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 To mark the 100th anniversary of Valery Chkalov and 75th anniversary of his legendary flight beneath the Troitski bridge in Leningrad (for which he was arrested), the worlds first hot-air airship flight under the Ukranian bridge Running Deer was made. However this time everything was legal and approved by local authorities.
To the elated cheers of viewers, leisurely the AV-1 hot-air airship twice went under the bridge. The event took place within the VIII international festival Air Fellowship 2004.
The well-known among lovers of extreme sports Running Deer bridge 56 metres high arches over the Smotrich river in the Ukrainian town Kamenets-Podolsky. Now, after the sensation is made, the only thing left to do is to wait for the publication in the Guinness Book of Records.
The first Russian hot-air airship Eagle Owl was built in 1994 by the Czech company Kubicek Balloons on the order of the Augur Aeronautical Centre. This airship is designed to accommodate two persons. It is 32 metres long, volume of the envelope is 2350 cubic metres. For 10 years the red airship has been an adornment of the Russian sky.
The AV-1 became famous when in 2004 set a world record in flight endurance. It was flown by the Russian balloonist Nikolay Galkin. Nikolay Galkin is 33 years old, he was born and still lives in a town of Zhukovsky in the Moscow region. In 2002 he obtained a licence of a free aerostat and airship pilot and holds a post of a deputy chief designer at the Augur Aeronautical Centre.
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