Aerosani

An aerosani (Russian: aэросани, aerosani, actually 'aerosled') is a blazon of propeller-driven snowmobile, active on skis, acclimated for communications, mail deliveries, medical aid, emergency accretion and bound patrolling in arctic Russia, as able-bodied as for recreation. Aerosanis were acclimated by the Soviet Red Army during the Winter War and World War II.

The aboriginal aerosanis may accept been congenital by adolescent Igor Sikorsky in 1909–10, afore he congenital multi-engine airplanes and helicopters. They were actual ablaze plywood cars on skis, propelled by old aeroplane engines and propellers