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Russian Aeronautic Society ( Russia ) firm " Balony Kubisek " (Czech Republic )
with the support of Kiev Ballooning Society ( Ukraine)
Russian factories and Records
conducted near Kiev initial flight tests new dirigible Rosiere RDF -1 .
These tests were planned six months ago , and we decided not to carry them ,
despite the difficult situation in Kiev.
Politicians come and go , and dirigibles remain.
And our friendship aeronautic is not subject to any
political influences.
In tests were also conducted familiarization flights dirigible Au- 37
and examination and discussion of the gondola Ukrainian first dirigible .
Basic test flights were based on the flight
Kyiv Ballooning Society near the town of Makarov on the 30th kilometer
highway Kyiv -Zhytomyr .
The first flight on the new dirigible RDF -1 by famous Russian aeronaut
multiple world record holder Leonid Tyukhtyaev .
New airship refers to non-rigid aircraft
combined type , which lift design
created as a gas lighter than air ( helium is used ) and heating the air in the airship hull .
The airship is designed to perform aerial work
Observation from the air ( aerial )
patrols , as well as for training pilots .
In addition, the developers hope
that this airship will be installed
number of world records
in the recently introduced International
Aeronautical Federation (FAI)
category BM - " combined airships ."
Structurally, the airship is
non-rigid three-part cigar wrapper
lyambdaobraznym with tail ,
filled with a constant volume of air
2560 cubic meters.
Inside the shell, in the side lobes
placed along the hull
two gas-filled container
aerostatic unloading
a volume of 300 cubic meters each ,
filled with a lifting gas ( helium ) .
Bottom shell is fixed
double gondola .
Gondola mounted powerplant
consisting of engine capacity of 58 horsepower
and a three-bladed propeller of fixed pitch .
Installed on the gondola
two blocks rotary burners
for heating the air volume of the envelope .
Total capacity of the burners is three megawatts .
Up to this point in the world
not built even a single full-length
combined manned airship .
And it was such airships
predicted a great future
our great compatriot -
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky .
Work on the project airship were carried out for three years .