The collection includes the stories "Red Planes" about the life and work of aircraft designer R.L. Bartini, "The Goddess of Good Luck, Commander Grokhovsky" about one of the founders of the Airborne Forces in our country and his ally - the creator of recoilless guns L.V. Kurchevsky, as well as an essay about the designer Moskalev - the creator of the world's first, still pre-war, and undeserved forgotten for many years aircraft with a triangular wing of small elongation "Arrow." All materials are provided with illustrations. In addition to the book, a fragment is attached about our 1938 stealth aircraft, which was published in the newspaper even before the book was published, but for some reason was not included in the final version.