The lords of the sky. Gravity challenge (2016)

Documentary №100703, 1 part, duration: 0:44:26
Production: Studio Roscosmos
Director:Aleksej Kitajcev
Screenwriters:Aleksej Samoletov, Aleksej Kitajcev
Camera operators:Konstantin Kolodyazhnij, Vyacheslav Krasakov, Artem Lebedj, Roman Fedyukin, Viktor Ermakov
Anouncers:Vladimir Yumatov

Annotation:

Any trials are a risk. Any work of a tester is a kind of contract with death. The film tells about the history of the creation and testing of parachutes and ejection systems, thanks to which pilots, athletes, paratroopers and cosmonauts remain alive.

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Climbing into the plane, every tester knows: his parachute is faulty.

There is an error in the satchel with the main dome tightly tightened.

A test parachutist is the same person who checks a notoriously faulty parachute system in the air.

For the tester, an unopened dome, jammed parachute triggers, tangled slings are everyday life.

For an ordinary pilot, athlete or paratrooper, the failure of the parachute system is death.

The meaning of the work of a test parachutist is to search for failures so that later this or that system can save the lives of those who will use it in the future.

The film starred test parachutists Igor Tarelkin, Vladimir Nesterov, Peter Zadirov, Sergey Chekalin, Vladimir Severin, test cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Sergey Tresvyatsky, the installer of the Rosparashute slings Maria Grekova, Deputy chief designer of NPP Zvezda Nikolai Dergunov.

Personnel:

I.E. Tarelkin - pilot, test parachutist, head of the department of the Main Flight Test Center (GLIC) named after V.P. Chkalov, Hero of the Russian Federation. Tarelkin E.I. -- pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Nesterov V.P. - 1st class parachutist-test pilot, head of the testing service of the Parachute Engineering Research Institute. Zadirov P.I. - test parachutist, entrepreneur, philanthropist. Tresvyatsky S.N. -- Honored Test Pilot of the Russian Federation, Test Cosmonaut, General Director of JSC Samara Scientific and Technical Complex named after N.D. Kuznetsov (2004-2007). Severin V.G. - test engineer, test cosmonaut of NPP Zvezda, Honored Tester of Space Technology of the Russian Federation, Hero of the Russian Federation. N.I. Dergunov -- mechanical engineer, design engineer, specialist in the field of creating spacesuits and life support systems, Deputy Chief Designer of NPP Zvezda. Matsievich L.M. - Russian aviator, officer of the Corps of Naval Engineers of the Russian Empire, submariner.

Calendar: 1910s 1970s 1997 1980s 2012

Locations: Astrakhan region [769] Novgorod region [791] Vladimir region [772] Moscow region [788] St. Petersburg [814] Kazakhstan [114] USA [851] Afghanistan [250]

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