A film about the history and latest achievements of Soviet aviation.
Boys on the seashore. Seagull. TU-144, Yak-40 airplanes. Designers in the airplane cabin. Blueprints. Work of assemblers. Instruments. Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute. Academician N. Ye. Zhukovsky. Scientists in the laboratory. The first passenger airplane. IL-76, PO-2 airplanes. Models of Soviet airplanes. Female aviators. Bomber. Ilya Muromets airplane. Tupolev airplanes. V. Chkalov's crew at the wintering station. Meeting of designers with A. N. Tupolev. Aerobatic figures. Military airplanes. Bombers during World War II. Work of designers A. V. Ilyushin and A. S. Yakovlev during the war. Airplanes in the north. Ambulance aviation. Agricultural airplane spraying fertilizers. Antey. Sheremetyevo Airport. Dispatch service. Pilots in the cockpit. Radars.
Seagulls over the sea – general, panorama.
Boys watching a seagull in flight – general.
Airplanes flying – general.
Boy watching – cr.
Poster in the museum – image of Russian Navy officer Alexander Mozhaisky with a model of an “aircraft projectile” - general, panorama.
Assembly of TU-144 and Yak-40 aircraft in factory shops – general.
Assemblers at work – general, cr, panorama.
Design bureau – female employee in a Pullman – cr, departure.
Ground laboratory equipped with modern electronic computing equipment; checking the monitor – cr, panorama, medium.
Instruments – cr, panorama.
Airplanes at the airfield – general, panorama.
Newsreel from the 1930s.
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute – general, (exterior).
Portrait of the outstanding Russian scientist, Academician N.E. Zhukovsky – medium, zoom in.
A group of employees, Academician Zhukovsky among them – general, Poland.
Designers in the institute’s laboratory – general, medium.
The first domestic airplanes – general, Poland, small.
The Il-76 airplane taxis, takes off, in the air.
Airplanes on display in museums: the PO-8 training airplane designed by Polikarpov, jet aircraft of obsolete design, the Russian multi-engine airship Ilya Muromets, the famous Tupolev airplanes, and others.
Newsreel from the 1930s: Training female pilots on PO-2 airplanes; V. Chkalov and other participants in the non-stop flight Moscow – USA at the airfield – medium, Poland.
An airplane flies by, lands at the wintering site – general.
The oldest designer, academician Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev – kr.; at a meeting – gen., zoom.
Chief aircraft designer Alexei Andreevich Tupolev and other designers inspect an airplane – gen., gen.
The TU-144 airplane in the air – gen.
A group of airplanes in the air – gen.
Designers standing – A.I. Mikoyan, A.S. Yakovlev, S.V. Ilyushin and others – gen., panorama.
Airplane in the air – performing aerobatic maneuvers – gen., kr.
Pilot in the cockpit – kr.
Diagram of Nesterov’s “Dead Loop”, panorama of his portrait.
Military supersonic jet aircraft at the airfield, taking off, in the air, landing.
Radar – general, Wed.
A pilot passes by – general, Poland.
The pilot closes the cockpit window – Wed.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Soviet bombers fly, shells explode.
Members of the flight crew before takeoff – Wed.
A fighter pilot fastens his helmet – Wed.
Aircraft designer S.V. Ilyushin and the famous test pilot V.K. Pilots pass by, among them aircraft designer Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev – Wed, Poland. A.S. Yakovlev at work in the design bureau – Wed, general; in his office – general, Wed (on the wall is a portrait of his son Sergei).
Young designer Sergei Yakovlev, creating aircraft for civilian flights, in the design bureau – general, Wed, panorama of one of his latest works – the model of the Yak-42 aircraft.
Aeroflot helps the national economy in exploring new oil fields, helps fishermen find schools of fish, works on the Polar passenger routes; helps provide medical care; in agriculture.
The Antey aircraft – general, panorama.
Unloading the aircraft, a tractor leaving – general, panorama.
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport – general, panorama, departure.
Airplanes on the airfield: taxiing, taking off, landing, among them – Soviet-made aircraft belonging to foreign companies.
Passengers getting off and going up the stairs – general.
Motor coaches carrying luggage – general, panorama.
Airport control tower – general, Wed.
Airplane in the air – general.
The work of the aircraft crew during flight – Wed, Poland.
Radars – general, Poland.