Wings of Victory

The film is based on the biography of Valeri Chkalov 1904 1938 a Russian pilot who set several long distance flight records Chkalov and his copilots Baidukov and Belyakov together had accomplished several nonstop longdistance flights In June of 1937 Chkalov set the world record covering 12000 kilometers in 63 hours of nonstop flight from Moscow to Vancouver Washington flying over the North Pole