The Gromov Flight Research Institute (GFRI) is a major centre of aviation scientific research and testing. The main areas of the GFRT/s activity are as follows: flight research of the wide range of aerospace engineering objects organisation and realization of fundamental and applied research programmes in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, strength, control systems, air navigation, avionics, powerplants, ergonomics andlife-support systems development of advanced flight test techniques certified evalution of aircraft technologies and development of techniques for assessing aircraft compliance with the airworthiness requirements development of techniques projects as well as fabrication of models ad experimental prototypes training of test pilots for airplanes, helicopters and aerospase systems commercial air transportation in any direction with great freight storage and handing capabilities in quarded rooms. The Institute is the parent organisation in the Russian Federation, at whose airfield a