Museums of planning are located in places of germanation of glider sports.

Theodosian Museum of DeltaPlainerism

Modern aircraft reached supersonic speeds and space heights. But a person always had a desire to fly like a bird. All who, in the age of supersonic speeds, have retained a craving for free flight and romance of glider sports are invited by the Theodosian Museum of DeltaPlainerism.

Before the creation of such a museum in Bavaria (Germany), the museum in Feodosia was the only one in the world. The place of its location is not accidental, since Theodosius – the cradle of domestic aviation – has long -standing traditions of air sports. The 20-30s of the 20th century went down in the history of aviation, as the years of all-Union glider rams.

Since 1923, in the current Koktebel (in those years – glider) every fall from 1923 to 1935, all -Union planning competitions were held. In 1929, the highest flight planner school was opened. It was held by many famous aircraft designers: Antonov, Ilyushin, Yanovsky, future academician Korolev. Since 1937, the head of the school was A. M. Rozanov – one of the authors of the textbook popular in those years Technique and the practice of planning. The predecessor of the Feodosia Museum of Deltplanerism was the Museum of Planning and Parachutism in the village of Plaerenskoye, opened on November 14, 1970, at the initiative of the reserve of V. L. Shcherbakov.

The relevance of the creation of the museum confirmed the time – in the mid -70s, deltasular sport became a mass movement. On March 5, 1976, the first all -Union rally of deltaPlainerists was held. The targeted collection of material in the museum began in 1984. The first exposition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Deltplanerism (Deltplanerism in the USSR) was opened in March 1986, then the slide film Pages of History was made. The museum hardly accepted the receipt of new exhibits. Since 1986, various mobile exhibitions have been created, exhibited in different cities and countries.

In the spring of 1988, employees of the glider museum proposed to open a new museum, but in Feodosia. For his needs, the building of the former music school was allocated in the center of Feodosia. May 12, 1990 the museum opened. Its first director was the Feodosian Yevgeny Vasilievich Belousov-a pilot of sports aviation, director of the Museum of Planeryism in Koktebel in 1984-1990, President of the Association of Paraplanerists of the USSR (later the Association of parapaplaneries of Ukraine Soyuz) in 1990-2003, a participant in international paragraph tournaments . The museum presents exhibits from the history of deltaplanes, information about the first steps of one of the youngest types of airport in Ukraine – paragliderism. Here you can see genuine deltaplans and their models, simulators with a suspended system. (A. R. Oleshchuk)

Museums of planning are located in places of germanation of glider sports. One town of Wassercoppe (Germany), the other in the town of Harris-Hill (USA), since 1970, a museum in the Crimean village of Koktebel (Plaereneresk) had been functioning for several years.Its full name is the Gliding and Parachuting Museum. The youngest aviation museum is the museum of hang gliding in Feodosia. Why did this southern city become his birthplace? The answer is simple. He has a rich aviation tradition. From time immemorial, the townspeople, standing on the coast of the warm sea, watched the flights of gulls, the soaring of eagles over the mountain slopes. Watched and envied. There were, however, those who made their dreams come true.

The military commandant of the Feodosia port N. M. Sokovnin, in the middle of the last century, designed gliders, calculated the design of a jet airship. He laid his conclusions at the basis of the book Airship. What, if not the dream of flying, is inspired by many lines of the works of another Feodosian romantic writer A. S. Green. Pupils of the city real school, together with teachers, made, and then flew on balancing gliders built with their own hands.

With the advent of the first airplanes at the beginning of the century, the routes of long-distance flights of the first Russian aviators began to pass through Feodosia. The grandson of the great Aivazovsky, a remarkable artist and an outstanding pilot, the winner of the corkscrew K. K. Artseulov proposed to hold glider meetings in the vicinity of the city. And so the 20-30s entered the history of our aviation as the years of the All-Union glider rallies.