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)
MiG I-231
MiG I-220
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-17 Flying Fortress
Seen during a shuttle mission (code name Frantic), some Yak under the wingtip of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
Tupolev TB-3
Action seen in the movie "The Alive and the Dead" (Живые и мёртвые - 1964).
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
- Atelier aérostatique de Chalais-Meudon - Caquot dirigible
- Blériot XI
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Deperdussin TT
- 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
- Heinkel He 111
- Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik
- Junkers Ju-87 Stuka
- Junkers Ju-88
- Lavochkin La-5
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- Morane-Saulnier L
- Morane-Saulnier N
- Nieuport IV
- Nieuport 10
- Nieuport 11
- Nieuport 17
- Nieuport 24
- Petlyakov Pe-2
- Petlyakov Pe-8
- Polikarpov I-15
- Polikarpov I-16
- Polikarpov R-5
- Polikarpov U-2
- Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2
- Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
- Sopwith 1½ Strutter
- Sopwith Camel
- Sopwith Pup
- Sopwith Snipe
- Sopwith Triplane
- SPAD S.XIII
- Tupolev TB-3 (ANT-6)
- Voisin Archdeacon Hydroplane
- Voisin Delagrange I
- Vought VE-7
- Wright Flyer I
- Yakovlev Yak-1
- Yakovlev Yak-3
- Yakovlev Yak-9