VDS Company is glad to present for you the collection “Beginning of Russian aviation”.

This is our second collection, which is gathered by photos made by the ancestor of native journalism – photographer K.Bulla, who was first in Russia being engaged in documental photographing “ of the main topic of the day, to make pictures of all, which will be necessary, high and low, not being constrained neither locality nor premise, as during the day and also in the evening with artifactural lighting”.
By this collection we would like to keep the memory about courageous people who were in the origin of aircraft industry. Indeed their unlimited wish to fly had layed the foundation to development of aluminium industry and aluminium alloy 3103N24 is the main material which is used today by VDS Company for manufacturing of advertising equipment.
It were just aviators in the beginning of XX century who first had used aluminium alloys for production of aircrafts.
In 1911 in German town Duren was produced the first lot of heavy-duty aluminium alloy called duraluminium in honor of the town. Advantages of aluminium by Duren were appreciated by Hugo Junkers, professor of thermodynamics, aircraft designer of Aachen University. As early as in 1917 from the airfield Adlershof the fighter plane J.7 entirely assembled from duraluminium profiles had got off the ground.
It was just the beginning of the triumphant progress of “winged metal” across the world and as early as 50 years after the aluminium was widely used in automotive, light industries, construction and other fields.
If in 1900 the production of light metal was about 8 thousand tons per year, 100 years after the volume of its production has reached 25 million tons per year.
Today VDS Company processes more than 900 tons of rolled aluminium per year.
 

September 1910, St.-Petersburg. First aviation week on the hippodrome of Kolomiage. Aeroplane “Farman-4” of aviator lieutenant E.V.Rudnev. Photo by K.Bulla.	September 1910, St.-Petersburg. Aviator with the crew team on a biplane before the flight. Photo by K.Bulla.	1913, St.-Petersburg. A group of military men beside an aeroplane. Photo by K.Bulla.
1910, St.-Petersburg. Aviation week. A group of aviators beside an aeroplane “Bleriot”. Photo by K.Bulla.	September 1910, St.-Petersburg. All-Russian festival of aeronautics. Aviators beside an aeroplane. Photo by K.Bulla.	The 8th of September 1910, St.-Petersburg. All-Russian festival of aeronautics. Aviators beside an aeroplane. Photo by K.Bulla.
1913, St.-Petersburg. Aviator in aeroplane “Newport” before the flight. Photo by K.Bulla	The 15th of June 1911, Gatchina. Aviator I.G.Prokofiev-Seversky in cockpit of a biplane before the flight. Photo by K.Bulla.	The 25th of April – 3th of May 1910, St.-Petersburg. Aviation week . Aviator V.F.Bulgakov in cockpit of aeroplane “Gakkel-3” by Takkel system on the aerodrome. Photo by K.Bulla.
1910, St.-Petersburg. Aviation week on the hippodrome of Kolomiage. Last control of an aeroplane “Antoinette” before the flight. Photo by K.Bulla.	1910, St.-Petersburg. Aviation week on the hippodrome of Kolomiage. Aviator and group of visitors beside an aeroplane by engineer Y.M.Takkel system. Aviator V.F.Bulgakov is in helmet, Y.M.Takkel is sitting. Photo by K.Bulla.	1910, St.-Petersburg. Military forces. An aeroplane of “Farman-4” system circled by a group before the flight. In aeroplane is an aviator V.A.Lebedev. Photo by K.Bulla.
114 The 25th of April – 3th of May 1910, St.-Petersburg. Aviation week on the hippodrome of Kolomiage. Aviator Edmond gets out an airshed in his aeroplane by “Farman-4” system. Photo by K.Bulla.	1909, St.-Petersburg. Aviator in the aeroplane by “Bleriot” system before the flight. Photo by K.Bulla.