Ho appreso soltanto oggi della sua morte ..... avvenuta poco più di un mese fa .....
Con lui scompare uno dei più importanti piloti collaudatori di velivoli ad alte prestazioni del secolo scorso .....
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Dal minuto 0:45 una brevissima, quanto rara, sequenza che mostra lo Ye-66A in volo, il 9 Luglio 1961, nel cielo di Tushino col motore razzo acceso .....
Qui ..... invece .....
.31 October 1959: At Joukovski-Petrovskoe, U.S.S.R., Гео́ргий Константи́нович Мосоло́в (Georgy Konstantinovich Mosolov), chief test pilot for Mikoyan-Gurevich, flew a prototype of the MiG-21 interceptor identified as the E-66, to set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Speed Over a 15/25 Kilometer Straight Course.
His speed averaged 2,388 kilometers per hour (1,483.8 miles per hour). (FAI Record File # 9062)
The МиГ-21 prototype identified by the symbol E-66 is known at the Mikoyan Design Bureau as the E-6\3.
Its first flight took place in December 1958.
It is powered by a Tumansky 11F-300 afterburning turbojet engine. (A Wikipedia article suggests that this airplane was rebuilt to different configurations several times, with designations changed accordingly.)
Mosolov’s FAI altitude record of 28 April 1961 was also flown in a MiG-21 prototype called E-66. (FAI Record File # 8661) Photographs and motion picture film of that airplane show it marked with red numerals “31” on the forward fuselage.
