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The article focuses on the aerodynamic experiments of Petr Vasil’evich Miturich (1887–1956), in particular his so-called letun, a project comparable to Vladimir Tatlin’s Letatlin, but less familiar. Miturich became interested in flight during the First World War, elaborating his first flying apparatus in 1918 before constructing a prototype and undertaking a test flight on 27 December 1921—which might be described as an example of Russian Aero-Constructivism (by analogy with Italian Aeropittura). Miturich’s basic deduction was that modern man must travel not by horse and cart, but with the aid of a new, ecological apparatus—the undulator—a mechanism which, thanks to its undulatory movements, would move like a fish or snake. The article delineates the general context of Miturich’s experiments, for example, his acquaintance with the ideas of Tatlin and Velemir Khlebnikov (in 1924 Miturich married the artist, Vera Khlebnikova, Velemir’s sister) as well as the inventions of Igor’ Sikorsky, Fridrikh Tsander, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and other scientists who contributed to the “First Universal Exhibition of Projects and Models of Interplanetary Apparatuses, Devices and Historical Materials” held in Moscow in 1927.
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2024 October | 83 | 83 |
2024 September | 89 | 89 |
2024 August | 61 | 61 |
2024 July | 60 | 60 |
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2024 March | 84 | 84 |
2024 February | 53 | 53 |
2024 January | 53 | 53 |
2023 December | 47 | 47 |
2023 November | 61 | 61 |
2023 October | 37 | 37 |
2023 September | 29 | 29 |
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2023 July | 36 | 36 |
2023 June | 28 | 28 |
2023 May | 46 | 46 |
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2022 December | 23 | 23 |
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2022 October | 26 | 26 |
2022 September | 29 | 29 |
2022 August | 65 | 65 |
2022 July | 17 | 17 |
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2024 December | 79 | 79 |
2024 November | 102 | 102 |
2024 October | 83 | 83 |
2024 September | 89 | 89 |
2024 August | 61 | 61 |
2024 July | 60 | 60 |
2024 June | 51 | 51 |
2024 May | 66 | 66 |
2024 April | 70 | 70 |
2024 March | 84 | 84 |
2024 February | 53 | 53 |
2024 January | 53 | 53 |
2023 December | 47 | 47 |
2023 November | 61 | 61 |
2023 October | 37 | 37 |
2023 September | 29 | 29 |
2023 August | 23 | 23 |
2023 July | 36 | 36 |
2023 June | 28 | 28 |
2023 May | 46 | 46 |
2023 April | 44 | 44 |
2023 March | 49 | 49 |
2023 February | 4 | 4 |
2023 January | 4 | 4 |
2022 December | 23 | 23 |
2022 November | 57 | 57 |
2022 October | 26 | 26 |
2022 September | 29 | 29 |
2022 August | 65 | 65 |
2022 July | 17 | 17 |
Total | 1476 | 1476 |