Documentary (2009)

A Russian (but with English commentaries) documentary about the story of aviation in Russia, from the beginning during the Empire, through the Soviet area and later, until the rising of the twenty-first century. A huge overview in eighteen chapters which covers dozens of aircraft and shows thousands of their variants!

This page covers DVD01 to DVD06.
Wings of Russia (page 2) is about DVD07 to DVD12.
DVDs 13 to 18 are on Wings of Russia (page 3).

Opening Credits

Seen at the beginning of each DVD.

Tupolev Tu-128

Sukhoi Su-27

Beriev Be-40

Bartini VVA-14

Petlyakov Pe-2

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25P

Voisin III

Kamov Ka-50

Tupolev ANT-20

At right, two of the eight Mikulin AM-34FRN of the Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky of Aeroflot.

Rostislav-Alexeyev Lun-class ekranoplan

The sole example is known as MD-160.

Sikorsky S-21 Russki Vityaz

Kamov Ka-10 & Mil Mi-10

Yakovlev Yak-18U

Ilyushin Il-12

Tupolev Tu-95

Tupolev Tu-144S

Yakovlev Yak-38

Myasishchev M-55

Beriev Be-200 & Beriev Be-103 & Beriev Be-12P

Sukhoi Su-30

Bratukhin B-11

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

Ending Credits

Seen at the end of each DVD.

SPAD S.XIII

Kamov Ka-27

Beriev Be-6

Mikoyan MiG-29 OVT

Unidentified Aircraft

Probably an Ilyushin Il-12 or an Ilyushin Il-14.

Antonov An-32

Ivchenko AI-20 turboprop on Antonov An-32.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

Unidentified Aircraft

Yakovlev Yak-27

Kamov Ka-25

Ilyushin Il-18

Beriev Be-103

Mil Mi-1

Tupolev TB-6

Yakovlev Yak-9

Unidentified Aircraft

Tupolev Tu-104

Tupolev Tu-4

Sukhoi Su-26

DVD 1: Fighters - First Victories

Mikoyan MiG-29 OVT

Sukhoi Su-30 LL

Sukhoi Su-33

Alias Sukhoi Su-27K.

Mikoyan MiG-35

Lavotchkine La-17

Sukhoi Su-30 MKK

Blue 502.

Wright Flyer I

Antoinette IV

Sommer 1910

Farman MF.7

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Voisin Archdeacon Hydroplane

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Voisin Delagrange I

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Cody Biplane

Samuel Franklin Cody, showman who became aircraft designer and aviator, built this biplane. Two different types flew : one in 1910, the other in 1911.

Albessard Aérobus

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Antoinette V

Unidentified Voisin

Elise Deroche (usually named Raymonde de Laroche) first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence (number 36). She participated in aviation meetings at Saint Petersburg where she was personally congratulated by Tsar Nicholas II.

Ae 800

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Blériot XI-2 bis & Farman HF.4

Sommer Type E

Nieuport II

Zeppelin R Class

Shot taken from Hell's Angels (running time : 56mn30 ).
L-32, code worn by Zeppelin LZ74.

Airco DH.2

Morane-Saulnier G

Morane-Saulnier G in which Pyotr Nesterov died in september 1914 (25 August 1914 as stated by traditionnal calendar) making the first russian air victory against an Albatros BII.

Morane-Saulnier G upgrade with a Maxim machine-gun used by P. A. Sveshnikov.

Morane-Saulnier L Parasol

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Nieuport IV

Nieuport IVG of Pyotr Nesterov (august 1914).

Albatros B.II

Same type of aircraft which was shot down by Pyotr Nesterov.

Nieuport 10

Russian pilot Alexander Kozakov.

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2

Sloan 1910

This one is seen too on the beginning of DVD09.

Unidentified Aircraft

Several aircraft unidentified seen during the first 15 minutes of this first DVD.

Barrage balloon

Caquot shaped balloon but which type and nationality ?

Nieuport 11

Nieuport 21

Albatros B.II vs Morane-Saulnier G

Deperdussin TT

Same aircraft seen in another movie at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Morane-Saulnier N

French Caporal Jules Védrines at the controls.

Morane-Saulnier N in front of several Nieuport, all of 19 KAO.

Fokker D.III

Built in late 1916, this Fokker D.III, D3023/16, is seen during trials.

Fokker E.III

Farman MF.11

Farman MF XI used by the Baltic Sea Fleet (Russia).

Sopwith F.1 Camel

Sopwith 1½ Strutter

Nieuport 17

Albatros D.II

Sopwith Pup & Sopwith F.1 Camel & Sopwith Snipe

From left to right (or bottom to up).

Sopwith Triplane

One of them was sent to Russia. The documentary just shows these Triplanes of No. 1 Naval Squadron.

Fokker Dr.I

Probably a flyable replica of the seventies.

Mosca MB 2bis

Sikorsky S-16

Farman F.40

Farman F.40 of the Aeronautique Militaire.

SPAD A.2

Hansa-Brandenburg C I

Kapitan Evgraf Kruten and one of his prey shot down on 24 May 1917.

Unidentified Aircraft

Most of the following screenshots are probably shots from airshows or movies.

Vought VE-7

Already seen (inverted) in Wings.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Flight Simulator

Unidentified Aircraft

Fokker D.VII

SPAD S.XIII

Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5

Nieuport 24

Ansaldo SVA.5

Polikarpov Il-400 prototype

Forerunner of the Polikarpov I-1.

Polikarpov I-1

Fokker E.I

Grigorovich I-2

Polikarpov I-3

Tupolev I-4

Tupolev I-4 & Tupolev TB-1 (Zveno-1)

A heavy bomber is acting as a mothership for several fighters. These projects were known in USSR under the generic name Zveno. This is the Zveno-1.

TsKB I-7

TsKB (Центральное конструкторское бюро = Bureau Central Design) built under licence nearly hundred fifty of the Heinkel HD 37 as a stopgap before the Polikarpov I-5 was put into service.

Polikarpov I-5

Polikarpov I-5 vs Polikarpov I-15

Polikarpov I-15

Polikarpov I-15bis

Sometimes named Polikarpov I-152.

Polikarpov DI-2

TsKB I-7

Another TsKB I-7, it seems...

Kochyerigin DI-6

Known too as the TsKB-11.

Tupolev Ant-31 (I-14 for the VVS)

Grigorovich IP-1

Polikarpov I-16 type 5

DVD 2: Fighters - Stormy Years

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G

Yakovlev Yak-1

Yakovlev Yak-3 vs Messerschmitt Bf 109 G

Title screen of the second part of the fighter study.

Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

Heinkel He 111 H

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Ilyushin Il-2M3 Sturmovik

Yakovlev Yak-1B

Lavochkin La-5FN

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Another Messerschmitt Bf 109E seen in other movies; look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Yakovlev I-26

Prototype of the Yakolev Yak-1.

First prototype.

Second prototype.

Yakovlev Yak-9

Lavochkin I-301

Prototype of the Lavochkin LaGG-1.

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-200

Prototype of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1

Petlyakov Pe-8

Originally named ANT-7.

Polikarpov I-153

Also known as Polikarpov I-15ter.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 (late serie)

Polikarpov I-16 type 10 or type 24

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F

Yakovlev Yak-4 & Yakovlev UT-1

Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev presenting a Yak-4 to his guest (who holds a UT-1 trainer).

Lavochkin LaGG-3

This serie with a NS-37 37 mm cannon.

LaGG-3 of Major Galchenko, commander of 609 IAP at Kandalaksha.

Yakovlev Yak-1 & Polikarpov U-2S-1

Polikarpov U-2S-1 is an air ambulance version which had a raised fuselage top upon the stretcher.

ANBO IV

This Lithuanian design (we still guess the roundel on the rudder) was discovered by german troops among other russian aircrats, 18 months after this baltic republic was invaded by USSR.

Tupolev SB 2M-100A

Various aircrafts including some Polikarpov I-16

Polikarpov I-16 type 24

This one armed with underwing RS-82 rockets.

Junkers Ju 88 A

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-7b

Tupolev SB 2M-103

Polikarpov U-2

Yakovlev Yak-7A

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 (first series)

Yakovlev Yak-7V

With skis and RS-82 rockets.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F2 'Yellow 10' flown by Uffz. Hofmann of 9./JG2, France, Summer 1941.

Barrage balloon

Petlyakov Pe-3

Heavy fighter variant of the Petlyakov Pe-2.

Petlyakov Pe-2

Polikarpov TIS

Tairov Ta-1

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG DIS

Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A

Yakovlev Yak-9D

Lavochkin La-5

Lavochkin La-5F

Polikarpov I-185 (M-71 engine)

Polikarpov I-185 (M-82 engine)

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG I-231

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-220

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG I-222

Yakovlev Yak-9

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6

Erich Hartmann and his Bf 109 G-6 of 9/JG52

Yakovlev Yak-9T

With a 37 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 cannon.

Yakovlev Yak-9B

With four vertical tube bomb bays aft of the cockpit.

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress

Seen during a shuttle mission (code name Frantic), some Yak under the wingtip of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

A Boeing B-17G of the 416th BS, 99th BG along YakovlevYak-9.

Yakovlev Yak-9U

North American B-25 Mitchell & Douglas A-20 Havoc & Bell P-39 Airacobra

At left, the twin tails of a B-25 leading this ferry flight of Bell P-39 and a single A-20 (bottom right).

Hawker Hurricane

Probably Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk V

Line up of Spitfire Mk V aircraft, including AD236 and BL625,

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Bell P-39Q Airacobra

Bell P-39Q-20 Airacobra.

This four blade propeller variant is a Bell P-39Q-21 or Bell P-39Q-25.

Bell P-63 Kingcobra

Messerschmitt Bf 110

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Lavochkin La-5FN

Lavochkin La-5FN used for experiment by Serguei Inorgui.

Seconds later; note the G-meter indicating 8G (at left).

Yakovlev Yak-3 with VK-108 engine

Messerschmitt Me 209

Yakovlev Yak-3

Yak-3s arrival at Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget in June 1945.

Musée de l'Air et del'Espace-Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget in 2007 : Yak-3 between the world's single surviving Polikarpov I-153 and the Republic P-47D-30-RE Thunderbolt s/n 44-20371. The propeller of the North American P-51D 20NA Mustang s/n 44-63871 is visible in the foreground.

Lavochkin La-7

Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe

Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant

Lavochkin La-9

Yakovlev Yak-15

Seen on DVD02 and at the beginning of DVD03.

Tupolev Tu-4

Lavochkin La-11

Petlyakov Pe-8

Ilyushin Il-12

Tupolev Tu-2S

Yakovlev Yak-23 Flora

Please note that this shot is used again (but in B&W) in the first quarter of the DVD03.

DVD 3: Fighters - Jet Era

Yakovlev Yak-15

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

North American B-25 Mitchell

An airframe modified in order to test the Burlaki concept in which a bomber pull a fighter. Most of such tests were done with Tupolev Tu-4.

Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1 Komet

Tests of taxiing an airframe captured by the VVS and pulled by a wire.

Some times later, an archive footage of the Luftwaffe is shown.

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

Sikorsky HRS-1

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

Yakovlev Yak-9

Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A

Heinkel He 178

Gloster E.28/39

W4041 is the first prototype.

Gloster Meteor F Mk 4

Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1

First prototype.

Second prototype on skis with test pilot Bakhchivandzhi.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Sixth prototype before being modified with PVRD.

Some prototypes had armament of two ShVAK 20mm cannon.

Lavochkin La-7R

Testbed for a tail-mounted liquid-fuelled RD-1KhZ rocket engine.

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250

Prototype number 1.

Heinkel He 162

Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Boeing B-50 Superfortress

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG I-300

Prototype of the future MiG-9.

Lavochkin La-150

Sukhoï Su-9 and Su-11

1946 : first use of these names; do not confuse with the airframes of the 60's.

Sukhoï Su-9 (with RATO)

Yakovlev Yak-17

Sukhoï Su-11

Yakovlev Yak-23 Flora

Messerschmitt Me 163 A Komet

Lavochkin La-160

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG I-310

Prototype of the future MiG-15.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Bis

21 September 1953, a defecting North Korean pilot lands his MiG-15 Bis (c/n 2015357) at Kimpo.
Note the tail of a Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker at right and a Boeing B-29 Superfortress in the background.

Lavochkin La-15

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 UTI

Republic F-84E Thunderjet

North American F-86E Sabre

Lisunov Li-2

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

Bell X-1 & mother ship

The mother ship could be a modified B-29 Superfortress (first flights) or a modified B-50 Superfortress (during the last flights of Glamorous Glennis).
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Bell X-1 *Glamorous Glennis* (s/n 46-062)

Boeing EB-29 Superfortress

s/n 45-21800, a Boeing B-29-96-BW Superfortress (usually type named EB-29) used for X-1 trials. Adorn with the nose art "Bell" of a baby (carried by a storch) ready to launch an arrow.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Lavochkin La-176

Mikoyan-Gurevich SM-1

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

Tupolev Tu-95

Boeing EB-29 Superfortress & McDonnell XF-85 Goblin

Yakovlev Yak-25

We are in 1947; it's the first use of this model name. Please do not confuse with the twin engined jet of the fifties. Only one aircraft built which was named Yak-25E after some modifications for Burlaki tests.

Tupolev Tu-4

Aircraft c/n 2805204 modified with a system developed by Yakovlev for flight refueling tests.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Bis

One of the three MiG-15 Bis modified for such tests.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S SM-10

Tests for flight refueling done with a Tupolev Tu-16.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S SM-30

Republic F-84G Thunderjet

Pending to the Soviet SM-30, the USA tested ZELL (ZEro Length Launch) with a F-84G.

English Electric Canberra

Lavochkin La-200 & Mikoyan-Gurevich I-320

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17PF

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19P

Yakovlev Yak-25M

Private venture to answer the failure of the Lavochkin La-200 and Mikoyan-Gurevich I-320.

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2

Narrator speaks of Ye-1 but it was just a project. Ye-2 first flight occured on 14 February 1955.

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-4

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F 'Fishbed' of the Bulgarian Air Force.

Yakovlev Yak-24

The helicopter on the far left.

Sukhoi Su-7B

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-6T/1

Prototype based on MiG-21F.

North American F-86 Sabre

Firing AIM-9B Sidewinder.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 F-13

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PF

McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II

McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II of VF-84, US Navy.

McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PFM

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 U

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Unidentified Aircraft

Tushino, 1966.

Sukhoi T-3

Sukhoï Su-11

Yakovlev Yak-28

Sukhoi Su-9

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Lavochkin La-250

Tupolev Tu-128

Mil Mi-2

Antonov An-12

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25

DVD 4: Fighters - Struggle for Superiority

Various Aircraft

Zhukovsky Air Show during the nineties.

Behind the Sukhoi Su-27 white radar fairing and crowd, a Tupolev Tu-160 at right, then a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, a Boeing C-135 Stratolifter, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and two white corporate jets, a Dassault Falcon 900 and Bombardier CL-600 Challenger.

Kamov Ka-52

Sukhoi Su-30 LL

Ilyushin Il-96 & Beriev A-50 & Ilyushin Il-114

Mil Mi-28N

Sukhoi Su-30 MKI

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 & Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PF

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 PD

Bell UH-1 Iroquois

Aero L-29 Delfin

McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 M

McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PFM

Sukhoi T-58VD

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23-01

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 S

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 M

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Bis

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 ML

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 UB

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 MLD

Dassault Mirage III Milan & Dassault Mirage F1C

Dassault Mirage F1C

Escadron de chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen, Armée de l'Air.

Bell 204

Saab AJ 37 Viggen

Dassault Mercure 100

General Dynamics F-111A Aardvark

Prototype.

In service.

McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II

Sukhoi Su-15

Lockheed U-2A

Martin RB-57D Canberra

Sukhoi Su-11

The second Sukhoi baptised Su-11 (NATO reporting name 'Fishpot-C') was an interceptor aircraft used by the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

Sukhoi Su-15 TM

Pllan view of the new wing.

Prototype of the TM variant in flight.

Sukhoi Su-15 T

Yakovlev Yak-12

Boeing 707-321B

Reg. HL7429, Korean Air Lines Flight 902 on 20 April 1978.

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

North American XB-70 Valkyrie

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-155

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-155R-3 and Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-155P-2.

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-155P-3.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PU

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25P

Probably the most world known MiG-25P, that of Viktor Belenko (Hakodate Airport, Japan, 6 September 1976).

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PD

Let L-410 Turbolet

On the left.

Mikoyan MiG-31

Tupolev Tu-160

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PFM

General Dynamics YF-16 Fighting Falcon

Prototype of the General Dynamics YF-16 s/n 72-1568.

Lockheed Martin F-16A Fighting Falcon

McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle

Roll-out of the first prototype.

World record breaker F-15 s/n 72-0119 baptised Streak Eagle.

Ramenskoye projects

First drawings from the three OKB (Experimental Design Bureau) of Mikoyan, Sukhoï and Yakovlev.

Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter

Sukhoi T-10

Model kit of the prototype T-10 on the table. The wall plan depicts what seems to be an aircraft with swing wing.

First prototype T10-1.

Probably the third prototype (T10-3) with Tupolev Tu-22M in the background.

Prototype T10-17 during firing tests.

Sukhoi Su-27

Mikoyan MiG-29

Mikoyan MiG-29UB

Sukhoi P-42

Like the Streak Eagle, a stripped off airframe to break world records.

Sukhoi Su-27UB

Sukhoi Su-27K

Mikoyan MiG-29K

Mikoyan MiG-29M

Sukhoi Su-35

Alias T10M-9. First picture taken during Farnborough 1992 Airshow.

Sukhoi Su-35 BM.

Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut

Mikoyan Project 1.44

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21-93

Saab JAS 39D Gripen

Aircraft 9819 of the Vzdušné síly Armády České republiky (Czech Air Force).

Eurofighter Typhoon DA5

98+30 Eurofighter Typhoon DA5 of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force).

Saab JAS 39C Gripen

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor

Dassault Rafale C

Sukhoi Su-37

One of the two built, wearing the 711 code used during Farnborough 1996 Airshow.

Mikoyan MiG-29A

Anatoliy Kvochur ejects from Mig 29 'Blue 303' 8th June 1989 during the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show-Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Sukhoi Su-30 MK

Ejection of the pilot and navigator of a Sukhoi Su-30 MK that crashed from a bird strike at the Paris Air Show on 12th June 1999.

DVD 5: Bombers - Winged Armada

Tupolev TB-1

A shot quickly seen in the middle of the TB-3s flying over Moscow.

Tupolev TB-3

Seen during a flypast over Moscow in 1937.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Action seen in the movie "The Alive and the Dead" (Живые и мёртвые / Zhivye i myortvye).
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Probably a shot taken from Aerograd but flipped.

Polikarpov R-5

Or perhaps Polikarpov RZ ? Still the 1937 Moscow flypast.

Tupolev ANT-20

First variant named Maxim Gorky.

18th May 1935. Seconds before the crash. The biplanes are a Polikarpov R-5 and a Polikarpov I-5

Polikarpov I-16

Sikorsky Ilya Muromets

First a model built for Поэма о крыльях.

Ilya Muromets S-24 G-1 Series.

Iliya Muromets Type G-1 in Soviet colors.

Sikorsky S-21 Bolshoi Baltisky

Some flights were made with two engines.

Sikorsky S-21 Russky Vityaz

Quickly, two additional engines led to the definitive configuration.

Unidentified fighter

KomTA

Unidentified floatplane

Perhaps floats for the Junkers K 30/JuG-1, the bomber derivative of the Junkers G-24.

Farman F.62 BN4 Goliath

Twenty of them were bought in France as an interim bomber.

Junkers JuG-1

Tupolev ANT-4

Strana Sovyetov (Land of the Soviets) taking off for its flight from Moscow to New York, fall 1929.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Registered URSS-300, the Tupolev ANT-4 which flew in America.

Aircraft used by Anatoly Vasilyevich Liapidevsky -the first to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union- rescuing the crew of the steamship Cheliuskin sunk in Arctic (1934).

Polikarpov I-5

A Polikarpov I-5 taking off in front of a line-up of Tupolev TB-3s.

Martin B-10

Mitsubishi G3M

Boeing YB-17 Flying Fortress

Handley Page Heyford

Farman F.221

Tupolev TB-3-4AM-34RD

Reg. URSS-2236 during its stopover at Warsaw, en route to Paris.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Kalinin K-7

Tupolev TB-6

Unbuilt project.

Tupolev TB-3-4AM-34R

Tupolev ANT-25

Reg. URSS-N025 Tupolev ANT-25 which flew to Vancouver in June 1937.

Tupolev ANT-37 (DB-2)

Tupolev ANT-25 evolved into the single engine bomber DB-1. Unsuccessful, it was itself the precursor of the Tupolev ANT-37 (DB-2) but its challenger, the Ilyushin DB-3, was put into mass production.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Ilyushin DB-3

Ilyushin TsKB-30

Prototype of the DB-3 Family. Christined Rodina.

Bolkhovitinov DB-A

Petlyakov Pe-8

Later variant with ASh-82 radial engines.

Ilyushin DB-3D

Gloster Gladiator

A Finnish one or a Gloster J-8 of the Swedish Voluntary Air Force during the Finnish Winter War.

Ilyushin Il-4

Ilyushin DB-4

Only two short lived prototypes.

Yermolayev Yer-2

More three hundred built. Developed from Bartini Stal-7.

Seen again near the episode's end.

Bartini Stal-7

Dornier Do 17 (or Do 217)

Petlyakov Pe-8

Petlyakov Pe-8 with inline engines (Mikulin AM-35).

Heinkel He 111 H

Right Jumo 211F engine of a Heinkel He 111 H.

Tupolev TB-3

Zveno 2 three Polikarpov I-5.

Zveno 6 with two Polikarpov I-16 which were attached to the intrados.

Lisunov Li-2VV

Seen first armed with four bombs.

North American B-25J Mitchell

North American B-25J Mitchell s/n 328112.

North American B-25B Mitchell

Avro Lancaster B Mk. I

Avro Lancaster R5669 "OL-E" carried the nickname HMT River Spey.

Petlyakov Pe-2

Boeing B-17F-5-BO Flying Fortress

B-17F-5-BO s/n 41-24416 Black Diamond Express, BN-V of 359 BS.

Consolidated B-24G/H Liberator

Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax B Mk. I Series I

Handley Page H.P.59 Halifax B Mk. II Series I (Special)

Vickers Wellington

In the distance.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Picture taken from The Last Bomb.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress of 9th BG.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Boeing B-29-45-MO Superfortress

Loading of Fat Man into B-29-45-MO Bockscar, s/n 44-27297 of 393d BS, 509th Composite Group.

Tupolev Tu-4

DVD 6: Bombers - Cold War

McDonnell Douglas F-4B/J Phantom II

Tupolev Tu-95KM

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Variant from B to F models with the tall vertical stabilizer.

Boeing B-52G/H Stratofortress

Later variant taking off in front of some KC-135 Startotankers (not visible on this screenshot).

Tupolev Tu-160

Mittlewerk EWM A4 Vergeltungswaffe V-2

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Tupolev Tu-4

Tupolev Tu-4 behind the first Soviet atomic bomb, the RDS-1.

Convair B-36D Peacemaker

Boeing B-50 Superfortress

Boeing B-47 Stratojet

Yak 14

Tupolev Tu-4

Use for air refuelling trials. Serial 222401. Other serials seen : 221902 and 223105.

Republic F-84 Thunderjet

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis

What strange roundels ! The Soviet Star on the vertical stabilizer but the fuselage wears the North Korea star !

Ilyushin Il-22

Tupolev project '82'

Tupolev '82' wind tunnel model and prototype, later named Tu-22 (the first use which must not be confused with the 1959 project).

Tupolev project '88'

Prototype of the Tu-16.

Ilyushin Il-28

Ilyushin Il-46

Tupolev Tu-4LL

Flying testbed for the Mikulin AM-3 turbojet of the future Tu-16.

Tupolev Tu-16A1

Petlyakov Pe-2

Not a Tu-2 (because the low wing).

Boeing YB-52 Stratofortress

YB-52 s/n 49-0231.

Avro Vulcan prototype

VX770 crashed on 20 September 1958 during the Battle of Britain day air show at RAF Syerston.
Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Vickers Valiant

Handley Page H.P.80 Victor

Myasishchev M-4

Tupolev ANT-16

Sukhoi projects

Preview of the coming DVDs (on Wings of Russia (page 2))

Chyetverikov MDR-6

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