Unique
Not all aircraft on the site are open air and visible. Some of them are hidden in a hangar with the intriguing name “Unique aerial vehiclets”.
Please note – not airplanes, but vehiclets. Although right from the entrance your gaze is directed directly at the plane.
The legendary bomber of the Russian aircraft designer and the American helicopter designer I.I. Sikorsky.
It is immediately necessary to clarify that this is a model of an aircraft created for the filming of the film “Poem of Wings” (1979) about the life and work of aircraft designers Tupolev and Sikorsky. The model cannot fly, only run and taxi on the ground.
It should be noted that this is one of a small number, namely a damn dozen, models in the museum.
After Muromets, his smaller contemporary, Voisin, catches the eye. We don’t have much equipment from the period of the First World War and the Civil War in our museums.
And only then, behind them, do you notice aircraft that are not planes, but gondolas of stratospheric balloons.
Well, or, above them, an unusually shaped glider.
There is not only one glider there, there are many of them, but somehow they did not interest me.
Maybe when I get here next time, I’ll be able to look at them carefully, but now I gave all my attention to the truly unique exhibits. And, you see, the triplane is clearly one of those.
The long red wings of the ANT-25 attract attention.
Which made history with the first transpolar flight.
By the way, this is also a layout. More precisely, it is “…a technological copy of the ANT-25, manufactured at the experimental plant of the Design Bureau named after. A.N. Tupolev, based on the model of the aircraft on which the Moscow-Sant Jacinto flight was made.”
And only after that, under his wing, do you notice a tiny ANT-2 – the first and only copy.
