🌧️ 🌷 🔉 Doctors in the blue sky 😷 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏾 🤾🏽

When mankind waged the first meat grinder war with might and main in 1918, people thought about how to save a wounded soldier (and even more people of higher rank / importance) in a better way, rather than tygydyk on a horse over bumps to a nearby hospital. Then they came up with the idea that you can use the fastest and most straightforward medium of movement for this - air. After all, an airplane, if equipped with the appropriate equipment, will be able to land in a field a hundred meters from the victim, and take him back at an amazing speed, and not shake anything out of him on the way. Solid profit. These ideas led to the creation of the aviation industry called "Air ambulance"

During the First World War, as we all know, aviation not only received a huge explosion in development, but also for the first time received a real application, in addition to tests and demonstration flights. Before the war, no one believed in the amazing capabilities of aircraft, but the war proved the opposite to everyone, and, what is most important for us, not only as a means of killing our own kind. In 1917, in the Sinai desert, one of the soldiers was seriously wounded - an enemy bullet pierced and completely crumbled his knee. The orderlies who caught him suggested the usual way - to take a camel and take a camel to the nearest railway, where the train would already pick him up and he would calmly reach the hospital. However, such a path would take 2.5-3 days, because it was about 120 km to go to the nearest railway. Therefore, it was suggested by one of the orderlies a brilliant and,Most importantly, an innovative solution is to transport him in a bomber. The DH.9 aircraft, which was located nearby, had two seats - one for the pilot, and the second for the observer (since the aircraft also performed a reconnaissance function). And therefore there was an opportunity to place a second person there - albeit in a sitting position, but still better than on a camel. And, to everyone's surprise, they did just that. They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire path from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.an innovative solution is to transport him in a bomber. The DH.9 aircraft, which was located nearby, had two seats - one for the pilot, and the second for the observer (since the aircraft also performed a reconnaissance function). And therefore there was an opportunity to place a second person there - albeit in a sitting position, but still better than on a camel. And, to everyone's surprise, they did just that. They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire journey from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.an innovative solution is to transport him in a bomber. The DH.9 aircraft, which was located nearby, had two seats - one for the pilot, and the second for the observer (since the aircraft also performed a reconnaissance function). And therefore there was an opportunity to place a second person there - albeit in a sitting position, but still better than on a camel. And, to everyone's surprise, they did just that. They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire path from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.which was nearby had two places - one for the pilot, and the second for the observer (since the plane also performed a reconnaissance function). And therefore there was an opportunity to place a second person there - albeit in a sitting position, but still better than on a camel. And, to everyone's surprise, they did just that. They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire journey from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.which was nearby had two places - one for the pilot, and the second for the observer (since the plane also performed a reconnaissance function). And therefore there was an opportunity to place a second person there - albeit in a sitting position, but still better than on a camel. And, to everyone's surprise, they did just that. They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire path from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.and a second place for an observer (since the plane also performed a reconnaissance function). And therefore there was an opportunity to place a second person there - albeit in a sitting position, but still better than on a camel. And, to everyone's surprise, they did just that. They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire path from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.and a second place for an observer (since the plane also performed a reconnaissance function). And therefore there was an opportunity to place a second person there - albeit in a sitting position, but still better than on a camel. And, to everyone's surprise, they did just that. They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire journey from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire path from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.They placed our kneeless comrade in the observer's seat and flew to our hospital. The entire journey from the place of selection by military doctors to the hospital took about an hour and left the soldier intact, albeit not completely safe (alas, a shot in the knee deprived him of his leg; but at least it did not deprive him of his life) - the journey through the familiar land would take 60 times longer , with a high probability of leaving the fighter dead.