people of middle and older generation sometimes with nostalgia unobtrusive advertisements Soviet times, calling to fly planes "Aeroflot".Posters with the slogan hung near the ticket offices and just in public places, there has been no commercial sense, as the competitors of the air carrier were not available.
current company "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines" is a direct descendant of this powerful organization uniting enterprises of different profile.The emblem, depicting the hammer and sickle framed by wings, with good-natured humor called "chicken" was applied to the fuselages of the most different types of equipment of non-military purposes.Agriculture, polar, research, weather, super-heavy transport, the government, in general, any aviation - all of this was the "Aeroflot".And that's not counting the main direction, ie the carriage of passengers.Of course, there were cases when the services used by airlines and defense industry, and in case of war there were plans to almost instantaneous transition to service the needs of the army.
Today "Russian Airlines" - one of the largest companies in the world, in its technical park operated by the most modern types of aircraft, both domestic and imported.However, this is only a continuation of the glorious traditions of the Soviet era.The expression "a world first" is often used in relation to the achievements of "Aeroflot".
Company "Dobrolet" created in 1923, in 1932 it was called, became a brand name, one of the most famous in the world, who inherited Russian Airlines.The winged emblem has become a symbol of reliability and high service culture, especially on international flights.
Before the war, air occupied is not very prominent in total passenger traffic, although the foundation of the future power of "Russian Airlines" was laid in 1939, when Stalin's leadership has decided to acquire the American company "Douglas" license to produce the DC-3.At the time, this type of aircraft was the most advanced in the class of passenger transport aircraft in the USSR, he produced under the symbol "Li-2."Heavenly hunky really helped during the war years, and then, after the victory, it was used for passenger transport.
Then the main passenger traffic took over medium-IL-14, and then the allied Russian Airlines took airliner An-24.For long-haul flights use since 1956 the world's first passenger jet Tu-104 and Tu-114 turboprop.
enumeration of all types of aircraft, which are used the company "Russian Airlines" would take several pages of fine print.There was everything: small, with the salon like a minivan, AN-2, AN-14 "Bee", L-410, and the huge Ana transporters and even the supersonic Tu-144.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union "Aeroflot" was the Russian airline.Having survived the difficult nineties, he again took a strong position on the market for domestic and international air travel.
From Soviet "Aeroflot", "Russian Airlines" distinguished by the presence in the domestic fleet in addition silt and Dry American "Boeing" and European "Airbus".The logo has remained the same, the truth is on the tail-space red sickle flag molotkastye took the white-blue-red tricolor.
