Monument in Nizhny Novgorod of the Nieuport IVG in which Nesterov performed the first loop the loop in 1913.

Pyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov (1887 -1914) was a Russian pilot, an aircraft technical designer and an aerobatics pioneer.

 Nesterov became the first pilot to destroy an enemy airplane in flight, and in 1913, the 1st to loop the loop.

On 25 August 1914, he used his Morane-Saulnier Type G to ram the Austrian Albatros B.II reconnaissance aircraft of observer Baron Friedrich von Rosenthal and pilot Franz Malina.

 Eager to destroy enemy aircraft, he probably intended to hit it with a glancing blow but damaged his own aircraft as much as the enemy's and both planes crashed.

As was common for the time, Nesterov was not strapped in and he fell from his plane, dying of his injuries the next day. The Austrian pilot and observer also died.

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