The Powerful Wings.

The Powerful Wings. , 1961 (47:31)

Annotation: A film about the Air Show of 1961 dedicated to the USSR Air Fleet Day.

Film description: Air parade in Moscow: Muscovites on arrival Tushino airfield. Pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin signs autographs. At the Government's platform: Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan, Mikhail Suslov, Brezhnev and others-bearers Helicopters fly over the airfield, helicopters, carrying models of satellites, helicopters, cranes, anti-submarine helicopters, passenger helicopters. Speeches aerial gymnasts. Flying gliders over the airfield. Masters of the air show flight sport "head to head." Sports airplanes fly systems - "diamond". Aircraft: IL-18, YAK-32, TU-104, AN-10, AN-24, TU-114 in the air. Speech paratroopers: implementation of individual and group jumps. Airplanes Air Force demonstrate mastery aerobatics: implementation of vertical slides, barrels, picketing, etc. Flying supersonic fighter aircraft, launch vehicles.

Source description 1: A blue sky with blanks of white clouds.
Clouds over the ground.
Groups of pilots-sportsmen (young men and girls) and pilots of air force are passing-by.
Pilots are standing in formation.
Photo: a portrait of the world record-holder Georgy Mosolov (in a high-altitude pilot space suit ).
The pilot Mosolov is speaking.
Medal of International aviation federation awarded to Mosolov for the speed achievements in the air.
The pilot Konstantin Kokkinaki who was awarded with the FAI (International Aeronautical Federation) medal for the speed record on a one hundred kilometer three-cornered route is speaking.
The 34 times record breaker Ivan Suhomlin.
The eldest test pilot Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki.
Model of the airplane “IL-18”.
The newsreel of 1919-1925:
Airplanes of 1919 are rising in the air. Photo: Lenin, Sverdlov and others in the Red Square are looking at the airplanes in sky.
Preparation of the airplane to the flight Moscow – Tokyo in 1925. An airplane of the 1929 model “Krilya Sovetov” made in USSR.
Academician Chaplygin and the employees of the Central Aerohydrodynamical Institute named after Zhukovsky are welcoming a Soviet airplane.
Newsreel of the 20 – 30-s:
People are welcoming the pilot Gromov, getting back from the flight to Europe on the flying field.
Gromov at the steering wheel of airplane.
Airplanes of the 30-s are flying over the Red Square.
The Pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki after the flight to the stratosphere.

An airplane ANT-26 is starting.
Aircraft designing bureau in its working.
Aerodynamics are exploring the model in laboratory terms on aerodynamic devices.
A screen with the image of waves of a sealing air.
Computers that help people to make computations while constructing the airplanes.
A ramjet TU-104.
A jet-propelled and with 30 piston motors equal to the force to the ramjet TU-104.
A forebody of TU-104.
Passengers on the Vnukovo air field are going to the airplane.
Passengers are riding a lorry convoy to the airplane.
A pilot ready to the flight.
“TU-104” in the air.
“IL-18” in the air.
A pilot in the cockpit.
Controller's service at the air field.
Operators of the controller's service are at work.
Weather forecasters are mapping the weather.
A device for the indication of weather.
TU-104 over the clouds.
Placards devoted to the Soviet Air Force.
The pilots of the Air Forces of the USSR are passing-by.
The pilot Shvetsov is entering the cockpit.
Lieutenant Colonel Fokin in the cockpit.
The cameramen Alexander Istomin and Eugeny Yakun are taking their seats in the airplanes.
Jet-fighters are rising from the runway of the air field.
Parachutists are preparing for jumps: swinging on swings, jumping on a trampoline, are crossing over the river on ropes, jumping into water, swimming in a complete accoutrement.
Silk pied parachutes are spread on the field; parachutists are checking up parachutes before a jump on an airparade.
Sky divers are folding parachutes.
Hands are folding shrouds.
The commander is checking up the sky divers readiness .
The parachute airborne landing is leaving an airplane; the white points of drawing parachutes are visible.
Members of the parachute airborne landing group are performing the protracted jump.
A girl glider-pilot.
Pilots-sportsmen are preparing for the airparade.
Red searchlights are burning in the air field in bad weather; an airplane is flying over searchlights.
Controller's service is working at the air field; airplanes stand behind the window.
Airplanes on the air field are visible through the window inundated by the rain streams.
An aviation placard gets wet in the rain.
Woman’s feet hurrying in the strong rain.
Passers-by are passing in the rain.
The streams of rain are flowing on the window glass.
Smiling girls are talking over the phone.

Source description 2: A cloudy sky.
Air force flags of the USSR and the Republics-members of the Soviet Union.
The banner “Glory to Soviet Aviation”.
In a sunny July day the Muscovites are going to Tushino for an airparade, they are crossing the Moskva River by a pontoonbridge.
A huge number of people in the Tushino air field before the beginning of the parade.
Rows of cars, busses and covered trucks in the air field.
A command post of the parade.
Parade commander Marshal of the aviation Rudenko on the command post.
Tents, awnings, stalls for the audience in the parade.
Spectators are buying flowers.
In the air field the first pilot-astronaut Yuri Gagarin is giving autographs.
The guest tribune.
On the tribune of the Central Flying Club named after Chkalov there are the leaders of the Communist Party and the Government: Mikoyan, Leonid Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Nikita Khrushchev, Malinovsky, Vershinin, guests.
Panorama of the airfield before the beginning of the parade.
The clock of Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Fanfarates on the air field are playing “Listen all”.
Multicoloured firework at day-time.
Airplanes are flying in a line representing a word “Lenin”.
Helicopters-standard-bearers are flying over the air field.
Helicopters with the colours of the Air Forces, DOSAAF (Voluntary Association for Assistance to the Army, Aviation and Fleet), air fleet are closing the file.
Helicopters are carring the models of Earth satellites, space rocket.
Animation: starting dates of Soviet Earth satellites and space rockets.
A helicopter with the model of the spaceship “Vostok-1” [“East-1”] is flying.
On the tribune there are Furtseva, Yuri Gagarin, Mikoyan, Malinovskiy, Nikita Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev.
The pilot-astronaut German Titov –is getting out of an altitude chamber after the 7 day long staying in the course of preparing to a space flight.
Girls in flying suits are laying flower bunches to the foot of the Lenin sculpture at the entrance to the aero club building, the leaders of the Communist Party and the Government with flowers are present.
A flying crane helicopter constructed by Mile is flying; a helicopter is carrying and setting a cottage of geologists in the field.
On leaving a cottage in the field, the flying crane helicopter is rising into the air.
Heavy transport helicopters over the air field; helicopters are landing and tractors with battle rockets are being unload from them.
Foreign representatives are making notes in their notebooks.
Vehicles with battle rockets are passing in the air field.
Anti-submarine helicopters are flying.
A passenger helicopter is flying, a rotary-wing aircraft beside.
A rotary-wing aircraft is straighting down to set point and is straighting up in the air from the ground.
The helicopter “MI-1” is flying in reverse.
Helicopters support aerialists over the air field; aerialists are making exercises.
Audience in the air field.

Source description 3: 2 sail-planes are performing meeting aerobatics.
An audience in the airfield is watching the sail-planes.
12 sail-planes are performing group aerobatics.
A plane is flying on reverse.
Masters of air sport Vladimir Voloven and Vadim Ovsyankin are demonstrating a “head-to-head” flight.
A pilot in the cockpit.
Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Furtseva and others standing on the governmental tribune during the Air Parade.
Four sporting airplanes are performing aerobatics by a line-up “rhombus”.
Airplanes are looping round and making the reverse loop.
The girls who were carrying the flags of the republics on helicopters are passing among the audience of the field.
Eight sporting airplanes are in the air.
In the cockpit there are girls: the technician Marina Vasileva, student Ljudmila Gavrilenko, pilot-instructor Catherine Travkina, dressmaker Nina Surovtseva.
Girls on eight airplanes performing group aerobatics figures: loops, spiral and others.
Airplanes are rolling.
In the air 21 sporting airplanes are performing group aerobatics figures.
The pilot Shvachko in a cockpit.
The aircraft designer, twice Hero of Socialistic Labor Yakovlev is looking.
The pilot Arkadiy Bogorodskiy is getting ready to a flight in the air field.
Bogorodskiy in an airplane “YK-32” is demonstrating individual aerobatics: backfall-roll, barrel-roll and others.
A pilot headlonging.
Bogorodsky in the cockpit of a jet plane YK-32 while performing aerobatics.
The ground taken from a diving flight.
The pilot’s hands on control levers.
An air fleet column of the air fleet headed by a flagship “TU -114” in the air.
“TU-114” in the air.
“TU-124”.
“TU-104”.
“IL-18”.
“AN-10”.
“AN-24” (groups of 3 airplanes).
An airborne is getting ready to board airplanes in a Moscow suburb air field.
Men of the airborne troops are landing on airplanes.

Source description 4: Airscrews are working.
The airplanes with men of airborne troops are taxiing, and than flying up in turn.
Paratroopers in an airplane.
Airplanes with paratroopers in the air.
The audience in the “Tushinskiy” airfield.
Airplane in the air.
The parachutists are jumping out of the airplane and falling in the protracted jump.
A group of parachutists are performing the protracted jump in the air.
Two triples are jumping from an airplane and performing the protracted jump by threes.
Landing parachutists are extinguishing domes.
Girls-parachutists in the air field after the protracted jump.
Foreigners in an airparade.
A landing airplane in the air.
A pilot in the cockpit of an airplane.
Paratroopers on a signal are getting ready to the jump.
The light signal in an airplane.
Paratroopers are jumping from an airplane.
In the air there appear white rip parachutes appear in the air, than parachute canopies open (taken from the earth).
Paratroopers with multicoloured canopies in the air.
Parachutists are landing.
Major-general Lisov is looking at the landing.
The flag of the Soviet Air Forces..
Generals of the Air forces of the USSR on a command post.
The supersonic fighter piloted by Major Shvetsov is performing the figures of aerial acrobatics: vertical hill, barrel-roll, revolution and others in the air
The concentrated face of pilot Shvetsov.
The airplane MIG-21 in the vertical dive.
The clouds taken from the inverted airplane.
On a governmental tribune: Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Vershinin, Givkov and others.
Pilot Shvetsov in a cockpit, flying.
The flight of three jet-planes of the lieutenant colonel Fokin is approaching the air field.
Fighters are performing pilotage by a “Rhombus” line-up.
Fokin is leading an airplane.
The pilot’s hand on the control device.
Foreign military attaches are observing the parade.
The jet plane MIG-17 in the air from which the operator Istomin is filming.
Istomin is filming.

Source description 5: In the air over the air field five fighters of the colonel Manturov are performing the figures of aerial group acrobatics.
Colonel Manturov in the cockpit of an airplane.
The clouds filmed from a quickly flying airplane.
On the tribune Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikoyan, Malinovskiy, Givkov, Furtseva, Gagarin and others staying.
The command post of the parade.
Pilots before the group flight are synchronizing watches.
General Astakhov, the pilot Baryshev and others are boarding the airplanes.
The fighters fly up.
Missile carriers are flying up.
Panorama of the column of heavy airplanes is headed by a heavy turbo propeller aircraft.
The group of missile carriers is fling.
Two-funneled missile carriers are fling.
In the air is a group of marine airplanes.
Pilot Kalina’s airplane is flying.
On a guest tribune there is the aircraft designer Mikoyan.
Foreign military attaches on the parade.
The supersonic distant missile carries of Kravtsov’s subdivision are flying.
In the air supersonic fighters with rockets under wings (the pilots of Shinkarenko, Kasnorik, Sobolevsky’s subdivision conduct the airplanes).
A plane with a liquid ramjet is flying; an airplane is rising, gaining flight speed.
Panorama – a supersonic fighter is rising from the Tushinskiy air field, demonstrating flight properties of the machine.
The audience at the air field.
Slogans on the airplane armor.

Directors: Boykov V.

Operators: Oshurkov M.