Valery Chkalov just spent a few days in Vancouver to do some setup work for the 75th anniversary of his grandfather’s milestone flight. It was a chance to discuss prospects for a 2012 international ...
Herrera Beutler’s Pearson bill heads to House floor. Following a dispute over management of Pearson Air Museum, Russian officials made sure Wednesday that their artifacts linked to the history-making ...
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — The Russians are in the news a lot lately, but in Vancouver, Russia made world headlines when it was still part of the Soviet Union. One of the most famous flights in ...
In the morning of June 20, 1937, Harry “Pat” Sutherland had a full view of from his family’s house in Vancouver. He and his brother had been listening to radio reports of a Russian transpolar flight ...
Valery Chkalov, the USSR’s most popular and also mischievous record-breaking pilot, was also Stalin’s favorite, but sadly died in tragic circumstances. Everyone in Russia has heard the name Valery ...
In the 1930s, a team of pilots headed by legendary aviator Valery Chkalov became the first to bridge Europe and the New World via the North Pole. In the early 1930s, the Soviet Union wanted to prove ...
June 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Chkalov flight—first nonstop transpolar flight over the North Pole in a single-engine airplane. This achievement proved to the whole world that the Soviet ...
Russia has invited Uzbekistan to incorporate the assets of the Tashkent-based Chkalov aircraft plant in Russia’s emerging United Aircraft (UAC). The conversion of the Chkalov plant’s shares into UAC ...
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — The Russians are in the news a lot lately, but in Vancouver, Russia made world headlines when it was still part of the Soviet Union. One of the most famous flights in ...
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