Soviet Wings - Modern Soviet Military Aircraft

Greenhill Books 1991
Photographs depict Soviet military aircraft ranging from fighters and bombers to transport planes and helicopters. Since the world's first successful four-engined aircraft was flown by its designer Igor Sikorsky at St Petersburg in 1913, Soviet engineers have produced a succession of remarkable designs. These have seldom been appreciated to the full in the West owing to a lack of adequate illustration. Glasnost however, has changed all that. There is a new generation of young aerial photographers in the Soviet Union, highly skilled in their profession, and now unhampered by heavy restrictions on their work. Alexander Dzhus is one of them - outstanding for his achievements in aviation photography - and Soviet Wings reproduces the best of his exciting work...