Wings 10.05.2003 (2003)

The presenter at the airfield talks about military pilots.

A group of military fighters is in the air.

The pilots walk along the airfield along a row of military aircraft.

Black and white footage: A biplane, people on the field, a meeting of the military, a cameraman with a movie camera, the Egyptian pyramids, biplanes in the air, bombs being attached to the wing, bombs exploding on the ground.

Lipetsk Aviation Center: Military aircraft taxi and take off.

Aleksandr Kharchevsky talks about pilot training.

Black and white footage: Biplanes in the air.

Background information pilot Petr Nesterov.

Black and white footage: People at the airfield, biplanes in the air, Petr Nesterov.

Background information aircraft designer Anthony Fokker.

Black and white footage: A pilot inspects a biplane's engines, biplanes in the air, a dogfight between biplanes.

Background information pilot Aleksandr Kozakov.

Black and white footage: Biplanes in the air, pilots and technicians.

A modern biplane taking off.

View of the biplane wings during flight.

Black and white chronicle: Biplanes in the air, air combat.

Modern military attack aircraft SU-25 on the runway.

Pilot in helmet and mask.

View of the runway from the cockpit.

Istomin Andrey - pilot speaks about his decision to become a pilot.

Attack aircraft SU-25 in the air.

Background information Chkalov Valery.

Black and white chronicle: Chkalov Valery, biplanes in the air, Stalin Joseph, burning plane.

The presenter talks about air battles.

Black and white chronicle: Chkalov Valery, biplanes and monoplanes in the air.

Background information aircraft designer Polikarpov Nikolay.

Black and white chronicle: Air battles of World War II, German planes with a swastika.

Background information pilot Fedorov Ivan.

B/W chronicle: Air battles of World War II, Spanish pilots, air parade, Hitler, Goering, fascist officers.

Background information pilot Dyadyura Alexander speaks about his service.

Modern fighter aircraft.

B/W chronicle: Football match at the Dynamo stadium in Moscow, people in the stands, Junkers Ju-52 aircraft, towers of the Moscow Kremlin, Stalin, cars on the streets of Moscow.

Background information Hero of the Soviet Union Stern Grigory.

B/W chronicle: Military parade in Moscow, soldiers at the front, fascist aircraft, shelling of an airfield, pilot in the cockpit, bombing of an airfield, air battle, Soviet pilots.

Fighter aircraft I-16 in a museum.

B/W chronicle: Fighter aircraft I-16 in the air, air battle.

Background information: pilot Golubev Vasily.

Background information: pilots Pokryshkin Aleksandr, Klubov Aleksandr, Fedorov Arkady, Babak Ivan.

Black and white chronicle: Soviet pilots.

Background information: Bell P-39 D "Airacobra" aircraft.

Black and white chronicle: Bell P-39 D "Airacobra" aircraft at the airfield and in the air, aerial combat.

Background information: pilot Kamozin Pavel, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

Black and white chronicle: Bell P-39 D "Airacobra" aircraft in the air, Junkers Ju-52 aircraft, pilot in the cockpit, aerial combat, Soviet aircraft at the airfield, Soviet officers, downed German aircraft, pilots taking pictures at the airfield, refueling the aircraft.

Monument to pilot Kamozin Pavel in Bryansk.

Background information: German pilot Bar Heinrich.

Black and white chronicle: German aircraft "Messerschmitt Me.262" in the air.

Soviet monoplane fighter La-7 in the air.

Background information: Soviet monoplane fighter La-7 in the air, air battles.

Background information: Air Marshal Ivan Kozhedub.

Black and white chronicle: La-7 in the air, air battles, burning German aircraft with a swastika.

The pilot in the cockpit of the La-7. Modern military aircraft at the airfield.

Alexander Kharchevsky talks about the training of Russian pilots.

Modern fighters perform aerobatic maneuvers.

Black and white chronicle: Soviet MIG-15 aircraft, American aircraft during the Korean War in 1950, General MacArthur Douglas.

Background information: MIG-15 aircraft.

Background information: Air Marshal Ivan Kozhedub.

Black and white chronicle: Pilot in the cockpit, MIG-15 aircraft in the air, Background information: Shabanov Fedor - Hero of the Soviet Union.

Black and white chronicle: Airplane "North American F-86 Sabre".

Dyadyura Ulyana talks about her husband.

Attack aircraft SU-25 in the air.

Black and white chronicle: Air battle, Soviet MIG-15 aircraft, American F-86 aircraft, MIG-15 aircraft cannon, pilots on the airfield.

Background information: Pilot Sutyagin Nikolay - Hero of the Soviet Union.

The presenter talks about modern weapons.

Pilot in the cockpit of the simulator.

Istomin Andrey - senior pilot-instructor talks about pilot training.

Efimov Vadim - senior lieutenant talks about modern Russian aviation.

The presenter takes pictures with aircraft technicians.