晚秋,莫斯科郊外试飞研究院机场。天刚刚亮,跑道上还留着白霜。天气意外地晴好,能见度“无限远”,就像专门为创纪录而准备的。在跑道的起点上已停好一架闪光的淡黄色飞机。它带着两台发动机,融合的翼身翘着两个大垂尾,内装着雷达天线的机头略向下倾斜。这架外形特异的飞机与以前在这里试飞的全然不同。座舱内试飞员维克多·布加乔夫正在作起飞准备。他今天的使命是要刷新美国保持的爬升率纪录。 Late autumn, test flight outside the Moscow Institute of Aerodromes. Just dawn, the runway still with hoarfrost. The weather was unexpectedly sunny and visibility was “infinity,” as if it had been prepared exclusively for record keeping. A flashing light yellow aircraft has been parked at the start of the runway. With two engines, the wing of the fuselage is tilted with two large vertical ends, and the nose of the radar antenna is slightly tilted downwards. This unique shape of the aircraft test flight here before completely different. Cockpit test pilot Viktor Boogeoff is preparing to take off. His mission today is to refresh the rate-climbing record maintained by the United States.