The significance of A.F. Mozhayskiy in the history of aircraft construction

In: Voprosy istorii: VI = Studies in history, Band 2023, Heft 3-2, S. 94-107

Abstract

During the formation of world aviation, the personal factor was of great importance. History preserves the names of aviation pioneers who tried to realize the dream of human flight. Especially significant today is the origin and development of mechanical (aerodynamic) flight methods. And the role of scientists who have laid the knowledge base on the flight of fixed-wing aircraft (airplanes) is paramount here. We know and remember those whom success has not spared. But hundreds of crashed and ruined, but not conquered aircraft designers still remain in the shadow of history. Therefore, research is still relevant about those whom we should still consider the first, and about those who repeated and improved the principles of human flight on heavier-than-air vehicles.