After the end of war all aircraft industry aimed at the soonest possible establishment of jet propulsion aviation. To achieve this purpose, the problems concerning overcoming the sonic barrier, as well as the problems of supersonic aerodynamics, flight dynamics, structural efficiency, life support, etc., had to be solved. Bearing this in mind, the Institute's experts developed and realized the method of aerodynamic research with winged models dropped from aircraft. The researches into supersonic and hypersonic speed were carried on using unmanned rocket-launched models.

“ The Institute's experts developed and realized the method of aerodynamic research with winged models dropped from aircraft. ”

The scientists, engineers, and test pilots of the Institute made an invaluable contribution into the creation of the first home-produced jet fighters. In the early 50s, many previously unknown peculiarities of supersonic dynamics were studied on MiG-15, MiG-17, and MiG-19 planes. High speeds had required new engine units, and the Institute flight-tested E-50 and SM-50 planes equipped with combined propulsion systems, which consisted of turbojet and liquid-fuel rocket engines.Flight research and debugging of such combined power units and experimental turbojet engines was carried out aboard flying laboratories based on production planes Tu-2, Pe-8, Tu-16, Tu-95, etc .More>>

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