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Good day to you, my reading friend, and… What is it? You have no idea of what the expression Sankt-Peterburgskaya aviatsionnaya nedelya means, do you? Sigh. It meant, means and will always mean St. Petersburg aviation week. Let us start again. Good day to you, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space, and the thoroughly non-wonderful Russian Empire, the peoples’ prison. The year was / is 1910. Realising the ever increasing popularity of aviation in Western

Nǐ hǎo, my reader friend, good morning. Whether piloted by a child or a master, kites fascinate. Multiform and found all over the world, these flying machines have their origins in the intense interest in flight of a certain / small part of humanity – a fascination which goes back centuries and centuries. The terms certain and small seem appropriate to me because, at all times, the vast majority of people on this Earth were / are too busy hunting albertaceratops while avoiding the charming