Aeronautics Collection (#77)

Sergei Vernov, Soviet physicist
Sergei Nikolaevich Vernov (1910-1982), Soviet physicist. Vernov pioneered cosmic rays experiments in the stratosphere using radio balloons carrying specially designed equipment

Sergey Ilyushin, Soviet aircraft designer
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894-1977), Soviet aircraft designer. From 1926, Ilyushin founded an aircraft design company named after him

Nikolai Zhukovsky, Russian engineer
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky (1847-1921), Russian engineer. Also known as Joukowsky, he pioneered the study of air and fluid flow, which was crucial to a proper understanding of powered flight

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), German inventor of the airship. Von Zeppelin conceived the idea of confining the hot air balloon, first developed in 1783

Vladimir Petlyakov, aircraft designer
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov (1891-1942), Soviet aircraft designer. Petlyakov studied under Nikolai Zhukovsky, the founder of modern aerodynamics and hydrodynamics

Ivan Kleimenov, Soviet scientist
Ivan Kleimenov (1898-1938), Soviet rocket scientist and aerodynamics engineer. Kleimenov led RNII, the Soviet jet-propulsion research laboratory

Igor Sikorsky, aircraft designer
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889-1972), at left, Russian-US aircraft designer, inside an aeroplane cockpit. Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Russia, and educated at St Petersburg and Kiev

Mikhail Yangel, Soviet rocket scientist
Mikhail Yangel (1911-1971), Soviet scientist. Yangel was one of the most important designers of liquid-fuelled rockets in the Soviet Union

Genrikh Novozhilov, aircraft designer
Genrikh Novozhilov (born 1925), Soviet aircraft designer. Novozhilov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was the deputy designer at the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau

Vladimir Lapygin, Soviet rocket engineer
Vladimir Lavrentyevich Lapygin (born 1925), Soviet rocket engineer, talking at a meeting. Lapygin was one of the principal designers of the automatic control units for Soviet missiles and spacecraft

Vicenzo Lunardi, Italian aeronaut
Vicenzo Lunardi (1759-1806), Italian aeronaut, historical artwork. Lunardi became the first person to fly in Britain when he took off in a hot air balloon from Londons Royal Artillery Ground at

Semen Lavochkin, Soviet scientist
Semen Lavochkin (1900-1960), Russian aviation and missile designer. The head of the Soviet OKB-301 bureau, Lavochkin helped build thousands of fighters during the Second World War

Nikolay Kamov, Soviet helicopter designer
Nikolay Ilyich Kamov (1902-1973), Soviet helicopter designer. Kamov built his first autogyro in 1929, a breakthrough that led to his later helicopter designs

Boris Gubanov, Soviet rocket engineer
Boris Ivanovich Gubanov (1930-1999), Soviet rocket engineer. Gubanov worked at the Yangel design bureau, and was First Deputy Chief Designer and General Designer from 1972 to 1982

Mikhail Gromov, Soviet transpolar pilot
Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov (1899-1985), Soviet pilot, wearing aviation clothing for the July 1937 transpolar flight across the North Pole. Gromov was one of three pilots on this pioneering flight

Boris Chertok, Russian rocket engineer
Boris Chertok (born 1912), Russian rocket engineer, talking at a meeting. Chertok, in his 90s here, is one of the veterans of the Soviet space programme

Boris Bunkin, Russian space engineer
Boris Vasilyevich Bunkin (born 1922), Russian space engineer. Bunkin was the general designer of the Almaz Central Design Bureau

Anatoly Blagonravov, Soviet engineer
Anatoly A. Blagonravov (right, 1895-1975), Soviet engineer, showing a colleague a spacecraft model. Blagonravov is making a report at a congress of the American Rocket Society, in the USA, in 1959

Louis Bleriot, French engineer
Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French engineer, aviation pioneer and the first person to make a powered flight across the English Channel

Georgy Babakin, Soviet scientist
Georgy Babakin (1914-1971), Soviet scientist and designer who worked on the guidance system for early missiles. Later, he helped design equipment for space exploration

Arkhangelsky, Tupolev, Soviet engineers
Alexander Alexandrovich Arkhangelsky (left, 1892-1978), and Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (1888-1972), Soviet aviation engineers, talking at an airfield

Korolev and Sheremetyev, Soviet engineers
Sergey Pavlovich Korolev (left, 1907-1966), and Boris Sheremetyev, Soviet rocket engineers. Korolev, who had worked on rockets in the 1930s

Soviet engineers and physicists, 1954
Soviet engineers and physicists. From left to right: Vasily Mishin (1917-2001), rocket engineer; Mstislav Keldysh (1911-1978), mathematician; Igor Kurchatov (1903-1960)

Ilyushin and Kokkinaki, aviation pioneers
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (left, 1894-1977), Soviet aviation engineer, and Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki (right, 1904-1985), Soviet test pilot

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Volt future aircraft, artwork
Volt future aircraft. Computer artwork of the Volt twin-engine Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) concept aircraft

First Soviet rocket-powered aircraft
Structure of RP-318, the first Soviet jet glider designed by Sergey Korolyov

Aircraft designed by Sergei Korolev
An aircraft model designed by Academician Sergei Korolyov (1907-1966), Chief Constructor of the first battle and space rockets, artificial Earth satellites, manned space ships

Aircraft in flight, artwork
Aircraft in flight. Computer artwork of an aeroplane flying from over the sea and across land, with arrows indicating its change in altitude as it encounters differing air pockets caused by

MiG-29 fighter jet in flight during a rehearsal of the Victory Parade Air Show dedicated to the 65th Victory Day. Photographed at Chkalov airport, Russia, on 16th April 2010

Tu-22M3 in flight
A Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber and missile carrier taking part in the dress rehearsal of the Victory Parade in Red Square in Moscow

Airbus 330 passing in front of the moon in a clear sky. The hot exhaust gases from the jet engines can be seen distorting the appearance of the moons sphere

Boeing 737 taking off at sunset. The orange plumes behind the aircrafts wings are caused by sunlight refracted by the hot exhaust gases from the jet engines

Naval observation balloon, 19th century artwork. The balloon (upper right) is tethered to the ship below, and is being used to survey the movement of enemy ships and forces

Worlds highest beacon light, 1920s. This is the Wyoming Beacon, 2620 metres above sea level. Located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA, this beacon guided aeroplanes flying between Chicago and San Francisco

A-50 early-warning radar aeroplane, coming in to land at an air base. The radar rotordome (oval, upper centre) is the structure seen between the wings and the aircraft tail

German WWII ramjet bomber in flight. This is a Dornier Do 217 heavy bomber with a ramjet propulsor mounted on top of its fuselage

German WWII ramjet bomber in flight. This is a Dornier Do 217 heavy bomber with a ramjet propulsor mounted on top of its fuselage

Natter manned rocket, World War II
Natter manned rocket. This is a German Bachem Ba 349 (Natter) rocket aircraft, captured by the US Army towards the end of World War II

SpaceShipOne, artwork
SpaceShipOne. Computer artwork of the privately-funded SpaceShipOne craft orbiting the Earth with its mothership, White Knight, below. SpaceShipOne was designed by the US company Scaled Composites

USS Shenandoah airship and tender
USS Shenandoah airship moored to its tender the newly-converted USS Patoka during tests in 1924. The Shenandoah was the first rigid airship used by the US Navy

Hot air balloon in a storm, artwork
Hot air balloon in a storm. Artwork of a hot air balloon being hit by lightning over Chicago, USA. Illustration from " Le Petit Journal", France (1891)

June Bug aeroplane, 1908. Also called Aerodrome number 3, the June Bug was a single-seat, single-engine biplane that was the third aircraft successfully designed

DH-4 aeroplane radio. This view of the aeroplane cockpit shows the installation of a radio set on a DH-4 (De Havilland 4) model

Boeing 747 taking off at sunset. The orange plumes behind the aircrafts wings are caused by sunlight refracted by the hot exhaust gases from the jet engines

SpaceShipOne re-entry, artwork
SpaceShipOne re-entry. Computer artwork of the privately-funded SpaceShipOne craft in the pivoted wing configuration that allows it to re-enter the Earths atmosphere from orbit

Boeing 737 ascending at sunset, artwork
Boeing 737 ascending at sunset. Artwork of a Boeing 737 silhouetted against the evening sky as it takes off towards the setting Sun

Passenger aeroplane model. Aviation engineer walking past a monitor displaying a three-dimensional image of the Sukhoi SuperJet-100 passenger plane

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