April 23, 1968 carrier rocket 11А511 was launched into orbit a new spacecraft 7K-OK, called the “Union”. The ship was piloted by pilot-cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Komarov. During the flight revealed a lot of failures due to the imperfections of design, what was the reason for the reduction program. On April 24th, during the descent from orbit, the crash occurred — refused recovery system of the lander. He was broken from hitting the ground, and an astronaut, unfortunately, died. It was the first victim of manned spaceflight.
“SOYUZ” SPACE SURVIVOR
During the Second world war, 15 oil refineries of Romania gave Germany more than 7% of petroleum products supplied dependent countries and satellites. The aircraft long-range and frontline aviation periodically attacked the oil-bearing regions of Romania. However, the transportation artery connecting them with the port of Constanta, continued to operate. The most vulnerable were considered section of the pipeline laid on the bottom tier of Chernovetskogo bridge over the Danube river. 
In the summer of 1932 on the initiative of H. H. Polikarpov, who worked at the Central design Bureau began development of a promising fighter-monoplane with retractable landing gear. In may next year, the BBC confirmed their interest in the car and gave Polikarpov for the task. Six months later, the client approved the layout of the aircraft, designated the TSKB-12, and in the same month, the Council of labor and defense (STO) of the USSR adopted a decision on starting the machine received the designation I-16, in serial production.
This slogan was the basis of the life and work of one of the founders of Russian space engineer Friedrich Arturovich Tsander, who developed the 20-ies of the last century one of the first projects of the spacecraft for flight to Mars. However, he was not only a dreamer — in the early 30-ies took an active part in the development of the first domestic liquid-propellant rocket engines and rockets in the famous gird.
(Bomber-torpedo bomber Nakajima B5N). The first mention of the Japanese torpedo bombers appeared almost a hundred years ago – in April 1916, when at an aircraft factory Naval Arsenal in Yokosuka, was designed by the first aircraft of this type. In its development, took an active part Navy Lieutenant Chikuhei Nakajima, the future head of the eponymous Japanese company. However, the domestic aircraft do not generate interest from the Navy, which chose to seek the assistance of foreign experts.
The first mention of the project landing version of the aircraft, biplane, future of the An-2 is dated 1944. Then his traces are lost and emerge a year later.
The first radical modification of passenger aircraft An-24 began its military transport version of the an-26. Today this machine is so popular that without it can not do either military or civil operators, and replace her in the next five years is not expected.
In 1987, the water came down, “LUN” the first ship of the series of combat missile-carrying wig weighing 400 tons was the Chief designer V. Kirillov was. The ship was armed with three pairs of cruise missiles 3М80 or 80M “Mosquito” (NATO designation SS-N-22 Sunburn). The second “LUN” is also laid as a missile, but the outbreak of the conversion has made adjustments, and it was planned to build as a rescue.
On the globe there are numerous plots of land that has an extensive Maritime border and a significant number of inland waters. To the greatest extent meet these criteria Canada, North Eastern United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, the Caribbean, Siberia and the far East of the Russian Federation. All these and other island territories represent the most promising market for light aircraft amphibians, especially because in most of the above countries and regions already have experience of using this technique. Today in operation there are a few thousand light seaplanes and amphibians.