctic aviation, Nagurskiy, Novaya Zemlya Mots clés: aviation dans l'Arctique, Nagurskiy, Novaya Zemlya |
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