This year turned 100 years old “loop Nesterov”, better known as “Dead Loop”, in aviation – a figure of complex aerobatics in the form of a closed loop. It is a closed loop in the vertical plane. A loop is called correct if all points of its trajectory lie in the same vertical plane.

Its name – “dead” – was due to the fact that for some time it was calculated only theoretically on paper and was practically not performed. Prior to P.N. Nesterov, even horizontal turns on planes made without a roll “pancake”. His merit is that he began to use the lifting power of the wing for maneuver in both the horizontal and vertical planes. He so trusted his calculations that he did not even fasten his seatbelts to the plane before carrying out the “dead loop”. Calculations turned out to be correct and he did not drop out at the top of the loop, as some warned, – centrifugal force pressed the pilot to the seat. The first attempts to perform this aerobatics figure were carried out at the dawn of aviation on airplanes that did not withstand resulting overloads and collapsed, pilots usually did not survive. P. N. Nesterov performed a “Dead Loop” on a Newport-4 airplane with a Gnom engine of 70 liters for the first time in the world, August 27 (September 9), 1913 in Kiev over Syretsky Field. With this maneuver, Nesterov marked the beginning of aerobatics.

Jubilee medals “100 years of the Nesterov loop” were developed and manufactured at the production enterprise Heroldmaster.

Production Enterprise Heroldmaster sincerely congratulates everyone on the holiday, whose heart is not alien to heaven and aviation!

21.02.2013