Gromov Flight Research Institute | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/06/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromov_Flight_Research_Institute


00:01:11 1 History
00:01:19 1.1 Foundation
00:02:28 1.2 Cold War
00:03:37 1.3 Perestroika times
00:04:58 2 Current research and development activities
00:06:32 3 Testbed aeroplanes
00:06:42 4 Notable employees
00:06:51 4.1 Heads of the institute
00:08:31 4.2 Scientists, test pilots, navigators, and engineers
00:09:13 5 See also



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The Gromov Flight Research Institute or GFRI for short (Russian: Лётно-исследовательский институт имени М. М. Громова, Russian: ЛИИ) is an important Russian State Research Centre which operates aircraft test base located in Zhukovsky, 40 km south-east of Moscow. The airfield is also known as Ramenskoye air base.
It has world's second longest public-use runway, at 5,402 m (17,723 ft) with concrete surfacing covers the area of 2.5 million square meters. 
The airfield was used as the backup landing site for the Shuttle Buran test program and also as a test base for a Buran's aerodynamic prototype BTS-002.
GFRI periodically hosts the MAKS event, the International Air Show (Aviasalon).
At present, GFRI is also hosted Zhukovsky International Airport.