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Pyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov

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Pyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov

Birth
Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Death
26 Aug 1914 (aged 27)
Lvivska, Ukraine
Burial
Kyiv, Pecherskyi raion, City of Kyiv, Ukraine Add to Map
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Russian military pilot. The founder of aerobatics, inventor of the Nesterov loop. He was killed in aerial combat after applying a battering ram for the first time in the practice of combat aviation.
Russian military pilot. The founder of aerobatics, inventor of the Nesterov loop. He was killed in aerial combat after applying a battering ram for the first time in the practice of combat aviation.

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