Simviation Forum - Wings of Russia series is on youtube!

Apr 2^nd, 2012 at 10:27pm

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While browsing for the "secret russian aircraft of ww2" history channel show on youtube I stumbled across the Wings of Russia series. For those that remember the Discovery Channel: Wings Channel, you may think this series is the same as Wings of the Red Star..this is not the case. The Wings of Russia series IS a Russian documentary series, as such the translator makes some rather amusing goofs. That said, it is really interesting and a great eye-opener for us Westerners.

The Cold War vets here might find it interesting as well.

Just go to youtube and search: "Wings of Russia 1 of 18" for the 1st episode, replace the 1 with a 2 for the second and so on. The first couple cover fighter development, then bombers, attackers, and then civilian. I am personally on episode 9.
These are ~50min episodes but very well done with lots of wonderful archive footage and some really interesting tid-bits.
link for episode 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUd7WcaLO0

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Reply #1 - Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 7:56am

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Will have a look later...should be quite interesting...

Thanks for the information....

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Reply #2 - Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 11:50am

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wahubna wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2012 at 10:27pm:

While browsing for the "secret russian aircraft of ww2" history channel show on youtube I stumbled across the Wings of Russia series. For those that remember the Discovery Channel: Wings Channel, you may think this series is the same as Wings of the Red Star..this is not the case. The Wings of Russia series IS a Russian documentary series, as such the translator makes some rather amusing goofs. That said, it is really interesting and a great eye-opener for us Westerners.

The Cold War vets here might find it interesting as well.

Just go to youtube and search: "Wings of Russia 1 of 18" for the 1st episode, replace the 1 with a 2 for the second and so on. The first couple cover fighter development, then bombers, attackers, and then civilian. I am personally on episode 9.
These are ~50min episodes but very well done with lots of wonderful archive footage and some really interesting tid-bits.
link for episode 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUd7WcaLO0

Nice catch. I did without cable to save a few bucks. Netflix for the most part has almost everything I need and is slowly catching up to all the historical stuff I'm used to watching. Why pay 180+ for cable boxes when I can pay about 45 for high speed internet and 7 for netflix. Money saved is more beer earned Grin

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I do miss my Wings channel though. When I did have cable I had it set to my default channel when I turned my TV on Grin

Mike

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Reply #3 - Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 4:25pm

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Mike, when I was a kid, my dad was going through flight training so we were dead broke. In order to watch Wings, my grandpa tapped it all the time. So we had the old fashion DVR Grin

We still have a stock pile of VHS tapes of random Wings shows, most of which I have found on youtube.
Wings of the Luftwaffe anyone??

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Reply #4 - Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 6:16pm

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You guys would probably be frightened how much old Discovery stuff I've got on VHS and am slowly digitising Grin

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Reply #5 - Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 8:28pm

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wahubna wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 4:25pm:

Mike, when I was a kid, my dad was going through flight training so we were dead broke. In order to watch Wings, my grandpa tapped it all the time. So we had the old fashion DVR Grin

We still have a stock pile of VHS tapes of random Wings shows, most of which I have found on youtube.
Wings of the Luftwaffe anyone??

As do I...Oh and I also have a working Sony BETAMAX HiFi. Some of the videos I have rival VHS quality movies releases. And I still have an RCA working 8 Track Shocked

Mike....Bring on the Lava Lamps and Bean bag chairs Cool

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Reply #6 - Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 11:47pm

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Mike.. wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 8:28pm:

wahubna wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2012 at 4:25pm:

Mike, when I was a kid, my dad was going through flight training so we were dead broke. In order to watch Wings, my grandpa tapped it all the time. So we had the old fashion DVR Grin

We still have a stock pile of VHS tapes of random Wings shows, most of which I have found on youtube.
Wings of the Luftwaffe anyone??

As do I...Oh and I also have a working Sony BETAMAX HiFi. Some of the videos I have rival VHS quality movies releases. And I still have an RCA working 8 Track Shocked

Mike....Bring on the Lava Lamps and Bean bag chairs Cool

Sad thing is I am just 21! Grin

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