Night photo of the monument of the MiG-31 Bashny.Net

Enterprises Perm Motors presented a gift to employees, residents and guests of the city of Perm to its 80th anniversary - a memorial «MiG on the rise».

Memorial "MiG takeoff" is set in a park on the street Chkalov in central avenue historic busts Permian designers and plant directors. He is a true supersonic fighter-interceptor MiG-31, located in special arches, pillars.

MiG-31 - a real fighting machine, which has a history. He was released in 1985 and operated until 1998 in the Tyumen region on the airfield Komsomolsk, was later transferred to the city of Perm in the military part of the "Falcon". The total flying time of the aircraft is 1322 hours; for all his "flight" of his life he made a landing in 1452. In 2013, the MiG was demilitarized and transferred by order of the Ministry of Defence in the Perm region. According to Valery Menitsky, test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, "no such aircraft in the United States, nor our European opponents. This complex incorporated a huge potential. " In the MiG-31 set 29 world records, many of which are not beaten to this day (in particular, in 1977 the test pilot Alexander Fedotov installed on the MiG-31, the absolute world record altitude - 37,650 meters). D-30F6 engines for the MiG-31, the very high-speed and high-altitude combat aircraft in the world, have been developed in the Permian ICD (currently JSC "Aircraft Engine") and serially produced in PPO "Motorostroitel" (now the "Perm Engine Company").





"Thanks to the memorial" MiG takeoff "Perm younger generation will know and be proud of the achievements of Perm engine builders," - said the chief federal inspector in the Perm region, Oleg Veselkov.

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