Ариергард.нет

Тhe Bulgarian aviation traces its origins as early as in the late XIX century. The attempts of Yorchi Sabev of Malomir village and Elisey Petkov of Khotnitza were closer to the dreams rather than to the reality. The free flight pioneers tried to construct hand-made wings to fly like birds. As expected, their naive experiments were unsuccessful as was the effort for a balloon construction in the city of Razgrad in 1880. However, these air pioneers and enthusiasts inaugurated the aviation idea in Bulgaria, which soon developed into reality.

By this time, the main achievements in the flying science were well-known in Bulgaria. Aerostatics is the first branch of this science, dealing with the devices and conditions of flying in the air of objects in accordance to Archimedes principle on the free floating. The second one is the aviation (derived from the Latin word avis, denoting bird), a science on flying which deals with the principles and construction of flying craft, lifting in the air thanks to the mechanical principles based on performing a certain quantity of mechanical work. Aviation idea’s propaganda and popularization in Bulgaria ran in parallel with the first steps of indigenous aviation science (1880 – 1903).