Wings of Russia (page 3)

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Wings of Russia DVD covers.

Documentary (2009)

This page is about DVD13 to DVD18.

About the first six DVDs, please read Wings of Russia.
DVDs 7 to 12 are on Wings of Russia (page 2).

DVD 13: Helicopters. Aerial All-Road Vehicles

Otto Lilienthal ?

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Leonardo da Vinci's Aerial Screw

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Wright Flyer III

Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

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Mil Mi-1

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Chinese Toy (contra-rotating propeller)

As said by the narator.
French naturalist Claude Launoy think the concept and François Bienvenu built it. A demonstration flight to the French Royal Academy of Sciences was operated on 28 of April 1783.

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Mikhail Lomonosov's Coaxial Rotor

In July 1754, Russian Mikhail Lomonosov developed a model of a small machine with a coaxial rotor and demonstrated it to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Unable to fly but lift up with the help of a counterweight.

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Yakovlev EG

In December 1947, the Yakovlev EG (or Izdeliye Sh) an experimental aircraft with coaxial rotors made its first flight. The program was closed in 1948 both because of some technical problems and due to the appearance of a more successful model of light helicopter, the Mil Mi-1.

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Various Unsuccessful Project

Human energy is insufficient to propel these (unidentified) machines.

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Gray Goose

Unsucccessful prototype by Jonathan Edward Caldwell.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft ( (Others) - Human Powered Flight / Ornithopter section.

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Unidentified Aircraft

A steam engine unable to provide enough energy to lift up.

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Douhéret Hélicoplane

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Pitts Sky Car

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Unidentified Aircraft

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Breguet-Richet Gyroplane

The Breguet-Richet Gyroplane was an early French experimental quadcopter rotary-wing aircraft developed by Breguet Aviation in 1907.

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Paul Cornu Helicopter

13 November 1907 : the first successful helicopter to lift off by its only power and rotor. Two 20-foot (6-meter) counter-rotating rotors driven by a 24-hp (18-kW) Antoinette engine lifted its inventor to about five feet (1.5 meters) and remained aloft one minute. Other source gives only one foot (30 cm) of freee space under the wheels.

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Igor Sikorsky Helicopter

Two designs in 1909 and 1910. Only the second one was tested and was half a success : it could lift its own weight but couldn't take off with a pilot.

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Blériot XI

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Karman-Zuroves PKZ-1

Austria, 1918.

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Etienne Oemichen N°7 Helicostat

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Mil Mi-4

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de Bothezat Helicopter

George de Bothezat was born in 1882 in Saint Petersburg. Studies done in Berlin and graduation in 1911 at La Sorbonne (France) as Doctor of Philosophy for a study of aircraft stability (Étude de la Stabilité de l`aeroplane). 1918 : He fled the Russian Revolution and lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Columbia University. Three years later, in 1921, the US Army Air Service hired de Bothezat to build a prototype helicopter. Some flights were performed in 1922.

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Berliner Experimental

1920 then 1922 : two designs by Emile and tested by his son Henry.

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Pescara helicopter

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Kamov KaSkr-I Gyrocraft (1929)

the first Soviet autogyro, designed by Kamov and Skrzhinskii.

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Cierva C.8L Autogiro

Reg. G-EBYY Cierva C.8L Autogiro (now on display at Paris Le Bourget Air and Space Museum).

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Cierva C.30

Reg. G-ACFI Cierva C.30 c/n 1

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Kamov KaSkr-II Gyrocraft

1930: Re-engined KASKR-I with a Gnome-Rhone Titan engine.

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Pitcairn PCA-2

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Kamov TsAGI A-7

The Kamov TsAGI A-7 leading (top) a Cierva C.30 and (bottom) a Kamov KaSkr-II.

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This is one is seen in the 1940 documentary Праздник сталинской авиации (Prazdnik stalinskoy aviatsii / public holiday of Stalin's aviation).

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Yuriev TsAGI 1-EA

In 1925, Boris Yuriev was put in charge of helicopter research at the (Soviet) Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) under Mikhail Leontyevich Mil supervision.

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Kamov TsAGI 11

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Unidentified Aircraft

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Nicolas Florine Tandem Helicopter

Born Nikolay Florin on 19 July 1891 in Batumi, Georgia, Russian Empire, Nicolas Florine was a Russian born engineer who settled in Belgium. He built the first tandem rotor helicopter in 1927. 25 October 1933 : the full scale development piloted the Belgian test pilot Robert Collin stays in the air for 9 minutes 58. Nicolas Florine passed away at Brussels (Belgium) on 21 January 1972.

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Breguet-Dorand Gyroplane

The first flight in 1933 ended by an accident. Rebuilt in 1935, the aircraft set lots of record until 1939 (Flight duration exceeding one hour; altitude; speed -over 100 kh/m-; ...).

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Passing in front of (left) the Bloch MB.210 prototype and (right) a Caudron Simoun

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Focke-Wulf Fw 61 V2

Registration D-EKRA.

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Focke-Wulf Fw 61 V1

Reg. D-EBVU.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing).

seen on DVD13.

SNCASE SE.3000

Talking about the Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 but this picture is about a French (postwar) SNCASE SE.3000 : the first one has a faceted nose, the French derivative a more smooth, streamlined one.

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Flettner Fl 282

GF+YF Flettner Fl 282.

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(to be conyinued)

Unidentified Aircraft

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