History of Ukrainian Aircraft Manufacturing

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1996.

The TV film "Wings of Ukraine" is dedicated to the history of aviation and the traditions of aircraft manufacturing in Ukraine.

On the video: interview with Yevgenia Koroleva, who talks about the first Ukrainian aviators of the late 19th - early 20th centuries; chronicle, archival photographs; the first biplanes and airplanes; Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after O. K. Antonov, An-225, various plans; chronicle with aircraft designer, chief designer of the aircraft plant of the joint-stock company of air services "Ukrpovitroslyakh", former head of the aviation warehouse of the Air Fleet of the Ukrainian People's Republic Konstantin Kalinin; the first Ukrainian passenger aircraft; chronicle of aviation tests; test pilot Oleksandr Galunenko tests the An-70, cockpit.

Comments: Ukrainian writer and aviation historian, niece of aviator Mikhail Yefimov Yevgenia Koroleva; test pilot of the O. K. Antonov Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex Oleksandr Galunenko; leading designer of the O. K. Antonov ANTC Viktor Anisenko; deputy chief designer of the O. K. Antonov ANTC Anatoly Vovnyanko.

Reference: Ukraine is one of a limited number of states that have a full cycle of aviation design and production of aircraft - from scientific and design developments to serial production and flight tests. The key center of Ukrainian aircraft design is the Antonov State Enterprise, which has formed its own engineering school and created a number of unique transport and multi-purpose aircraft of the An series, in particular the An-70, An-124 and An-225, which have no direct world analogues.