Tsiolkovsky's funeral. Crowds assembled in Kaluga, Russia, to witness the funeral of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). Tsiolkovsky was a pioneer of aviation and aerospace design. He was one of the first to use open-section wind tunnels, those in which the test object is in free air and not a constricted tube. Tsiolkovsky laid many of the foundations of modern aerodynamics including finding the drag coefficients of flat plates, cylinders and spheres. He is best known for his visionary work on the problems of space travel. Release details: Model release not available. Property release not available. Keywords: 1857, 1935, 19th century, 20th, aerodynamics, aeronautics, aerospace, black, first, flight, funeral, history, kaluga, konstantin, monochrome, nineteenth, open section, pioneer, procession, russia, russian, space, spaceflight, tsiolkovsky, tunnel, twentieth, white, wind - Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. 1935 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies