1936 - Start of the Moscow-Kamchatka-Udd Island flight by VP Chkalov, GF Baydukov, and AV Belyakov on board the ANT-25. 1936 - Twenty Junkers Ju 52s ferry Spanish Nationalist troops from Morrocco to Spain in the world's first major ...
2008 - A British soldier and jump instructor participating in a parachute competition in Germany got hung up on the landing gear of his jump aircraft, and was rescued by the only person left on the aircraft -- its pilot. ...
Valeriy Chkalov was born on February 2, 1904 and he was a Soviet pilot and a hero of the Soviet Union. First he didn?t want to be a pilot, but in 1921 he started studying in Egorevskaya flying school, during the next 4 years he also ...
