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He was the first in the world to perform a dead loop. He died during World War I, performing an air ram (possibly also the first in history).
He graduated from Nizhny Novgorod Cadet Corps and Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg.
In the second half of the 1900s he was interested in aeronautics - he developed corrections for firing from an aerostat, built his own glider and flew it.
In 1912 he passed the examination for the title of pilot-aviator, in 1913 he graduated from the Officer's Aeronautical School in Gatchina, after which he was transferred to Kiev to the air force unit being formed there.
In 1913 he performed a dead loop over Syretsky military aerodrome in Kiev, having previously independently carried out a theoretical proof of its feasibility. In 1914 for this achievement he was awarded the Gold Medal of Kiev Aeronautical Society.
During the First World War he served on the South-Western front, took part in battles for Lvov.
He was killed in ramming of Austrian airplane. Apparently, Nesterov did not intend to shoot down an airplane at the cost of his own life: the ramming technique he was developing implied that the wheels hit the wing of the enemy airplane and theoretically made it possible to keep his own airplane intact.
