For the first time the fighter’s wheels touched the deck Print
Monday, 23 July 2012 09:18

Fighter’s wheels touched the deck for the first time.
Momentous event for the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya took place last week. Fighter’s wheels touched the deck for the first time.


MiG-29KUB, piloted by the hero of the Russian Federation, honored test pilot of the RF, Colonel, Nikolay Diorditsa (his colleague, Mikhail Belyaev, the hero of the RF, was present in the office) made a few approaches over the ship at different heights and touched the deck for the first time. “Running” several tens of meters the aircraft took the air.
After that the test pilot of the Russian Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation MiG successfully placed the fighter in a pattern trajectory and touched the deck two times more for another ten minutes.
Nikolay Diorditsa and Mikhail Belyaev are deemed among the leading test pilots who are supposed to carry out the first landing of the aircraft on board Vikramaditya.
 
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