Photographer Slavek Krajnevski is very fond of airplanes and everything connected with them. Thanks to his hobbies and work as a photographer, the result is unique and very beautiful pictures aircraft.
The pictures are really impressive. See 10 of the best photos of winged vehicles all over the internet.
10 PHOTOS
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1. Photo taken at the Axalp 2008 air show in Switzerland. Photo: 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). Photo: MiG-29 - Soviet (Russian) fighter. 
3. Air show Bodo International Airshow 2012 (Norway). In the photo: during the Scandinavian Airshow. 
4. Airshow Malbork 2012 (Poland). In the photo: the start of the MiG-29 after a very heavy downpour. A very spectacular cloud of steam formed behind the plane. 
5. Airpower 2013 air show (Austria). Photo: showing of the Austrian aircraft Eurofighter Typhoon. A good moment made the photo unique - the plane seemed to fly into the sun. 
6. Air Tattoo 2013 (Great Britain). In the photo: the Rafale aircraft during maneuvers in an iridescent color glow. 
7. Aviation show MAKS 2013 (Russia). In the photo: the pride of the Russian aviation T-50 PAK FA - a fifth generation multipurpose fighter - during the shows over Moscow. 
8. Aviation show MAKS 2013 (Russia). In the photo: the Su-34, a Russian tactical fighter-bomber, demonstrates its capabilities. 
9. Airshow Axalp 2013 (Switzerland).
If you want to watch the Axalp air show, then you must first climb Mount Wildgarst - about 2400 meters - at dawn, because at 9 am the flying fighters start shooting at the shields installed on the nearby peaks - this is one of the mandatory elements of the Swiss Air Force show. In the photo: daredevils climbed the mountain, and directly 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 viewers admire the air show and swim or sunbathe at the same time. In the photo: F-22 Raptor - the most expensive fighter in the world - during maneuvers. More photos aircraft can be viewed on the author's website - hesja.pl
The passenger plane 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 need an oxygen mask. And a spacesuit. Next to you are engines in which fuel is burning, and you are drinking soda from the refrigerator. A passenger plane is a collection of wonders and human achievements compressed into one streamlined body. But man in his history has created such aircraft, against the background of which your airliner is the height of banality.
1) Flying chariot
Vimana
Flight times: Unknown.
A type: Military(bomber, fighter) Representative.
Distinctive feature: most likely fictional.
It's interesting, and the ancient Indian epic "Mahabharata" and the book "Kamasutra" * are considered the property of Indian culture. But the first book is not completely believed, and the second is considered almost a textbook. Although many researchers call the second book fantastic.
Vimana, the use of which is described in the "Mahabharata" and some other sources, are called chariots, but the authors describe takeoffs, landings and battles with such ecstasy and such knowledge of details that one willy-nilly ponders. After all, a culture that considered it necessary to decorate its temples with reliefs with scenes of sex ** could have thought of this.
* 5/6 of which is devoted to how to be a good citizen and husband. Why are these chapters of the book constantly forgotten?
** The Hindus entertainers thus frightened away the shy goddess of lightning.
2) Vakhmistrov Circus
SPB
Flight times: 1937-1942 (1943)
A type: Military(flying aircraft carrier bomber).
Distinctive feature: The only successful project of a flying aircraft carrier.
We present to your attention the world's only combat flying aircraft carrier. "SPB" (Composite Dive Bomber). Unique aircraft, as usual generated by the urgent need to destroy something somewhere. The summer of the 41st, the German army is advancing on all fronts, and the Red Army Air Force urgently needs a means that combines flight range and the ability to deliver pinpoint bombing strikes. Similar projects have been developed in the USSR since 1931, and it's time for the SBP to prove itself. The "Vakhmistrov Circus", as it was often called, consisted of a TB-3 bomber (a legendary vehicle in itself) and two I-16 dive bombers suspended under its wings. Usually, such unique vehicles in battle show themselves either badly or very badly, but the SPB turned out to be so effective that the command has repeatedly received requests for urgent production of new "Carriers". But TB-3 had already been taken out of production, and it was unrealistic to start it anew in a war. Five SPB fought successfully at least until mid-42nd.
3) Muscleplane
Gossamer Albatross
Flight times: 1979
A type: experimental
Distinctive feature: Built exclusively on the principle "Are you weak?"
Muscleplane - vehicle, capable of flying only with the help of a person's muscular strength. Before the invention of normal internal combustion engines, humans attempted to take off on muscle flying hundreds of times. And they never succeeded. And Brian Allen did it, his plastic-cellophane Gossamer Albatross flew over the English Channel on June 12, 1979. During the entire flight, a professional cyclist was pedaling, turning the only propeller of the aircraft. After that, the lucky Brian received the money prize promised for such a feat.
4) "Weapon of retaliation"
Unique developments of Germany 1939-45.
Flight times: 1939-1945
A type: Military, for various purposes.
Distinctive feature: A variety of both the most advanced and frankly strange ideas.
German scientists of the Second World War are a unique, if you will, subculture. Historians who study their development, either admire their genius, or seriously discuss the varieties of hallucinogenic mushrooms that Nazi researchers could have consumed, inventing SUCH. We are interested in aviation, and in this area German scientists have made so much diarrhea that would be enough for the entire list. There are rocket planes, and FAU-1 projectile aircraft, and "flying wings" ... even "flying saucers". And this is only what managed to take off before the end of the war.
Most of this fleet Hitler considered his "Weapon of Vengeance", capable of turning the tide of the war. It didn't work out. But to build the most incredible flying machines - it turned out quite well. Take a look at the photo, even now it doesn't fly.
5) Flying tank
CT project
Flight times: 1942
A type: military(disposable transport glider)
Distinctive feature: A real flying tank.
The idea of dropping tanks on the unprepared heads of enemies, which immediately rush into battle, has excited 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, a reactive braking system provides a soft landing. But in the 40s they could not even dream of such a thing, but they could well dream of the horror that tanks, which suddenly appeared in the deep rear, are sowing in the enemy's camp. The result of dreams: "project KT" - the wings of a tank. 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 KT can fly and land on its own with a crew inside, but to transport it in the sky, a very strong "tractor" is needed. Only Pe-8 approached, of which there were about 60, and all of them were occupied by depth bombing 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").
A type: experimental.
Distinctive feature: Ultra-small aircraft.
Such devices can often be found in science fiction, but who would have thought that they were real. EXO-Wing are small wings with jet engines. No fuselage, except for a special heat-resistant suit and helmet. This is a unique device, but at least it has wings, while Bell Rocket Belt does not have those either. Few people know that rocket packs have ceased to be a fantasy back in 61, exactly 8 days after Gagarin's flight. And six months later, pilot Harold Graham, on maneuvers, took off from a military amphibian, flew over a water obstacle and landed smartly 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 looks unrealistic in the air. And our sky would have long been filled with flying people, if not for the high price of the knapsack, the flight height (about 10 meters) and, most importantly, the duration, which they could not significantly increase until now - about 30 seconds.
7) Scandinavian gray planes
Unmarked aircraft over the Scandinavian countries in the 1930s.
Flight times: 1932 - 1938
A type: Unknown.
Distinctive feature: Nobody understood what it was.
During this period, dozens of gray aircraft of various classes, including those with floats and skis, were noticed in the skies of Norway, Sweden and Finland, sometimes flying with brightly lit cockpits, sometimes with turned off engines. The intensity of the flights was so high that the military command of the Scandinavian countries had to make excuses to the press for not being able to do anything. Norway used the cruiser Eagle to search for them, the Swedish Air Force lost (due to bad weather) two aircraft, trying to find the airfields from which these intruders take off. To no avail.
With the beginning of World War II, the strange gray planes were forgotten. Neither the journalists, nor the military, nor the researchers (some of whom died trying to find the aircraft bases), could not understand what kind of aircraft they were and who they belonged to.
8) Flying Beluga
Airbus A300-600ST (Beluga)
Flight times: 1994 - present
A type: Transport.
Distinctive feature: A small plane with a huge transport bay.
Only the existence of special missions gives rise to 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 airplane or, even worse, its fuselage? The A300-600 Beluga (indeed, it resembles a beluga whale) has become a salvation for the company. The huge transport compartment contains fragments of other aircraft of the company, which are then assembled at the plant in Toulouse.
9) Plane ship
Ekranoplan KM
Flight times: 1966 – 1980
A type: Military(transport).
Distinctive feature: the only plane, according to the documents, passes as a ship.
Back in the 30s, engineers noticed a strange feature, near the ground, the aircraft suddenly significantly reduced the 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 "who love the sky and did not want to land." They really became interested in him only in the 60s in the USSR. Later, this phenomenon was called the "screen effect" - an additional lifting force arising at the surface itself (from several centimeters to several meters).
The ekranoplan KM *** was the largest flying machine of its time. Although the flight height was only a few meters. An experimental prototype, took off in the 66th near Kaspiysk. Interestingly, the flag of the Navy was raised on the plane, and a bottle of champagne was smashed on the side before the amphibian was launched. Despite the "airplane" appearance, despite the fact that pilots control it, and even despite the main mode of movement - flight, the CM was considered a ship.
*** Large letters KM on board the ship were deciphered in Western sources as "Caspian monster". But the USSR was never called military equipment so pretentious. In fact, this is the "Model Ship".
10) Space plane
SpaceShipOne
Flight times: 1994 - present.
A type: Commercial spaceship.
Distinctive 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 space flights in two weeks on the same ship. SpaceShipOne fulfilled all the conditions of the competition, climbed 112 kilometers and returned safely to Earth. It could have made it to our list simply because of its looks, but it did something more: it went down in history as the first private aircraft in space.
Interestingly, SpaceShipOne pilots are not astronauts. An astronaut is a person who has completed at least one orbit around the Earth at an altitude of more than 100 kilometers. But on the other hand, they are astronauts, since in the United States anyone who, even for a moment, reached an altitude 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 plane carrying it, lifting the space plane to an altitude of 14 kilometers.
Man has wanted to learn to soar like a bird since the times the most ancient civilization... His perseverance and pursuit of dreams gave the world the opportunity to fly in the sky with the help of huge steel machines. Airplanes are one of the finest human creations. They are beautiful, majestic, eye-catching with their mysterious appearance.
Even today, thousands of years after their creation, there is still a lot of unknown and attractive lurking in airplanes. And their flight is just a bewitching sight. Many can watch him for hours. But while standing on the ground, we will never see all its charm. But thanks to high-quality photographs, you can find out for yourself a lot of interesting little things about how delightful and luxurious an airliner striving into the distance is.
Where, no matter how in pictures with planes soaring high in the sky, can we get to know their beauty and grandeur better? After all, from the ground, we will never fully understand the secret of this wonderful human creation.
Hearing the noise of an airliner, and looking up, we notice only a small dot, leaving behind a white trail of air. And photos give us great opportunity observe in all the smallest details the ease and ease of flight of any liner. They capture such moments that a simple observer is unlikely to ever see. Every moment captured in the photo is unique and unique.
For those who are fond of airplanes, consider them to be their hobby or even possibly a passion, this page will be just to their liking. Connoisseurs will also find a lot of interesting things here. beautiful photos, because the image of ships soaring in the sky is a real art. And those who just love beauty, feel positive emotions from impressive pictures and have a thirst for learning everything new, will definitely stay on this topic.
We have presented unusual and only high quality images 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 it is much more difficult to opt for any one photo from the whole variety.
You don't know which looks more spectacular:
- photo of the liner on the border of the sky and the ocean;
- pictures of an airplane in cotton wool of snow-white clouds, crashing into them or rising higher;
- an iron bird dissecting the night starry space;
- an image of a steel car leaping into the distance during dusk or dawn, in millions of different color shades.
Each picture is beautiful in its own way, revealing from different angles the splendor 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 gray, innocent white, dark at night and bright sunny. An airplane in the sky is associated with freedom, lightness, boundlessness and victory. After all, he conquered the heavens.
Despite the large dimensions of the plane, you involuntarily compare it with a bird in the clouds, it looks in the sky also harmoniously and magnificently. The soul is overwhelmed with pride and joy that it was created by human hands.
Photos of planes in the endless skies allow us to make sure that people can do a lot, because they were able to translate their desire to fly into reality! Such pictures are great motivators and help to believe in yourself. Look at these wonderful photos and know: we can do everything, the main thing is just to want!
August 12, 1912 is considered the birthday of the Russian Air Force. Anton Trofimov and other authors of the Forbes website have selected 15 of the most remarkable Russian planes and helicopters, from Ilya Muromets to an amazing machine with a giant tank on the roof
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: over 80 copies.
The Ilya Muromets aircraft were the backbone 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 Po-2 performed, in particular, the functions of a light night bomber and became famous thanks to the female pilots who flew on it.
I-16 (1933)
The symbol of the pre-war aviation of the USSR, the world's first high-speed low-wing aircraft with retractable landing gear
Produced: 19,292 copies
The I-16 was the main fighter of the Soviet Air Force on the eve and in the first period of the Great Patriotic War. Latest planes were removed from service in 1952 by the Spanish Air Force, where the machines were delivered by the USSR during the civil war of 1938-1939.
ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" (1934)
The largest aircraft of its time with a land landing gear.
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 armoring of the engine and the pilot's cabin was part of the power circuit of the airframe. In addition to the USSR, it was in service with five more countries of the Warsaw bloc, where it was operated until 1954.
Yak-18 (1946)
The 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 who were engaged in flying clubs.
An-2 (1947)
Before the appearance of the An-3, it was the world's largest single-engine biplane in the entire 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 to be massively sold on the foreign market.
Produced: 675 copies.
In addition to the USSR, it was operated in 17 foreign airlines, today it remains in operation in four countries of the world, not counting Russia.
MiG-21 (1959)
The most widely used supersonic aircraft in the world.
Produced: 11,496 copies, not counting those built under license in the PRC.
It was in service with more than 40 countries, 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: over 12,000 copies.
Price: from $ 14.75 million to $ 17.5 million
Operated in more than 70 countries around the world, it 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 of the entire socialist camp and many other countries that maintained friendly relations with the USSR. Up to the present time, 30 airliners 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 as part of 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 even more 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 with 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 in " Russian aviation»Ukrainian planes are included.
And here are the planes that I studied and on which I worked: Il-76 and MiG-29
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