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The passenger aircraft you are currently on board is convenient, fast and safe. And, if you think about it, this is just a fantastic human achievement: a hundred-ton car flies, leaning on the air. It allows you to breathe at a height where even the most experienced climber would not do without an oxygen mask. And a spacesuit. Right next to you are engines in which fuel is burning, and you are drinking soda from the refrigerator. The passenger plane is a collection of marvels and human achievements compressed into one streamlined body. But man in his history has created such aircraft, against which your airliner is the height of banality.
1) Flying chariot
Vimana

Flight times: unknown.
Type: Military(bomber, fighter) Executive.
Distinguishing feature: most likely fictional.
That's interesting, and the ancient Indian epic "Mahabharata" and the book "Kama Sutra" * are considered the property of Indian culture. But they do not believe the first book at all, and the second is considered almost a textbook. Although many researchers just call the second book fantastic.
The Vimanas, the use of which is described in the Mahabharata and some other sources, are called chariots, but the authors describe take-offs, landings and fights with such rapture and such knowledge of details that you willy-nilly think. After all, a culture that considered it necessary to decorate its temples with reliefs with scenes of sex, ** could think of such a thing.
*5/6 of which is devoted to how to be a good citizen and husband. Why are these chapters of the book constantly forgotten?
** Hindu entertainers thus scared away the shy goddess of lightning.

2) Vakhmistrov Circus
St. Petersburg
Flight times: 1937-1942 (1943)
Type: Military(flying aircraft carrier-bomber).
Distinguishing feature: The only successful flying aircraft carrier project.

We present to your attention the world's only combat flying aircraft carrier. "SPB" (Composite Dive Bomber). A unique aircraft, as usual generated by the urgent need to destroy something somewhere. Summer of the 41st, the German army is advancing on all fronts, and the Red Army Air Force urgently needs a means that combines the flight range and the ability to deliver pinpoint bombing strikes. Similar projects have been developed in the USSR since 1931, and the time has come for the SBP to prove itself. The “Vakhmistrov Circus,” as it was often called, consisted of a TB-3 bomber (a legendary machine in itself) and two I-16 dive bombers suspended under its wings. Usually such unique vehicles perform either poorly or very poorly in battle, but the SPB turned out to be so effective that the command received more than once requests for the urgent production of new "Carriers". But the TB-3 had already been taken out of production, and it was unrealistic to start it again in a war. Five SPBs fought successfully until at least the middle of the 42nd.

3) Musculolet
Gossamer Albatross
Flight times: 1979
Type: experimental
Distinguishing feature: Built solely on the principle of "Are you weak?".

A musculolet is a vehicle that can fly only with the help of human muscle power. Before the invention of normal internal combustion engines, people tried hundreds of times to take off on muscle cars. And they never succeeded. But Brian Allen did it, his plastic-cellophane Gossamer Albatross flew over the English Channel on June 12, 1979. All the time of the flight, a professional cyclist pedaled, rotating the only propeller of the aircraft. After that, the lucky Brian received the cash prize promised for such a feat.

4) "Weapon of Retribution"
Unique developments of Germany in 1939-45.
Flight times: 1939-1945
Type: Military, various purposes.
Distinguishing feature: A variety of both the most advanced and frankly strange ideas.

German scientists during the Second World War are a unique, if you will, subculture. Historians studying their developments alternately admire their genius, then seriously discuss the varieties of hallucinogenic mushrooms that Nazi researchers could use when inventing SUCH. We are interested in aviation, and in this area, German scientists created so much diarrhea that would be enough for the entire list. There are rocket planes, and V-1 projectiles, and “flying wings” ... even “flying saucers”. And this is only what managed to take off before the end of the war.
Hitler considered most of this fleet to be his "Weapon of Retribution", capable of turning the tide of the war. It didn't work out. But to build the most incredible aircraft - it turned out quite well. Look at the photo, even now this does not fly.

5) Flying tank
Project CT
Flight times: 1942
Type: military(disposable transport glider)
Distinguishing feature: A real flying tank.

The idea of ​​dropping tanks on the unprepared heads of enemies, which would immediately rush into battle, has been exciting the minds of military engineers since the time these tanks appeared. Now this is feasible: heavy aircraft drop armored vehicles by parachute, and a few meters from the ground, the jet braking system ensures a soft landing. But in the 40s they could not even dream of this, but they could well dream of the horror that tanks sow in the camp of the enemy, which suddenly appeared in the deep rear. The result of dreams: "KT project" - tank wings. The T-60 light tank was equipped with wings, after which it took off on a trailer from a heavy bomber. Tests have shown that the CT can fly and land on its own with a crew inside, but a very strong “tractor” is needed to transport it in the sky. Only Pe-8s came up, of which there were about 60, and all of them were engaged in deep bombardment of Germany. The project had to be closed and the T-60KT was able to surprise only the personnel of the Soviet airfield, where it suddenly landed.

6) Portable wings and rocket pack.
EXO-Wing and Bell Rocket Belt.
Flight times: 2008-present(EXO-Wing) and 1961-present("Bell Rocket Belt").
Type: experimental.
Distinguishing feature: Ultra-small aircraft.

Such devices can often be found in science fiction, but who would have thought that they are real. EXO-Wings are small wings with jet engines. No fuselage, except for a special heat-resistant suit and helmet. This is a unique vehicle, but at least it has wings, while the Bell Rocket Belt doesn't even have those. Few people know that rocket packs ceased to be a fantasy back in 1961, exactly 8 days after Gagarin's flight. And six months later, pilot Harold Graham, on maneuvers, started from a military amphibian, flew over a water obstacle and famously landed in front of Kennedy. According to eyewitnesses, the president watched the flight with his mouth open in amazement. Kennedy can be understood, a man with a rocket pack in the air looks simply unrealistic. And our sky would have long been filled with flying people, if it were not for the high price of a satchel, the flight height (about 10 meters) and, most importantly, the duration, which they have not been able to significantly increase so far - about 30 seconds.

7) Scandinavian gray planes
Unmarked aircraft over the Scandinavian countries in the 1930s.
Flight times: 1932 - 1938
Type: Unknown.
Distinguishing feature: What it was, so no one understood.

During this period, dozens of gray aircraft of various classes were noticed in the skies of Norway, Sweden and Finland, including those with floats and skis, flying sometimes with brightly lit cockpits, sometimes with engines turned off. The intensity of the flights was so high that the military command of the Scandinavian countries was forced to make excuses to the press for being unable to do anything. Norway used the Eagle cruiser to search for them, the Swedish Air Force lost (due to bad weather) two aircraft trying to find the airfields from which these violators take off. To no avail.
With the beginning of World War II, strange gray planes were forgotten. Neither the journalists, nor the military, nor the researchers (some of whom died trying to find the bases of the aircraft), could not figure out what kind of planes they were and who they belonged to.

8) Flying Beluga
Airbus A300-600ST (Beluga)
Flight times: 1994–present
Type: Transport.
Distinguishing feature: A small plane with a huge transport compartment.

Only the existence of special tasks generates such aircraft. The well-known aircraft manufacturer Airbus is forced to assemble aircraft from parts that are produced throughout Europe. But what if these parts are the wings of an aircraft or, even worse, its fuselage? The A300-600 Beluga (really looks like a beluga whale) has been a lifesaver for the company. A huge transport compartment holds fragments of other aircraft of the company, which are then assembled at a factory in Toulouse.

9) Airship
Ekranoplan KM
Flight times: 1966 – 1980
Type: Military(transport).
Distinguishing feature: the only aircraft that, according to the documents, passes as a ship.

Back in the 30s, engineers noticed a strange feature, near the ground, the planes suddenly significantly reduced their rate of descent, as if not wanting to touch the ground. But in those years, this effect only gave rise to many romantic stories about airplanes "loving the sky and not wanting to land." They really became interested only in the 60s in the USSR. Later, this phenomenon was called the "screen effect" - an additional lifting force that occurs near the surface itself (from a few centimeters to several meters).
The KM *** ekranoplan was the largest flying machine of its time. Although the flight height was only a few meters. Experimental model, took off in the 66th near Kaspiysk. Interestingly, the flag of the Navy was raised on the plane, and before launching this amphibian into the water, a bottle of champagne was broken on board. Despite the "airplane" appearance, despite the fact that pilots fly it, and even despite the main mode of transportation - flight, the KM was considered a ship.
*** The capital letters KM on board the ship in Western sources were deciphered as the "Caspian Monster". But the USSR never called military equipment so pretentiously. In fact, this is a "Layout Ship".

10) Space plane
SpaceShipOne
Flight times: 1994–present.
Type: Commercial spacecraft.
Distinguishing feature: The first of its kind.

SpaceShipOne is a unique space plane. If only because it was created by the private company Scaled Composites. In 2004, she won the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million pledge to a company that made two spaceflights in two weeks on the same ship. SpaceShipOne fulfilled all the conditions of the competition, climbed 112 kilometers and returned safely to Earth. It might have made our list simply because of its appearance, but it did something more: it went down in history as the first privately owned aircraft in space.
Interestingly, SpaceShipOne pilots are not astronauts. An astronaut is a person who has made at least one revolution around the Earth at an altitude of more than 100 kilometers. But then they are astronauts, because in the USA anyone who, even for a moment, has reached a height of 80 and a half kilometers is an astronaut.
Ps. Take a look at the photo. SpaceShipOne is the little plane below, everything else is the White Knight carrying it, lifting the space plane to a height of 14 kilometers.

Photographer Slavek Krajniewski loves airplanes and everything connected with them. Thanks to his hobby and work as a photographer, unique and very beautiful photographs of aircraft were obtained.

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1. The picture was taken at the air show - Axalp 2008 - in Switzerland. In the photo: an American fighter-bomber McDonnell-Douglas F / A-18 "Hornet", which is in service with the Swiss Air Force, during a flight at high speed between the Alpine peaks.
2. Training before the air show in Minsk Mazowiecki in 2012 (Poland). In the photo: MiG-29 - Soviet (Russian) fighter.
3. Bodo International Airshow 2012 (Norway). In the photo: during the display of the Scandinavian air show (Scandinavian Airshow).
4. Airshow Malbork 2012 (Poland). In the photo: the launch of the MiG-29 after a very heavy downpour. A very spectacular cloud of steam formed behind the plane.
5. Air show Airpower 2013 (Austria). In the photo: showing the Austrian aircraft Eurofighter Typhoon. The perfect moment made the photo unique - the plane seemed to fly into the sun.
6. Air Show Air Tattoo 2013 (Great Britain). In the photo: Rafale aircraft during maneuvers in an iridescent color glow.
7. Airshow MAKS 2013 (Russia). In the photo: the pride of Russian aviation T-50 PAK FA - a fifth-generation multirole fighter - during demonstrations over Moscow.
8. Airshow MAKS 2013 (Russia). In the photo: the Su-34 aircraft - a Russian tactical fighter-bomber - shows its capabilities.
9. Airshow Axalp 2013 (Switzerland).

If you want to watch the Axalp Airshow, then you first need to climb the Wildgarst mountain - about 2400 meters - at dawn, because at 9 am flying fighters start firing at shields set up on nearby peaks - this is one of the must-have elements of the Swiss Air Force show. In the photo: daredevils climbing the mountain, and right above them F / A-18 Hornet in the rays of the morning sun.

More photos of aircraft can be viewed on the author's website - hesja.pl

And an event that took place a week before it began.

The Irkut company invited me to take part in an aerial photo shoot of two aircraft preparing to perform at the air show - the Yak-130 in a new red retro livery and the Su-30SM - a modernized Sushka for the Russian Air Force. A story about how the cameraman Pavel Novikov and I filmed them from the ramp of the An-12 aircraft.

A ramp in aviation is a device designed for loading and unloading an aircraft. It is a mechanized hatch in the nose or tail of the fuselage, capable of descending to the surface of the platform:

To get access to filming from a transport aircraft, you need to pass a medical flight expert commission (VLEK) and have a life insurance policy. For a videographer, the requirements are not as strict as, for example, for a flight attendant or flight engineer. Not to mention the pilots.

I have vision limitations (that is, I can only shoot from transport workers and helicopters), and Pashka is generally handsome - he can shoot from fighters! What he has been doing successfully for several years. He started in the MiG company, flew with the Russian Knights on the Su-27, participated in the filming of various films - feature films and documentaries, even flew on the MiG-25. He studied at VGIK on the course of Vadim Yusov, now he works with the Zvezda TV channel.

Just like that, no one will allow you to stand at an open ramp. A mesh and belts were tightly stretched along its perimeter, and a beam was tightly screwed to the floor for support with legs. The operator is wearing special climbing equipment, to which an insurance screwed into the floor clings. Moreover, the amount of insurance is calculated strictly for such a distance so as not to fall outside the grid:

I throw my two cameras (second and third Marks) with lenses 24-70 / 2.8 and 70-200 / 2.8 with long straps over my neck. Practice has shown that 70-200 was most often used. A single 28-300 lens would be ideal here, but I don't have one.

Pashka in anticipation. By the way, dress warmly. At an altitude of 100-1500 meters the temperature is ten degrees lower than on the ground. For example, a leather pilot jacket made of thick leather is perfect! I also personally got a paratrooper's cap somewhere:

After gaining the necessary altitude, we are given a sign that it is time and we run to fasten ourselves to the ramp, which is still closed. The operator is wearing a headset for negotiations with the An-12 pilots, but with the noise of the engines it is almost useless.

And now, when we are fastened with cameras at the ready, the ramp is opened! Some dust is flying, I was expecting more debris and wind. After a minute or two, the first participant in the Yak-130 photo shoot appears:

Honored test pilot of the Russian Federation, Hero of the Russian Federation Roman Taskaev and test navigator 1st class Sergey Kudryashov are flying the aircraft:

On the ground, at a pre-flight briefing before filming, we discussed its conditions. Altitude, speed, distance of the "model" from the operators, maneuvering and aerobatic maneuvers to be captured. Height - 1000-1500 meters, the closest distance of approaching the object to the ramp - 25 m, at a decrease of 10-15 m.

And you don’t need to go higher, because the object will fall into the wake from the An-12 engines, and you can’t fly in this mode, and the picture will be blurred.

We didn’t have a choice of shooting time, and ideally, “air-to-air” should be carried out at dawn and sunset, and preferably somewhere in the mountains.

The route ran from Zhukovsky to Yegorievsk and back.

And this is over some lakes there (I’m looking, I’m looking on the map, I can’t find it) In general, my favorite pastime is to look at and recognize places taken from an airplane. But here the track was not registered.

For the first few minutes, the Yak-130 went smoothly, and then the movement began. For the dynamism of the picture, Pashka asked the pilots to sway and make several rolls and dodges in different directions.

The plane after the maneuver directly below us quickly leaves the frame:

"Barrel". And rrraz!

And three! The 22-minute shooting of the Yak-130 is over.

The Yak-130 has been filmed, the ramp is closing and you can take a nap while waiting for the next “model”, which at this moment will start from the Ramenskoye airfield. They reported over the link that the Su-30SM would appear in a few minutes.

At first, the Su-30SM merging with the terrain could not be seen, but when we noticed it. Averyanov Vyacheslav Yurievich - test pilot of the flight test and development base of the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The co-pilot is his son Eugene:

General view from the An-12 ramp:

The plane is so close that you can meet the eyes of the pilots. We on the ramp behind the net are not highlighted in any way and they do not see us. To heighten the effect, a brake shield is produced:

The Su-30SM multipurpose super-maneuverable fighter is a further development of the Su-30MKI family of combat aircraft:

Contracts for the supply of 60 Su-30SMs in the period up to 2016 were concluded between the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and Irkut Corporation OJSC in 2012.

The fact that the aircraft is super-maneuverable, we have seen personally 😉

Photo without cropping. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 70-200/2.8LII lens, 110mm focal length, ISO 320, shutter speed 1250, aperture 7.1:

That's it, the handsome man is gone. The shooting lasted 8 minutes and, in my opinion, was a success. And what do you think?

And no one did the backstage with me. You have to take a self-portrait:

August 12, 1912 is considered the birthday of the Russian Air Force. Anton Trofimov and other authors of the Forbes website selected 15 of the most remarkable domestic aircraft and helicopters, from the Ilya Muromets to an amazing device with a giant roof tank

100 years of Russian aviation in the photo of famous planes and helicopters

"Ilya Muromets" (1913)

The world's first passenger aircraft and the first Russian bomber.

Produced: more than 80 copies.

Aircraft "Ilya Muromets" were the basis of the bomber aviation of the Russian Empire during the First World War and became one of its symbols.

Po-2 (U-2, 1928)

One of the most massive aircraft in the world.

Produced: over 33,000 copies.

Created as a training aircraft for the mass training of Soviet pilots during the Great Patriotic War, the Po-2 performed, in particular, the functions of a light night bomber and became famous thanks to the female pilots who flew it.

I-16 (1933)

A symbol of pre-war aviation of the USSR, the world's first high-speed low-wing aircraft with retractable landing gear

Produced: 19,292

I-16 was the main fighter of the Soviet Air Force on the eve and in the first period of the Great Patriotic War. The last aircraft were taken out of service in 1952 by the Spanish Air Force, where the aircraft were supplied by the USSR during the civil war of 1938-1939.

ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" (1934)

The largest land-based aircraft of its time.

Produced: 1 copy.

Used as a propaganda aircraft, crashed on May 18, 1935 as a result of a collision with an escort aircraft.

IL-2 (1939)

The most massive combat aircraft in the history of aviation.

Produced: 36,183 copies.

Attack aircraft used on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War. It is unique in that the armor of the engine and the pilot's cabin was part of the power circuit of the aircraft's airframe. In addition to the USSR, it was in service with five more countries of the Warsaw Pact, where it was operated until 1954.

Yak-18 (1946)

Symbol of mass aviation of the USSR.

Produced: over 4800.

The Yak-18 replaced the Po-2 as a training aircraft and was the first aircraft for almost all Soviet post-war pilots and amateur pilots involved in flying clubs.

An-2 (1947)

Before the advent of the An-3, it was the world's largest single-engine biplane in the history of aviation.

Produced: 17,000 copies.

Produced in the USSR and Poland (under license, supplied to the USSR), is still produced in China (cost - about $ 75,000).

IL-18 (1957)

The first Soviet aircraft that was massively sold on the foreign market.

Produced: 675 copies.

It was operated in addition to the USSR in 17 foreign airlines, today it remains in operation in four countries of the world, not counting Russia.

MiG-21 (1959)

The most common supersonic aircraft in the world.

Produced: 11,496 copies, not counting those built under license in China.

It was in service with more than 40 states, currently it remains in the Air Force of 22 countries of the world.

Mi-8 (1961)

The most massive twin-engine helicopter in the world.

Produced: more than 12,000 copies.

Price: $14.75 million to $17.5 million

It is operated in more than 70 countries of the world, is still (in various modifications) in service with the Russian Air Force and is the most massive domestic military transport helicopter.

Tu-144 (1968)

The world's first airliner to break the sound barrier.

Produced: 16 copies.

The first flight of the Tu-144 took place two months earlier than the flight of the Concorde. Commercial operation on the only line Moscow - Alma-Ata was curtailed in 1978 due to unprofitability: the cost of a flight on the Tu-144 was one and a half times higher than the cost of a flight on subsonic airliners.

Tu-154 (1968)

The most massive Soviet jet passenger aircraft

Produced: 932 copies

Tu-154s were operated by passenger airlines throughout the socialist camp and many other countries that maintained friendly relations with the USSR. Up to the present time, 30 liners make regular flights in Russia, single copies remain in operation in other states, including as government ones (Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic).

VM-T "Atlant" (1981)

A unique aircraft designed to transport elements of the Energia-Buran rocket and space complex. Operated in the Air Force.

Produced: 3 copies.

The cylindrical load above the VM-T fuselage is the oxygen tank of the Energia launch vehicle installed backwards in a special fairing.

Ka-50 "Black Shark" (1982)

The world's first single-seat coaxial combat helicopter.

Produced: 15 copies.

Despite the small number of vehicles in service, it has become one of the symbols of modern Russian aviation - thanks to its futuristic outlines and to an even greater extent after the release of the Black Shark action movie, which gave the helicopter its unofficial name.

An-225 "Mriya" (1988)

The world's largest transport aircraft, making regular flights.

Produced: 1 copy.

Like VM-T, it was designed to transport the Energia-Buran rocket and space complex. It is currently in commercial operation.

P.S. It's nice that Ukrainian planes are included in the "Russian aviation".

And here are the planes that I studied and worked on: Il-76 and MiG-29

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