Landships II

Perhaps this is the sleigh that Santa uses to deal with the kids on the naughty list.

don't forget it was an NKVD vehicle, so first interrogate the little kiddies if they did their homework before getting nasty.

kieffer wrote:

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don't forget it was an NKVD vehicle, so first interrogate the little kiddies if they did their homework before getting nasty.

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My friends, please, don't forget that NKVD was not police only. System of NKVD include frontier troops, coast guard, railway troops. in this text not "snowmobile number 5 of the NKVD", but "Leningrad plant number 5 of the NKVD".

"Plant No 5 of the NKVD" was created as Shipyard for Coast Guard (Morpogranohrana) in 1933. In 1939 was renamed as "Plant No 5 of the NKVD", in march 1941 transferred into Narkomat of Shipbuilding Industry & renamed as "Plant No 5 of the NKSP".

And other photo of this Aerosleigh (marked as O2CC)

-- Edited by Aleksandr on Thursday 21st of October 2010 12:23:53 PM

-- Edited by Aleksandr on Thursday 21st of October 2010 09:26:06 PM

Russian Aerosleigh for 1917. Constructed by Lebedeff, Sikorski, Meller.

-- Edited by Ivan on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 01:01:51 AM

Ivan wrote:

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Russian Aerosleigh for 1917. Constructed by Lebedeff, Sikorski, Meller.

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Great pictures Stanislav, thanks!
Here is the Vickers "air-tractor" from the 1911 Australian Antarctic Expedition - Vickers air-tractor. That view is copyright, unfortunately, I cannot post the picture directly. It is simply a Vickers monoplane with the wings removed following damage in Australia. From The search for Mawson's air-tractor. It was not very successful, but did work briefly. With no suspension/shock absorption it was probably not a practical solution but it was the catastrophic failure of the engine in the intense cold that "killed" it.

Regards,

Steve

-- Edited by Rectalgia on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 08:01:09 AM

More pictures of the Vickers air-truck:

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=53638
http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=60214

Photographs by Frank Hurley who became one of the official Australian photographers in WW1. Second photo shows Lt. Bob Bage, who was on leave of absence from the army (Australian Engineers) and was to die at Gallipoli.

Thanks too to Aleksandr for the pictures. I have seen that second one somewhere too - when I was trying to work out the meaning of "antikfuchs" which was also in another picture posted by someone else - maybe Brett (drakegoodman). [edit]Ah, no, it was the "Antikfuchs" tag in a picture posted by Gwyn Evans in a topic started by drakegoodman - the "Souvenir Hunters" - that started me looking but I can't recall just where I came across that aerosleigh/aerosani.

-- Edited by Rectalgia on Sunday 24th of October 2010 04:08:20 AM

Here is a few more I found on the net..

-- Edited by Tim R on Wednesday 27th of October 2010 12:55:18 AM

Rectalgia wrote:

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- when I was trying to work out the meaning of "antikfuchs" which was also in another picture posted by someone else - 

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it is referring to the name of the German dealer, a certain mr. Fuchs selling photographs on Ebay and probably other auctionering platforms too, Antik to antiques.
Vickers and other aerosleigh builders: Tatra of Czecho-slovakia built one, I can post a picture some later, though it's post ww1 and may be a little of topic.
On the sailing sleigh: that was a common transport in the Netherlands around 1600.
They used them to carry freight, winters must have been harsh then.
The wheeled version, they still exist as sports versions and tourist attractions (Belgium, De Panne, same place the Belgian King Albert stayed during ww1).
Though the ancient Egyptians seemed to use them, the invention is usually related to the Flemish born scientist Simon Stevin. A true renaissance scientist, and one of the leading military engineers of his era.

regards, Kieffer


-- Edited by kieffer on Thursday 28th of October 2010 02:27:18 PM