Vladimir Dmitrievich Spitsyn [1] ( July 6 [ June 24 ] 1847 , June 17 [29] 1915 ) - Russian naval officer, inventor who was involved in the development of aircraft heavier than air.
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Biography
From the nobles of the Oryol province, was born in the family of a naval officer. He graduated from the Second St. Petersburg Gymnasium at the age of 17. It is known that his father died before 1864, and his uncle, court adviser V. Kondrashov, wrote a request for admission to exams in the Naval Cadet Corps . In the summer of 1864, Vladimir Spitsyn made a trial voyage on the frigate " Stormbreaker " [2]
Service
September 14, 1864 he was enrolled as a pupil in the Naval Cadet Corps, since 1867 - the Naval College. On April 17, 1868 he graduated from the 31st academic performance in his graduation with production in midshipmen (he studied on the same course with future admirals - V.K. Vitgeft , Z. P. Rozhestvensky , A. Kh. Krieger, P. P. Molas ) [2] . Enrolled in the Baltic Fleet. From September 17, 1868 to May 29, 1869 in overseas voyage on the frigate " Dmitry Donskoy ." Then he was sailing in the Gulf of Finland on the battleship “ Do not touch me ” [3] .
At the end of 1869 he was transferred to the Black Sea Flotilla and assigned to the memory of Mercury corvette, on which he transferred from Nikolaev to Athens. In 1870 he served on the schooner Psezuape , standing in Constantinople. From September 1870 to April 1871 he served on the corvette “ Lioness ”. May 17, 1871 promoted to the rank of midshipman (with seniority from April 17, 1871). In the summer assigned to the monitor " Battleship " [3] .
In September 1872, Vladimir Spitsyn entered a two-year academic course at the Maritime College. March 31, 1874 he was promoted to lieutenant, and in October of the same year he successfully completed his studies [3] .
March 11, 1875 V. D. Spitsyn was seconded to the Naval Academy and served as the junior head of the department. Since May 3, he was enrolled in the staff of the school in the same position. During the summer campaigns he went on practical voyages with the students of the school, as a watch commander, on the Boyarin ships (May 29 - August 21, 1877, May 29 - August 21, 1878, May 28 - August 20, 1879, May 30 - August 22, 1880) and Gorlitsa (May 30 - August 20, 1881) [3] .
Since 1882, already in the position of senior flag officer of the Maritime College ships, the voyage on the ships Askold (May 27 - August 28, 1882) and Varyag (September 28 - September 23, 1882, May 25 - August 18, 1883) years, May 29 - August 21, 1884) [3] .
In 1886, he resigned " for domestic reasons " with the production of the rank of captain of the 2nd rank of the Russian Imperial Navy [4] .
Aeronautics activities
Vladimir Dmitrievich Spitsyn became interested in issues of " flying through the air " in the 1870s [3] . In October 1880 he became one of the founders of the Russian Aeronautics Society and was elected its secretary ( O.S. Kostovich was elected chairman) [5] . Then, with the collapse of the Society, whose charter was never approved, it became one of the active members of the VII (aeronautical department) of the Imperial Russian Technical Society [6] .
Spitsyn was a supporter of aircraft heavier than air with a flapping wing , while allowing partial use of the planning flight . Collaborated with N. A. Arendt . The aircraft models made by V. D. Spitsin were not capable of flying, and his joint request with Arendt for the allocation of funds for expensive experiments in 1885 was rejected by the Commission for the use of aeronautics, pigeon mail and watch towers for military purposes (permanent establishment at the Ministry of War ). [7]
Notes
- ↑ In some sources - Spokes and n
- ↑ 1 2 Druzhinin and Emelin, 2014 , p. 71.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Druzhinin and Emelin, 2014 , p. 72.
- ↑ Druzhinin and Emelin, 2014 , p. 75.
- ↑ Druzhinin and Emelin, 2014 , p. 72-73.
- ↑ Druzhinin and Emelin, 2014 , p. 73.
- ↑ Druzhinin and Emelin, 2014 , p. 73-75.
Links
- Spitsin V.D. On aeronautics using the heaviest air devices // Aeronautics for 100 years (1783-1883). - St. Petersburg, 1884 .-- S. 19-23 .
Literature
- Druzhinin, Yu. O. Emelin, A. Yu. Enthusiast of the “flying flight” Lieutenant Vladimir Dmitrievich Spitsyn (Russian) // Elagin Readings: almanac. - SPb. : “Hyperion”, 2014. - Issue. VII . - S. 71-78 . - ISBN 978-5-89332-243-9 .