One Height After Another One

One Height After Another One , 1972 (20:37)

Annotation: The film is about the history of establishment of TsAGI (the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute), about the design bureau of Andrey Tupolev (a famous Soviet engineer and aircraft designer).

History: The film is dedicated to the 50 th anniversary of the team work of aircraft under the guidance of AN Tupolev. Models and photographs of aircraft, newsreel tests.

Film description: 50 years of design Tupolev design bureau. Museum. Zhukovsky. Tests aircraft. Jobs AN Tupolev to build the aircraft.

Source description 1: The film tells about the history of establishing the aviation scientific center – Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, about the design office of A.N. Tupolev.


Aircraft models and photos, newsreel of tests.

Work on creating the airplanes “Ant-1” (1992), “Аnt-2” (the first all-metal one, 1924.), “Аnt-3”, “Аnt-25” (1929).
The pilot Shestakov’s flight on a twin-engine plane “Ant-4” from Moscow to New York.
The first flights of the five-engine plane “Аnt-14”.
Rescuing ship the crew of the ship “Chelyuskin” by an air plane “Ant-4” designed by Tupolev.
Deplaning of the women of Оtto Schmidt (SP-1) to the North Pole from anairplane “Ant-6”.

Source description 2: The military airplanes of the Tupolev workshop - “Ant-42”, “Ant-40”, the bomber aircraft “TU-16”.
The first postwar passenger aircraft “TU-70”.
Creating the passenger jet airplanes “TU-104”, “ТU-144” and “ТU-154”.
Assembling the airplane “Ant-20” (1934).

Directors: Kristi L.

Operators: Generalov N.

Script writers: Agranovskiy A.

Announcer: Khmara L.