Wings of Russia
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Documentary (2009)
A russian (but with english commentaries) documentary about the story of aviation in Russia, from the beginings 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 tenths aircrafts and shows thousands of their variants !
Mikoyan MiG-29 OVT
Lavotchkine La-17
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 & 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
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.
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2
Unidentified Aircraft
Several aircraft unidentified seen during the first 15 minutes of this first DVD.
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
I-5 vs Polikarpov I-15
Polikarpov I-15
Polikarpov I-15bis
Sometimes named Polikarpov I-152.
Polikarpov DI-2
Unidentified Aircraft
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
Messerschmitt Bf 109G
Yakovlev Yak-1
Yakovlev Yak-3 vs Messerschmitt Bf 109G
Title screen of the second part of the fighter study.
Junkers Ju-87B Stuka
Heinkel He 111H
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Ilyushin Il-2M3 Sturmovik
Yakovlev Yak-1B
Lavochkin La-5FN
Messerschmitt Bf 109E
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 109E-3
Messerschmitt Bf 109F
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-88A
Messerschmitt Bf 109E-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 109F
Messerschmitt Bf 109F2 'Yellow 10' flown by Uffz. Hofmann of 9./JG2, France, Summer 1941.
Unidentified Blimp
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 190A
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 MiG I-220
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG I-222
Yakovlev Yak-9
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6
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
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
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 Le Bourget (Paris) Airport in June 1945.
Le Bourget Air Museum 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 on the foreground.
Lavochkin La-7
Messerschmitt Me 262 Swalbe
Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant
Lavochkin La-9
Yakovlev Yak-15
Tupolev Tu-4
Lavochkin La-11
Petlyakov Pe-8
Ilyushin Il-12
Tupolev Tu-2S
Yakovlev Yak-23
Please note that this shot is used again (but in B&W) in the first quarter of the DVD03.
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 190A
Heinkel He 178
Gloster E.28/39
Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1
First prototype.
Second prototype on skis with test pilot Bakhchivandzhi.
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 MiG 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
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.
Boeing EB-29 Superfortress
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
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
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 C-17, a C-135, a B-52 and two white corporate jets (a Dassault Falcon and ?).
Kamov Ka-52
Tupolev TB-3
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
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- Unidentified Aircraft
- Airco DH.2
- Albatros D.II
- Albessard Aérobus
- Ansaldo SVA
- Antoinette IV
- Antonov An-10/An-12
- Atelier aérostatique de Chalais-Meudon - Caquot dirigible
- Bell P-39 Airacobra
- Bell X-1
- Blériot XI
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Boeing B-50 Superfortress
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
- Deperdussin TT
- Douglas A-20 Havoc
- Douglas DC-3
- English Electric Canberra
- Farman F.40
- Farman MF.7
- Farman MF.11
- Focke-Wulf Fw 190
- Fokker D.VII
- Fokker Dr.I
- Fokker E.I
- Fokker E.III
- Gloster Meteor
- Hawker Hurricane
- Heinkel He 111
- Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik
- Junkers Ju-87 Stuka
- Junkers Ju-88
- Kamov Ka-50
- Lavochkin La-5
- Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
- Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Messerschmitt Bf 110
- Messerschmitt Me 163
- Messerschmitt Me 262
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- Morane-Saulnier L
- Morane-Saulnier N
- Nieuport IV
- Nieuport 10
- Nieuport 11
- Nieuport 17
- Nieuport 24
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- North American F-86 Sabre
- Petlyakov Pe-2
- Petlyakov Pe-8
- Polikarpov I-15
- Polikarpov I-16
- Polikarpov R-5
- Polikarpov U-2
- PZL-Świdnik Mi-2
- Republic F-84 Thunderjet
- Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2
- Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
- Sikorsky H-19
- Sopwith 1½ Strutter
- Sopwith Camel
- Sopwith Pup
- Sopwith Snipe
- Sopwith Triplane
- SPAD S.XIII
- Sukhoi Su-7
- Sukhoi Su-9
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Tupolev TB-3 (ANT-6)
- Tupolev Tu-2
- Tupolev Tu-95
- Voisin Archdeacon Hydroplane
- Voisin Delagrange I
- Vought VE-7
- Wright Flyer I
- Yakovlev Yak-1
- Yakovlev Yak-3
- Yakovlev Yak-9
- Yakovlev Yak-24