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Agricultural Aviation in the U.S.S.R.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

E. A. Smirnov*
Affiliation:
U.K. of Aeroflot

Summary:

The 21st lecture to be given before the Agricultural Aviation Group of the Society, “Agricultural Aviation in the U.S.S.R.” by Mr. E. A. Smirnov of Aeroflot, was given in the Lecture Theatre on 17th October 1962. Air Commodore A. H. Wheeler, C.B.E., M.A., F.R.Ae.S., Chairman of the Agricultural Aviation Group Committee, presided.

Introducing the lecturer, Air Commodore Wheeler said how grateful the Group was to Mr. Smirnov for agreeing to talk on this subject which was of great interest to the members of the Group. Mr. Smirnov served as a pilot in the Second World War and afterwards went to the Construction and Technology Institute in Moscow and became a scientific engineer at the Engineering and Scientific Institute of Aeroflot. He was Station Manager at London Airport for two years, later becoming General Manager of Aeroflot in the United Kingdom. Mr. Smirnov was a Companion member of the Society.

Type
Agricultural Aviation Group
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1963

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