Wings 27.02.2003 (2003)

"The Limitless Mode" or the Gromov Flight Research Institute.

In the late 1930s, when the Khodynka Field near Moscow became too crowded for aircraft, construction began on a new airfield and a settlement named after the founder of Russian aerodynamics, Zhukovsky.

Three months before the war, an order was issued to organize a Flight Research Institute on its basis, the first director of which was the legendary pilot Mikhail Gromov.

More than 60 years have passed since then.

Everything that has flown and flies in the Russian sky, took off on the runway of the Gromov Flight Research Institute, from the Pe-2 bomber to the Buran orbital spacecraft.

Today, this unique scientific, technical and flight test complex remains the heart of the Russian aviation industry.

Although attempts to sell it at auction have been and continue to this day, the institute lives its own difficult life.

The remarkable scientists of the Gromov Flight Research Institute are working on the problem of overcoming hypersonic space, and test pilots are “testing” the 5th generation of aircraft in the air.

Its field is used for MAKS, one of the three most grandiose air and space shows in the world.

Only here are aircraft tested for strength, stability, and controllability, and the people who pilot them trained.

Only on this base can the future of the domestic aviation industry be modeled.

The presenter puts on a set of pilot’s clothes and a flight suit.

The presenter in the cockpit of the MIG-25 aircraft.

Background information: The MIG-25 aircraft.

The MIG-25 aircraft accelerates and takes off.

View from the cockpit of the runway.

View from the cockpit during climb.

Instruments on the aircraft control panel.

Snow-covered airfield.

The TU-134 aircraft on the runway.

The Yak-42 aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Background information: Gromov Flight Research Institute.

The presenter in the cockpit talks about the Gromov Flight Research Institute.

The Gromov Flight Research Institute building in Zhukovsky.

A TU-144 airplane next to the institute building.

A helicopter in the sky.

A TU-334 airplane at the airfield.

A passenger airplane taking off.

Chronicle: The gates of the aircraft hangar open, a mechanic inspects the aircraft engine, mechanics prepare the biplane for flight, a pilot at the controls of the aircraft, a view of aircraft at the airfield, the general plan for the construction of TsAGI, workers with buckets of earth, a bulldozer levels the ground, a sign saying "

Zhukovsky, welcome", a view of the urban development of Zhukovsky, a biplane in the air, pilot Mikhail Gromov climbs out of the cockpit of the aircraft, Mikhail Gromov near the aircraft engine, soldiers push the aircraft along the runway, the biplane performs aerobatics, the pilot gets into the cockpit, the propeller of the La-5 aircraft rotates, the La-5 aircraft in the air, the aircraft's cannon fires at a ground target, a radio operator with headphones on, a link of aircraft in the air, a twin-engine aircraft at a snow-covered airfield, winter start-up of aircraft engines, technicians rotate the propeller of the Pe-2 aircraft, the Pe-2 bomber aircraft in the air.

View from the cockpit of the clouds and the horizon.

Instruments on the aircraft control panel.

The presenter in the aircraft cockpit.

The pilot and presenter discuss the aircraft maneuvers.

Background information: Flight to the stratosphere, speed - M 1.0, altitude 11,000 km.

Tu-16 heavy bombers, in-flight refueling of the Yak-30, Tu-16 and Yak-30 aircraft, condensation trail behind two aircraft, view of the runway from the pilot's cockpit, Su-27 aircraft in flight, Buran spacecraft, Buran landing.

Background information: History of the Gromov Flight Research Institute.

Vladislav Tsyplakov talks about the new hypersonic aircraft.

Chronicle: Meeting of the designers of the Buran spacecraft, diagram of the Buran spacecraft, Buran on the pad, the Buran spacecraft taxiing, test pilots in the Buran spacecraft cockpit, the Buran spacecraft taking off, the Energia launch vehicle taking off with the Buran spacecraft on board, the Buran spacecraft landing, the SU-27 plane taking off from the aircraft carrier, dispatchers at their monitors, an institute employee installing the tape in the computer, pilots in overalls walking along the airfield.

Background information: Yuri Sheffer, test cosmonaut.

Yuri Sheffer speaks about the Buran spacecraft.

The presenter in the aircraft cockpit.

Instruments on the aircraft control panel.

Background information: the voice of test pilot Alexander Pavlov.

View of the sun from the pilot's cockpit.

View of the earth from the pilot's cockpit.

Background information: Flight to the stratosphere, altitude 24650 meters.

MIG-29 aircraft taxiing and taking off.

Pilot in the MIG-29 cockpit.

A link of MIG-29 aircraft in flight.

Aircraft flybys at an air show.

Walking through the bullfighting ring.

Meeting of the council of veteran test pilots.

Mikhail Gromov talks about pilots.

Photos of pilots - Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Alexander Krutov talks about the upcoming flight on the SU-27 aircraft.

The presenter talks about the upcoming flight on the SU-27 aircraft and testing the new avionics.

The instrument panel of the SU-27 aircraft.

Color display of the SU-27 aircraft.

View of the runway during aircraft acceleration.

The presenter switches the toggle switch on the aircraft instrument panel.

The presenter comments on the aircraft instruments.

View of the clouds from the pylon cockpit.

Color display of the SU-27 aircraft.

The pilot holds the aircraft control column.

The instrument panel of the Su-27 aircraft.

The pilot in the cockpit of the simulator.

Vladimir Biryukin speaks about civil aviation aircraft.

Pilots in the cockpit of a passenger aircraft simulator.

Vladimir Biryukin speaks about the safety problems of passenger aircraft.

Yuri Mitikov and Aleksandr Shcherbakov speak about test pilots.

Chronicle: The building of the M.M. Gromov Flight Research Institute, a pilot sits in the cockpit of an aircraft, a MiG-25 aircraft takes off, an aircraft lands, a landing gear wheel on the runway, a Yak-30 aircraft takes off, a Yak-30 aircraft flies by, observers look through an optical device, an aerial bomb is loaded into the hatch of a bomber, aircraft models, listeners in the auditorium, aircraft of different types, a MiG-21 aircraft, a hand holds the control stick, engineers at their workplaces, the tracking locator is rotating, the Yak-30 aircraft, pilots and engineers communicate, a tester sits in a seat on a stand, testing of ejection seats.

TU-144 aircraft near the institute building.

TU-334 aircraft at the airfield.

Background information: TU-334 aircraft.

TU-334 aircraft taxiing.

Vyacheslav Bakayev talks about the work of the Gromov Flight Research Institute.

Leonid Lobas talks about the work of the Gromov Flight Research Institute.

View of the runway during aircraft acceleration.

The presenter in the cockpit talks about the flight into the stratosphere.

The presenter talks about the work of the Gromov Flight Research Institute.