Nebo izmeryayetsya milyami

Nebo izmeryayetsya milyami movie poster.

Movie (2019)
Russian title : Небо измеряется милями
French title :
English title (literally): The sky is measured in miles

Starring:
Evgeniy Stychkin (Mikhail Mil)
Maryana Spivak (Pana Rudenko)
Andrey Merzlikin (Nikolai Kamov)
Sergey Pokhodaev (Young Mikhail Mil)

Biographical film dedicated to the Russian pioneer and great industrialist of the revolving wings: Mikhail Leontyevich Mil (1909-1970).

Note: This film utilises a significant quantity of Computer Generated Images (CGI). Aircraft portrayed in this film may not be entirely accurate and have been identified as closely as possible to real aircraft.

Mil V-12

Unidentified Sailplane

Kamov TsAGI A-7

TsAGI 1-EA

Designed by the TsAGI (Central Aero and Hydrodynamic Institute) to carry out research into problems associated with rotary-winged flight.

The real one (archive footage).

Heinkel He 111

Polikarpov I-16

Слава героям Отечественной войны! / Glory to the heroes of the Patriotic War!

Tupolev Tu-2S

Generic Floatplane (toy)

Not a Soviet design (all single engine hydroplanes were amphibians). Toy of Mil's son dead during WW2 but shape close to the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (first flight in 1947 !).

Sikorsky S-51

Mil Mi-1

Antonov An-2P

An-2P built in 1972 by PZL Mielec (s/n 141-65) RA-70411.

(top) Two ROS-Aeroprogress T-101 Grach (first and third from the left) among the An-2 row.

Another one, 11 yellow.

Sikorsky HRS-2

U.S. Marines Corps, Korea, 1950's.

Mil Mi-4

Tupolev Tu-114

Reg. CCCP-л5611 / SSSR-L5611 Tupolev Tu-114.
September 20, 1959 : Mister "K" arrival at Washington.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Sikorsky VH-34D

Portrait Gallery

Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 (fourth layout).

(left to right)
( Vought-Sikorsky VS-300) / Sikorsky S-41 / Sikorsky S-42 / Sikorsky's logo / Igor Sikorsky in front of the VS-300 / Sikorsky R-4 / Sikorsky S-51.

Unidentified Aircraft

According the screenplay, during the tour of Sikorsky's assembly lines.

Mil Mi-8

Le Bourget (France), June 1965

26th Paris Airshow, Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget, France.
No use of archive footage as all registrations are missing and some details are wrong (for example the real Mil Mi-8 had wheel aerodynamic fairings; all the single engine airframes are missing (the V-tailed high-performance Antonov A-15 sailplane and Yakovlev Yak-18 and Yakovlev Yak-18T) likewise the Tupolev Tu-134 CCCP-45176).

Mil Mi-6

Reg. CCCP-06174 / SSSR-06174 Mil Mi-6.
Same helicopter in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing).
In front of the Mil Mi-10 and the Antonov An-22 with Ilyushin Il-62 and Mil Mi-8 on the left edge.

Mil Mi-10

Reg. CCCP-04102/SSSR-04102 Mil Mi-10.
Same helicopter in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing).

Top View

1 : Unidentified four engined (not a Breguet 941 -the wing does'nt suit- and despite close shape to an Ilyushin Il-76, it's impossible the type's maiden flight occured only in 1971 ... and too small as the wingspan is nearly the same of number 2);
2 & 6 & 13 : Tupolev Tu-114;
3 & 5 : Ilyushin Il-62 including CCCP-06176;
4 : Antonov An-22 CCCP-46191 show number : 235; prototype later registered CССР-160151 then СССР-64459 / UR-64459. On strength for the VVS as "40" "01" then "10" between 1967 and 1981. Now preserved since 1994;
7 & 16 & 17 : Antonov An-24 including CCCP-46791;
8 : Tupolev Tu-124V CCCP-45072 (unknown fate; no record after 1980);
9 : Mil Mi-4;
10 : Mil V-8AP CCCP-06181;
11 : Mil Mi-10 CCCP-04102;
12 : Mil Mi-6 CCCP-06174;
14 : Ilyushin Il-18D CCCP-75581;
15 : Antonov An-12B (civil) CCCP-11359.

Mil Mi-24P

Mil Mi-24P acting as the first Mil Mi-24A which was different (tandem seat under a single greenhouse instead the later two separate cockpits).

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