About the book: 2017 / The life and work of Mark Gallay cannot be imagined separately from the sky. In his youth, after graduating from flight school and the Polytechnic Institute in his native Leningrad, he became an engineer and test pilot at TsAGI-LII. He took part in the Great Patriotic War and during the first raid on Moscow he shot down a fascist plane. Honored test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Mark Gallay mastered 125 types of aircraft; was an instructor in spacecraft piloting techniques for the first (Gagarin) six cosmonauts. The proposed book is a detailed story about the life path of an outstanding test pilot, written by him. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.