Beautiful pictures of planes in the sky. Beautiful photos of soaring planes in the endless sky
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:
Who has never seen the military transport An-12, I show. The ramp is highlighted in red, which opens for landing or, as in our case, for photographing after a flying aircraft:
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 multirole supermaneuverable fighter is further development families of combat aircraft of the Su-30MKI type:
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:
It is already cold in Volgograd in November, so I wanted to return closer to summer. On the Internet, he began to look for work on requests: seasonal work in the south in winter. I found an article about the collection of tangerines in Abkhazia. The work promised not to be wages, but tasty. You can eat tangerines for the year ahead, stock up on vitamins. Found in contact
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To learn to soar like a bird, man has wanted since the ancient civilization. His perseverance and desire for a dream gave the world the opportunity to fly in the sky with the help of huge steel machines. Airplanes are one of the best human creations. They are beautiful, majestic, eye-catching with their mysterious appearance.
Even today, thousands of years after their creation, there are still many unknown and attractive things hidden in airplanes. And their flight is simply a mesmerizing sight. Many can watch him for hours. But standing on the ground, we will never see all its charms. But thanks to high-quality photographs, you can find out for yourself a lot of interesting little things about how amazing and luxurious an airliner striving into the distance is.
Where, no matter how in the pictures with planes soaring high in the sky, we can get to know their beauty and grandeur better? After all, from the earth we will never fully understand the mystery of this wonderful human creation.
Hearing the noise of an airliner, and raising our head up, we notice only a small dot, leaving behind a white trail of air. And the photographs give us an excellent opportunity to observe in all the smallest details the ease and ease of the flight of any liner. They capture such moments that are unlikely to ever be seen by a simple observer. Every moment captured in the photo is unique and unrepeatable.
For those who are fond of airplanes, consider them their hobby or perhaps even a passion, this page will be just to their liking. Connoisseurs of beautiful photos will also find a lot of interesting things here, because the image of liners soaring in the sky is a real art. And those who simply love the beautiful, experience positive emotions from impressive pictures and are thirsty to learn everything new, will definitely linger in this topic.
We have presented unusual, and only high-quality pictures of aircraft. They very clearly and realistically convey all the subtleties of the flight of this huge machine. Downloading and setting them as a theme or wallpaper is an easy and feasible task even for children. But to stop your choice on any one photo from the whole variety is much more difficult.
Don't know which looks better?
- photo of the liner not the border of the sky and the ocean;
- pictures of an airplane in a wadding of snow-white clouds, crashing into them or rising higher;
- an iron bird that cuts through the night starry space;
- an image of a steel car rushing into the distance during sunset or dawn, with millions of different color shades.
Each picture is beautiful in its own way, revealing from different sides the magnificence of an airplane flying against the background of day or night, sunny or cloudy, azure or overcast sky. All the colors of the rainbow are reflected in the photographs - azure, crimson, hazy grays, innocent whites, dark nights and bright sunny ones. An airplane in the sky is associated with freedom, lightness, infinity and victory. After all, he conquered the heavens.
Despite the large dimensions of the aircraft, you involuntarily compare it with a bird in the clouds, it also looks harmonious and magnificent in the sky. The soul is overwhelmed with pride and joy that it was created by human hands.
Photos of airplanes in the endless skies make it possible to make sure that people can do a lot, because they were able to make their desire to fly a reality! Pictures like this are very motivating and help you to believe in yourself. Look at these wonderful photos and know: we can do everything, the main thing is to want!
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?".
Muscleman - vehicle capable of flying 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 not for high price backpack, flight height (about 10 meters) and most importantly, the duration, which has not been significantly increased 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 1930s, engineers noticed 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 was never called military equipment so pretentious. 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. He could be on our list simply because appearance, but did something more: he went down in history as the first private 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, we got unique and very beautiful pictures aircraft.
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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). Pictured: Pride 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.
10. Jones Beach Airshow 2012 (USA). A unique show: nearly a million spectators admiring the aerial displays and swimming or sunbathing at the same time. In the photo: F-22 Raptor - the most expensive fighter in the world - during maneuvers. More photos of aircraft can be viewed on the author's website - hesja.pl