Wings 27.03.2003 (2003)

The presenter and the pilot in the helicopter cockpit.

The helicopter takes off.

The presenter talks about helicopters and gets into the cockpit.

Background information: Helicopter piloting lesson part 1. The presenter talks about controlling the helicopter.

The main rotor thrust handle.

The helicopter propeller.

Background information: Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, helicopter prototypes, portrait of engineer Boris Yuryev and his prototype. helicopter.

The MI-8 helicopter is landing.

Khrushchev Nikita, Brezhnev Leonid and accompanying persons are at the top of the helicopter.

The presenter climbs the stairs into the helicopter.

The tail rotor of the helicopter.

The MI-26TT helicopter starts the engine, the blades are spinning.

The helicopter cockpit.

Background information: The MI-26 helicopter.

The Yak-24 helicopter in flight.

Background information: The Yak-24 helicopter.

Final assembly shop of the Rostvertol enterprise, Russian helicopter complex.

View of helicopters being built in the shop.

The presenter talks about the Brussels-Paris helicopter line. b/w: Helicopter over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant building, American helicopters in the skies of Vietnam, Soviet helicopters in the skies of Afghanistan, helicopters in Chechnya.

The presenter lists the technical characteristics of the MI-26 helicopter.

The presenter talks about the automation in the MI-26 helicopter.

The swash plate mechanism, washer, axles, rods, blades.

The pilot in the helicopter cockpit.

Background information: The ROBINSON-44 helicopter.

The ROBINSON-44 helicopter hovers in the air.

Background information: Helicopter piloting lesson part 2. The presenter talks about controlling the helicopter hovering in the air.

Ice explosions on the river.

A story from the city of Lensk.

A helicopter in the air.

A helicopter hovers over a frozen river.

Flood in the city of Lensk in 2001, flooded houses.

The presenter talks about the MI-24 and MI-35 helicopters.

The presenter is in the cockpit of the MI-24 PM helicopter.

Background information: the MI-24P "CROCODILE" helicopter.

The presenter lists the technical characteristics of the MI-24 helicopter.

The MI-24 helicopter is in the air, firing missiles.

A helicopter with a combat kit at the airfield.

MI-24 helicopters in the air.

The presenter talks about the "DANGER" sign on the tail of the helicopter.

Background information: Helicopter piloting lesson, part 3. The instructor-pilot comments on the helicopter's maneuvers in the air.

Chronicle: Helicopter piloting competitions in the USA. The presenter lists the technical characteristics of the MI-28 helicopter blades.

The blades are on a stand in the plant's workshop.

Black and white chronicle: A pilot on an air motorcycle takes off, mini helicopters fly, a jet helicopter in the air.

A presenter in a factory workshop lists the technical characteristics of the MI-28 helicopter.

Background information: MI-28 N. The presenter demonstrates the MI-28 helicopter cannon and talks about its characteristics.

Black and white chronicle: a minibus, people board an MI-4 helicopter.

Background information: MI-4 helicopter.

MI-4 helicopter in flight.

MI-1 helicopter stands on a pedestal of the aviation museum.

Background information: MI-1 helicopter.

The presenter lists the technical characteristics of the MI-1 helicopter.

Background information: MI-6 helicopter.

The presenter lists the technical characteristics of the MI-6 helicopter.

MI-6 helicopter stands on a pedestal of the aviation museum.

B/W chronicle: preparing MI-6 aircraft for flight, the pilot rolls up the cockpit window, the tail and main rotors rotate, the helicopter takes off, MI-6 helicopter is in the air, people at the airfield look at the sky, the helicopter lands.

Chronicle: Le Bourget airport building, B-12 helicopter parked and in the air, USSR flag, USSR pavilion at the exhibition.

Pilot Ross Nick talks about Russian helicopters.

Banknotes and coins of different countries.

Forest fire.

Helicopter with a tank full of water for extinguishing the fire.

Mikhail Mil at a meeting, drawings made by Mil M. MI-26 cargo helicopters in the air.

MI-26 cargo helicopter lifts the frame of the dome of a church under construction.

MI-26 cargo helicopter lifts the body of the helicopter into the air.

The presenter lists the technical characteristics of the MI-26 helicopter.

Boris Slyusar talks about Russian helicopter construction.

The presenter says goodbye to the audience.