“The pilot lives only in flight”. The secrets of chef-pilot of Ilyushin design Bureau

Nikolay Kuimov © JSC “Il” Test pilots of the Soviet Union and Russia, known all over the world. Experimental design Bureau, which created an unrivalled aircraft, has always invited the best specialists. A Day of Air and space forces of the Russian Federation chief-pilot of Ilyushin design Bureau, Hero of Russia Nikolay Kuimov told TASS about the most exciting and dangerous missions, secrets of flying skills and thoughts that come to mind when the aircraft is in a steep dive. Student The future pilot was born in 1957 in Podolsk, near Moscow in the family of ordinary workers who had no relation to aviation. But it so happened that he never had much of a choice, — all led to a certain path. One of the reasons for his attachment to the sky Nicholas D. calls books about aviation, which in those years published a great many: the book of

Shoigu said that Russian military equipment in Syria confirmed its excellence

The Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu © Alexei Druzhinin/press-service of the Russian President/TASS/ MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/. The Minister of defence of the Russian Federation General of the army Sergei Shoigu called sophisticated military technology, which is used by Russia in the Syrian campaign. He declared it on Saturday on air of TV channel “Russia 24”. “I can’t say about our defense industry, which worked very closely with us and continues to work, they modify the technique to address the deficiencies. I want to say that during this time [the Syrian military campaign Russia] much eliminated, and I can say that our technology of today can confidently wear the name perfect, perfect technique corresponding to today’s time doing the fight,” he said.

The Ministry of defence published archival documents relating to the history of domestic aviation

© Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, August 12. /TASS/. The Ministry of defence of Russia has published on its website on the Day of the air force declassified archival materials about some pages of history of this kind of troops. About it reported in Department of information and mass communications of the military. “In the Day of aviation of the defense Ministry of Russia published a series of archival documents on the history of military aviation in Russia and the exploits of military pilots in the great Patriotic war”, – noted in the defense Ministry.