Wings №1 08.02.2005 (2005)

Solid air.

Airplanes of various designs from the 1910s-2000s in flight (collage).

Performance of one of the aerobatic teams.

Bombers on the airfield parking lot (panorama).

Turboprop bomber in flight.

Newsreel from the 1900s-1910s: one of the first airplanes in flight, the pilot in an open seat.

The Wright brothers' airplane in flight on December 17, 1903. Members of the commission with armbands on their sleeves on the airfield watch the flight.

The airplane is coming in for a landing.

Wilbur Wright's face.

Starting the engines.

The Wright brothers' airplane in flight.

The U-2 biplane takes off during a foreign air show.

Newsreel: the Voisin airplane flies over the airfield, a photograph of the first aircraft designers and pilots Henri Farman and Gabriel Voisin.

Views of the Champs-Elysees.

An airplane flies under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Louis Bleriot's monoplane takes off on June 25, 1905. Louis Bleriot in a flight suit, on crutches at the airfield after another accident.

Bleriot in the pilot's seat.

Bleriot's airplane flies across the English Channel.

People on the English bank signal Bleriot's airplane, waving a flag.

View of part of a city block (top).

Bleriot after landing.

Views of the streets of Paris and New York.

A photographer with a portable camera at the airfield.

Bleriot is met in Paris after his flight across the English Channel.

Bleriot's disassembled airplane is driven through the streets of Paris.

The face of aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky.

One of Sikorsky's first helicopters takes off from the ground.

Sikorsky controls a helicopter of his own design.

A cameraman films from an airplane.

Photographs and newsreel of Edouard Nieuport's tests and flights, Nieuport's photo portrait.

A story about the design of the first airplanes.

Newsreel from 1911: one of the first Nieuports takes off.

Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov sits on a bench.

The procedure for performing the Nesterov Loop.

Newsreel from 1913: Nesterov's airplane performing a loop in the air on August 27, 1913, over the Syrets field in Kyiv.

French pilots at the airfield.

Panorama of airplanes parked at the airfield, preparation for flight and maintenance.

Airplane crash, photographs of E. Nieuport's wrecked airplane.

People at the airfield (top).

Classic airplane control scheme created by Nieuport.

Operation of a wind tunnel, its effect on humans.

Newsreel: preparing a combat aircraft for takeoff during World War I. Airplane takeoff roll on the airfield, takeoff.

Manual release of bombs from an airplane.

Bomb explosion in position (top).

Ilya Muromets bomber in flight.

Triplane takeoff.

Russian pilots and mechanics inspect the aircraft engine.

One of the pilots in leather uniform near the aircraft.

Airplane landing.

Combat aircraft in flight.

Air battles, German air raid on Paris in 1918, pilot and gunner in the cockpit.

Manufacturing processes at one of the aircraft factories, production of wooden aircraft structures.

Airplane in flight.

View of the top of the Statue of Liberty in Manhattan.

View of the Eiffel Tower.

Spectators in the stands during an air show.

A squadron of aircraft in flight.

Starting the engine.

Holding the tail of the aircraft before the takeoff run.

Airplanes take turns taking off.

Story about the speed records of the 1920s, record holder Alexandre Bonnet, photographs of aircraft of new designs, portrait of Bonnet.

Newsreel: French aircraft performing aerobatics.

Airplanes in flight (top).

Formation of aircraft in flight.

A plane that crashed into the ground is on fire.

Biplanes take off from an airfield in the USA. An airplane in flight.

A squadron of biplanes flies by.

A car on a racing track.

A flight of Soviet I-16 fighters takes off.

I-16 fighters in flight, fragments of the film "Valery Chkalov".

Soviet Yak fighters at an airfield.

An American bomber lands.

Flights of monoplane aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.

Landing of a flying boat on the water.

Takeoff of a Castoldi seaplane, photographs of a Macchi seaplane.

View of the front of a landed seaplane.

Coastal seascape (panorama, from above).

Photograph of a seaplane.

Newsreel: seaplane flights over a bay (panorama).

Seaplanes during the 1934 air races, interspersed with photographs of the pilots and seaplanes in which the speed records were set.

An Italian seaplane in flight.

The launch of a flying boat during World War I. Panoramas and views of US airfields, aircraft flights.

An airplane flies over New York, a photograph by C. Thompson, who instituted a prize for pilots of short-distance circuit races.

Airplanes taking off at the start of the Los Angeles to New York races.

Airplanes flying over the airfield.

Acrobatic aviation stunts performed on the wing of an airplane.

An airplane in flight, a photograph of racing pilot J. Doolittle.

Panorama of the stands with spectators.

Doolittle’s airplane during the speed record setting.

Mountain landscape (top).

View of part of a city block (top).

Policemen pushing back the crowd.

An airplane flies past the Capitol dome.

A biplane performing aerobatics.

Landing of a biplane with a man standing on the upper wing.

American fighter planes in flight during World War II. A bomber flies by.

An aircraft carrier on a combat mission in 1942. Carrier-based aircraft warm up their engines before takeoff.

American bombers in flight.

Bombing enemy territory.

A Soviet plane performs an aerobatic maneuver.

Stalin I.V., Dimitrov G.M. accept congratulations from pioneers on the Mausoleum tribune in 1936. People on the streets of Moscow.

A children's carousel of planes during the May Day demonstration on Red Square.

A story about the Soviet SB bomber.

Newsreel of air battles during the Great Patriotic War.

French military personnel inspect planes at an airfield in the second half of the 1920s.

Photos of Ramon Delmotte's Caudron plane, which set another speed record.

Newsreel of an air show in France in the 1930s.

The story of the successes of Soviet aviation and the meeting between Stalin and Chkalov on May 2, 1935, is accompanied by newsreel footage of the achievements of Soviet aviation in the late 1930s.

The face of pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki.

The propellers are spinning.

Aircraft controls.

Portrait and photographs of Howard Hughes near an airplane of his own design.

Newsreel of American air shows in the 1930s.

Hughes's airplane makes an emergency landing.

Hitler and Goering on the balcony of a building during a Nazi rally in 1939. Luftwaffe airplanes in flight.

Preparation for flights and flights of the Messerschmitt-209 fighter.

A swastika on the vertical stabilizer of an airplane, a story about German airplanes at the beginning of World War II. Newsreel of air battles during the Great Patriotic War and the work of aviation industry enterprises.

Aircraft assembly at a Soviet plant.

Luftwaffe and Allied aircraft during air battles.

Soviet fighters take off.