Comments on: America’s First Air Show http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/02/14/americas-first-air-show/ Russia History Culture Technology (and, of course, Aviation) Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:10:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dictatorship of the Air » MAKS-2007 (or, Russian Aviation: What’s New is Old) http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/02/14/americas-first-air-show/comment-page-1/#comment-14288 Dictatorship of the Air » MAKS-2007 (or, Russian Aviation: What’s New is Old) Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:22:34 +0000 http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/02/14/americas-first-air-show/#comment-14288 [...] Despite its recent origins (the first Salon was held in 1992), MAKS is steeped in history. As President Vladimir Putin proudly noted in his welcoming address, MAKS “continues the longstanding tradition of aviation parades and air show holidays that has always existed in Russia.” His statement was no boast. Tsarist Russia opened its first “International Week of Aviation” in April 1910, just three months after Los Angeles-area aviation patrons hosted the first such meet in the United States. Dozens more events were held in Russia during the years leading up to 1917. In the Soviet period, public air shows, exhibitions, and spectacles were commonplace as Communist Party leaders exploited aviation to generate public faith in (and foreign fear of) their country’s military might. [...] [...] Despite its recent origins (the first Salon was held in 1992), MAKS is steeped in history. As President Vladimir Putin proudly noted in his welcoming address, MAKS “continues the longstanding tradition of aviation parades and air show holidays that has always existed in Russia.” His statement was no boast. Tsarist Russia opened its first “International Week of Aviation” in April 1910, just three months after Los Angeles-area aviation patrons hosted the first such meet in the United States. Dozens more events were held in Russia during the years leading up to 1917. In the Soviet period, public air shows, exhibitions, and spectacles were commonplace as Communist Party leaders exploited aviation to generate public faith in (and foreign fear of) their country’s military might. [...]

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