<b><i>Parolyot (Steam Flyer)</i></b>, a project of a jet-propelled aircraft designed by the engineer from Kiev Feodor Geshvend (1839—1890).<br>The outline from a brochure by F. Geshvend.<br><br><b>Technical characteristics of <i>Parolyot</i> (expected by the inventor):</b><br><b>Configuration:</b> tailless biplane with oval wings; framework of metal tubes, covering of metal (fuselage) and of linen (wings). <br><b>Wingspan:</b> 3.0 m. <br><b>Wing area:</b> 32.5 m².<br><b>Loaded weight:</b> circa 1300 kg.<br><b>Takeoff speed:</b> 116 km/h.<br><b>Max speed:</b> 280 km/h.<br><b>Power plant:</b> steam jet engine (the aircraft was supposed to be propelled with the jet of steam generated in a tube boiler).<br><b>Thrust:</b> 1300 kg (according the estimation of V.S. Mikhaylov (1980) the real thrust could not be more than 10 kg).<br>Feodor Geshvend expected that <i>Parolyot</i> would be able to make a flight from Saint Petersburg to Kiev in 6 hours with 5—6 stopovers.<br>The aircraft of Feodor Geshvend was never built.<br>The project was published in: <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">Ф. Гешвенд (1887)      <i> Общие основания устройства воздухоплавательного парохода «Паролёт» [The Aeronautical Steamer Parolyot: The General Fundamentals of Design]</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Kyiv" class="extiw" title="w:en:Kyiv"><span title="capital and largest city of Ukraine">Kyiv</span></a>  <small></small></cite>
<b>Feodor Geshvend</b> (1839—1890), Russia.
<cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">Соболев Д.А. (1995)    (in Russian)  <i> История самолётов. Начальный период</i>, М.:  Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), pp. 47,49  <small></small></cite>