"YAKs" in the Air

"YAKs" in the Air , 1971 (48:25)

Annotation: The film is about the history of establishment of the Design Bureau under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev, a Russian aircraft designer.

Source description 1: A flight of jet planes are performing aerobatics in the air.
The Earth through the illuminator; a cloud.
A plane is landing, the grass is bowing, the plane is suddenly flying away into the thick of clouds.
A passenger plane (TU-?) is taxiing up on the airdrome. The pilot-in-command P. F. Tumasev is answering a correspondent’s questions on the plane ladder.
Guinean pilots are telling about their training in the USSR on the Moscow airdrome. A plane IL-18 of a Guinean air carrier is taxiing up. An Indian plane is taxiing up. A panorama of the airdrome and planes of different trademarks.
Pilots dressed in suits for high-altitude and high-speed flights, are telling about their first flights.
A Yak plane is flying in the air at a high speed; the plane traces in the sky.
The aircraft designer Alexander Yakovlev is walking along the garden.
A newsreel of 1966. - Alexander Yakovlev is being congratulated on his sixtieth birthday by the aircraft designer A. I. Mikoyan and others.
The first plane designed by A. S. Yakovlev, created in 1927.
Alexander Yakovlev is starting the plane motor by rotating the propeller.
Alexander Yakovlev is in the design office. Aircraft designers are at the drawing boards. The Deputy Chief Designer S. G. Kulagin is talking to the design office employees.
The Deputy Chief Designer S. G. Mordovin is working at the drawing. Foremen are making details for the reduced copy of the new design plane. O. K. Gaevsky is managing the foremen’s work.
The design office workers are lining the delineators by the drawings in the plaza hall. Finished delineators of the plane details. An assembly workshop of a new plane prototype nmodel. The chief ldesigner R. S. Petrov is supervising the assembly of a plywood model of the new plane in the workshop. Alexander Yakovlev and the representatives of the Soviet air carrier “Aeroflot” (the customer of the plane) are examining the model.
Assembling of the first sample – test model. Workers at different assembling sites. The chief engineer L. I. Mashey is checking assemblage of the plane details. Testing the plane instruments and equipment in a pressure chamber in artificially created conditions of stratospheric altitude, low pressure, Arctic freezing. Check-up of the chassis in conditions of various loadings.
The design office workers are preparing the plane for the test with heavy loadings.
A newsreel from 1960 to 1969. Year: 1966.
A newsreel from 1917 to 1929. Year: 1927.

Source description 2: Durability testing of the first new plane by means of loading devices in a laboratory of statistical tests. The design office employees are at work during testing. Alexander Yakovlev is watching the test.
The plane Yak-40 is leaving the hangar; the test flight. The earth, clouds shot from the plane.
A pre-revolutionary newsreel - Moscow, a square in the central part of the city, trams, carriers, passers-by, a market. The entrance to the cinema “Illusion”. A balloon with people in the air. People on the Khodynskoe Field. The poster: “Rossinsky’s Flight” against the people. People are coming to the Hodynskoe Field in cabs. A plane is taxiing up, flying over the field.
Photos of the first Russian pilots: S. Utochkin, M. Yefimov, N. Popov. Rossinsky boarding a plane, in the plane cabin. A plane is flying by.
Books by Alexander Yakovlev’s books “Rasskazy aviakonstruktora”[“Aircraft Designer’s Stories”], “Tsel Zhizni”[“The Goal of the Life”].
A newsreel of the 1920-s – workers are working at the construction site, a wind band is playing; a blast furnace commissioning, meeting. The first tractor in the village, a column of motor vehicles is goingby. A detachment of members of the Osoaviakhim [Society of Rendering Assistance to the Defense, Aircraft and Chemical Construction] is walking along the street in gas masks. A glider launching, an inscription on the board: “The Red Army is the Smithy of ProletarianVictories”. A balloon is rising in the air, a peasant is standing on the plane wing in bast shoes. The plane “Krasnaya Presnya” [“Red Presnya”, a Moscow district].
Photo - Parade of the Red Army in the Red Square, Lenin, Ya. M. Sverdlov, and others are in the Red Square. A plane is flying by over the Red Square, demonstrators are marching by.
1924 – The representatives of the Society of Air Feet Friends are giving the squadron “Lenin” to representatives of the Air Forces on the Moscow Central Airdrome. The Soviet statesman Mikhail Kalinin and A. I. Mikoyan are speaking at the ceremony. Accordion players are performing in the square. A group of planes is flying by.
Students of the Air Force Academy are at the plane on the Hodynskoe Field. A plane (the so-called “bookshelf”) is being rolled out of a canvass hangar. The beginning of the aircraft building in the USSR – workers are in the plant workshop, mounting an aircraft engine. A photo of young Alexander Yakovlev.
1927 – Krasnaya Presnya Komsomol [Young Communist League] members are assembling a plane in a workshop. Old planes are at the dump. Komsomol members are selecting details for assembling the plane in a heap of broken planes. The plane, constructed by the members of aircraft construction study group under Yakovlev’s design.
1927. - Alexander Yakovlev is on the airdrome near the plane. Alexander Yakovlev and the pilot Yury Piontkovsky are boarding the plane to carry out a test flight. The pilot is in the cabin, the plane is taxiing, taking off. The building of the Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky [a distinguished Russian aircraft designer]. A photo - Alexander Yakovlev – an Academy student.
Alexander Yakovlev is near a sports plane made under his design.
1929 - Participants of a pioneer meeting are on the airdrome. A plane constructed under Yakovlev’s design on the account of the money collected by the pioneers is on the airdrome; the plane is taking off, the plane is in the air.
Graduates of the Zhukovsky Academy, which Alexander Yakovlev graduated from in 1931, are marching by.
A newsreel of the 1930-s - a fighter “I-5” and a plane “Ya-7” are taking off. A. S. Yakovlev is near the plane “Ya-7”.
The earth shot from the plane. Strong rain, the gusts are tearing off leaves, it is raining.
Planes of A. Yakovlev’s design are taking off and landing.
Documentary newsreel before 1917.
Documentary newsreel from 1917 to 1929.

Source description 3: A newsreel - 1938-39. People who have arrived in the suburban electric train are going to the Aircraft Parade in the Moscow district of Tushino. Spectators are on the airfield.
Planes before the Aircraft Parade beginning.
Planes are flying.
Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov, A. A. Andreev, A. S. Yakovlev and the test-pilot Y. Piontkovsky are on the platform rostrum during the Aircraft Parade.
A newsreel of the late 30-s - Planes are flying by over the Red Square.
The plane “Maxim Gorky”, designed by Tupolev, is flying by.
A. N. Tupolev is watching the plane flight. A plane designed by Ilyushin is flying by.
A plane of Polikarpov’s design is in the air. The pilot V. Kokkinaki is boarding the plane, the pilot M. Gromov is boarding the plane, and the aviatress V. Grizodubova is in the plane. The pilot Valery Chkalov with his wife and his son are going by car along the Moscow streets. Training planes of Yakovlev’s design are taking off. Mikhail Kalinin is presenting awards to Alexander Yakovlev and Yury Piontkovsky. Alexander Yakovlev is making a return speech.
Moscow, 1937 – the Kremlin, the buildings of the hotel “Moskva” [“Moscow”] and the Council of Ministers, passers-by in the streets, traffic. Alexander Yakovlev is talking to the designer N. Polikarpov in the relation to creating the bomber “BB-22” and a fighter “Yak-1” in his office, showing a plane model. Alexander Yakovlev and Nikolay Polikarpov.
The aircraft designers A. I. Mikoyan, M. O. Gurevich, and others are working on the drawings of the new fighter "Mig".

The aircraft designer S.A.Lavochkin is in his study room.
The aircraft designer S. V. Ilyushin is working in the design office.
Testing a new plane of A.Yakovlev in the wind tunnel.
The first take off of the “Yak” trademark.
A photo of the test-pilot S. P. Suprun.
A newsreel of 1941 - cloudy sky, a dawn above Moscow. Sound-locators, soldiers are at the radio equipment. Fighters “Yak” are in the air. A poster “The Motherland Is Calling”. Militia men are getting weapon, walking along the street. Evacuation of the children. Workers are loading machines for evacuation. A train with the equipment of industrial plants is going by. Works at the evacuated factories - workers are installing the machines, assembling the planes; a conveyor.
Fighters “Yak” are on the airdrome and in the air. Pilots are taking the oath. A bomber "PB-2" is diving, bombs are being dropped, the railway junction is on fire. Battle planes of Ilyushin's design nicknamed “Black death” by the Germans are in the air, battle planes are on the airdrome, an air fight.
The peasant. M. Golovaty is presenting the pilots a plane purchased by his personal savings. Railwaymen are presenting the plane “Rtishchevsky zheleznodorozhnik” [“Rtishchev Railwaymen”] to the pilots.
A photo - A.Yakovlev is giving his plane to the pilot P. A. Pokryshev. A fighter “Yak” is in the air. A German newsreel - German armies are at their disposition, German planes are in the air. A Soviet fighter is in the air, the pilot P. A. Pokryshev is in a cabin. A fragment from a newsreel film of the war years - air fight of pilot Pokryshev flying "Yak" against a German fighter. A German plane is burning and falling. General P. A. Pokryshev is walking along the airdrome, telling about the planes “Yak”. A photo of P. Pokryshev during the wartime.
A landscape of the Crimea. A bronze bust of the pilot S.Amet-Khan in the town of Alupka. Amet-Khan with his son are in the boat; passing along the streets of Alupka; telling about his flights within the Great Patriotic War [the Soviet People’s participation in Second World War in 1941-1945]. The twice hero of the Soviet Union, pilot D. Glinka is remembering the flights in the planes “Yaks” during the war. A photo - the pilot D.Glinka. The war-time newsreel - pilots D. Glinka and B. Glinka are at the warplane. Broken German military equipment, the German planes are on fire.
A newsreel from 1930 to1940.
A newsreel from 1941 to 1945.

Source description 4: A newsreel - 1943. Fireworks in Moscow in honor of the liberation of the cities of Orel and Belgorod. Exulting people in the square. Military operations of artillery and aircraft in the Bryansk, Western and Central Fronts to liberate Orel. “Katusha” cannon are shooting. A massive attack of tanks of the Steppe and Voronezh Fronts near Belgorod. The planes “Yaks” are in the air. The Soviet pilots and the French pilots of the squadron “Normandy – Neman” are on the airdrome. Air fight between a plane “Yak” with a German plane. Rewarding of the French pilots. The French pilots are flying home in the planes “Yak-3”, seeing-off on the airdrome. The city of Paris, the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, flowers are at the memorial plate in memory of the French pilots. The memorial plate on the wall of the French mission in Moscow with the names of French pilots perished during the war.
A newsreel - exulting people in the Red Square on May 9, 1945. Inscriptions on the Reichstag, left by the Soviet soldiers who assaulted Berlin. 1944. – Mikhail Kalinin is presenting the Orders of Suvorov [a great Russian military leader of the XVIII century] to the aircraft designers S. Ilyushin, S. Lavochkin, A. Tupolev and A. Yakovlev. Reconstruction of the national economy after the war termination: a hoisting crane is transferring an unexploded bomb, workers are clearing the mine; workshops of industrial plants.
A newsreel of the late 40-s - A. Yakovlev is in the design office talking to an employee about the creation of a jet plane. A. I. Mikoyan is in the garden on the bench writing down the calculations of the new plane. A. N. Tupolev is v in the design office. Flight tests of the experimental plane of Bolohovitinov with rocket propulsion. The pilot Bakhchivanzhi is boarding the plane, the plane is taking off, landing roughly, with jolts. Airdrome orderlies are running to the landing place. The pilot Bahchivanzhi after the successful test flights. A photo of Bakhchivanzhi who died during the 9-th test flight. The pilot M. Ivanov is carrying out a test flight on a jet “Yak”. A portrait of M. Ivanov who died during a test flight. Flights of the first jet planes “Mig-9”, “Yak-15” in summer of 1946.
Flights of the jet planes, flying by over the Red Square. 1947 – the Aircraft Parade in Tushino, spectators on the stands. Planes are performing aerobatics, the first jet “Yak” is performing aerobatics in the air. Pilots in the cabins of the jet planes of different trademarks. Alexander Yakovlev is talking to employees in the design office. The helicopter with two propellers named “A Flying Carriage”, created in Yakovlev’s design office, is in the air, landing. Unloading of the helicopter – people are coming out, horses are being led out, a car is going out. The helicopter is taking off. Pilots are boarding a glider "Yak-14" (a cargo glider capable to quietly cross the front line), a vehicle with a gun is being loading into the glider. The plane with a glider in tow is taking off. Four planes “Yak-18” and upgraded training aircrafts “UT-2” are in the air. A plane “Yak-18” designed and constructed by a group of young designers: S. Yakovlev (Alexander Yakovlev’s son), Y. Yankevich, V. Prishkolnikov, S. Neunylov, is flying. The designers S. Yakovlev, Y. Yankevich, V. Prishkolnikov, S. Neunylov are in the design office at work. Designers are preparing the plane “Yak-18” for the World Championship on Aerobatics with the help of the pilot Martemyanov. Martemyanov is the plane cabin, the plane is in the air. Planes of different trademarks from the different countries are on the airdrome before the beginning of the World Championship on Aerobatics. Championship participants are getting ready for the performances. Soviet pilots in the planes “Yak-18” are performing aerobatics in the air. Judges, participants and spectators are observing the flights. Journalists and press photographers are on the airdrome. The Championship winners, the Soviet pilots V. Martemyanov and G. Korchuganova. A newsreel from 1941 to 1945.
A newsreel from 1946 to 1959.

Source description 5: A plane “Yak-18 PM” is on the Moscow airdrome. The French pilot, competitor of the World Championship on Aerobatics M. Charolet is speaking about the plane. The Spanish pilot Costanve is in the “Yak-18 PM” cabin. Records in the welocme book, made by pilots of different countries, about excellent qualities of the plane “Yak-18 PM”. A. S. Yakovlev and the former commander of the squadron “Normandy-Neman” Cuffo are talking at the airdrome. Paris - a view from the Tour d'Eiffel. The plane “Yak-3” stored in the Paris Aviation Museum. A. S. Yakovlev and Cuffo are coming up to the new sports jet plane “Yak-32”on the Moscow airdrome during the Championship on Aerobatics, examining the plane. The pilot A. Bogorodsky is sitting in the plane cabin. The aircraft designers Alexander Yakovlev and S.Yakovlev are near the plane “Yak-32” on the airdrome. The plane is performing aerobatics during the flight. The Deputy Chief Designer M. G. Bendersky is receiving representatives of the Air Forces.
Assembling of various models of planes at the factory. The design office laboratory. The head of scientific-research works K. S. Kildisheva is near devices. The test-pilot V. Mukhin is piloting a new plane model in laboratory conditions. Data processing machines which fix the pilot’s movements. Alexander Yakovlev is talking to the design office workers. The pilot V. Mukhin is near a mannequin of pilot. The mannequin is being prepared for ejection. The pilot is dressing a suit for a flight in a supersonic plane; the pilot is in the plane cabin in a high-pressure suit. Test flight of the new plane “Yak”, the plane is performing aerobatics, landing with a brake parachute. The aircraft designers Alexander Yakovlev and S.Ilyushin are having a rest in a summer cottage. A plane is taking off.

Directors: Soloveva N.

Operators: Khavchin A., Savin A.

Script writers: Markusha A.

Composers: Marutaev M.

Announcer: Khmara L.