Taitz started work as a flight test engineer in the flight test section of the TsAGI under the supervision of Alexander Chesalov and Vsevolod Vedrov.[4] His first job was flight testing of the TB-5 heavy bomber with Mikhail Gromov as a lead test pilot.[4][6]
After the arrest of his elder brother David Taitz in the Great Purge in 1938, Taitz left TsAGI and worked as engineer-editor for the State Scientific Library of the NKTP, editing the aviation department of the News of Technical Literature journal. In 1939, he got a chance to obtain the position of Dean of Theoretical Mechanics Department at the Soviet Union Industrial Academy but in 1940, a delegation from TsAGI visited him and requested his return to the institute to head a group of researchers.[4]
Together with Alexander Chesalov and Vsevolod Vedrov, and with the support of Mikhail Gromov and Ivan Petrov, Taitz arranged the establishment of the Institute of Flight Research (8 March 1941).[7] In the new institute Taitz held the Chief of Laboratory No. 2 position and also acted as the institute Deputy Chief for science.[2][8] During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Taitz headed the evacuation of the science core of the institute to Novosibirsk, and supervised flight and ground testing of the serial production fighter aeroplanes to eliminate defects in the flight qualities and war-fighting capabilities of the aircraft.[2] At the same time he took the lead in developing the second volume of the Aircraft Designers Handbook (RDK) devoted to flight test techniques and published by TsAGI in 1944.[4][2] The same year Taitz was assigned to head a Soviet technical group for the evaluation of the Peenemünde test site where the German V-1 and V-2 missiles were tested.[2]
From 1945 to 1947, together with Alexander Chesalov, Taitz initiated the development of testbed aeroplanes based on the Tu-2 bomber for flight testing of the jet engines. Concurrently he developed the theory of similarity for aviation turbojet engine testing.[7][9] Taitz organised and supervised the flight research and testing of the first Soviet jet fighters MiG-9, MiG-15, MiG-19 and Su-9, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1949.[4][2]
At the end of 1940s during a second wave of antisemitism, Taitz and many others were fired from the institute. Later, in conjunction with new research projects in unmanned aircraft and missiles, and the establishment in 1952 of a new dedicated division, he was asked to return to the institute.[2] After his return, he played a major role in the development and flight tests of Soviet cruise missiles the KS-1 and others, and their automatic control systems.[4][7] In 1956, chief of the institute Nikolai Stroev, insisted Taitz be assigned his deputy, although a number of high-level officials of the aviation industry were against that due to Taitz's Jewish ethnicity, his reluctance to be a Communist Party member and his repressed or emigrated relatives.[4]
In the late 1960s, Taitz initiated the development of the USSR civil aircraft certification system and was a strong supporter of joining the USSR to the Chicago convention and ICAO.[10]Gromov Flight Research Institute became a leading research organisation in the USSR in flight testing and certification of aircraft and Taitz was a driving force behind that. Other notable scientists in these activities were Nikolai Stroev, Victor Utkin, and Arseny Mironov.[9] For a number of years in the 1960s, Taitz was head of the Soviet-French working group on avionics and flight tests. He was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1966 for achievements in automation of aeroplane controls.[2]
Taitz was born to Izhok-Aaron (Isaac-Arkady) Z. Taitz (Russian: Ицхок-Аарон (Исаак-Аркадий) Захарович Тайц) (1868–1935), a travelling salesman who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Russian Empire,[5][4] and Sara (Sophia) M. Vilenchuk (Russian: Сара Мовшевна (Софья Моисеевна) Виленчук) (1874–1951), who was born in a suburb of Kaunas.[5][4]
Taitz is buried at the Bykovskoye Memorial CemeteryinZhukovsky. There is a bronze memorial plate with his bas-relief image installed on the Gromov Flight Research Institute headquarters building where he once worked.[14]
Most of Taitz's notable publications are in Russian.
Ведров, В. С.; Горский, В. П.; Тайц, М. А. (1935).『Сравнение результатов исследований 5 самолетов в полете и их моделей в аэродинамических трубах』[Comparison of results of 5 aeroplanes in-flight research and their models testing in the wind tunnels]. Труды ЦАГИ (in Russian) (214). ЦАГИ.
Справочник авиаконструктора [Aircraft designer reference book] (in Russian). Москва: ЦАГИ. 1937. p. 512.
Калачев, Г. С.; Остославский, И. В.; Тайц, М. А. (1945).『Некоторые вопросы компоновки скоростных самолетов』[Certain problems of high-speed aeroplanes configuration]. Труды ЛИИ (in Russian). ЛИИ.
Ведров, В. С.; Тайц, М. А. (1951). Летные испытания самолетов [Aeroplanes flight testing] (in Russian). Москва: Оборонгиз. p. 484.
Ведров, В. С.; Смирнов, В. П.; Тайц, М. А. (1956).『Исследования продольных автоколебаний самолета с необратимым гидроусилителем в системе управления』[Research of longitudinal auto-oscillations of an aeroplane with an irreversible hydraulic booster in flight control system]. Труды ЛИИ (in Russian) (65). ЛИИ.
Тайц, М. А. (1983). Теоретические основы методов определения в полете летных характеристик самолетов : Применение теории подобия [Theoretical foundations of methods for in-flight evaluation of aeroplanes flight characteristics : The theory of similarity application]. Справочная библиотека авиационного инженера-испытателя『Летные испытания самолетов и вертолетов』(in Russian). Москва: Машиностроение. p. 128. (published posthumously).
^Остапенко, Юрий, ed. (2005). XX век. Авиастроение России в лицах [Twentieth Century. Faces of Russian Aviation Industry] (in Russian). Москва: МОО «Общество авиастроителей». p. 552.
^"Вековой юбилей легенды летных исследований" [Centennial jubilee of the legend of flight research] (in Russian). Ассоциация государственных научных центров РФ. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
^Миронов, А. Д.; Берестов, Л. М.; Золотухин, Р. Б.; Леонова, М. Ф.; Амирьянц, В. А., eds. (2001). Лётно-исследовательский институт. События. Люди [Flight Research Institute. Events. People] (in Russian). Москва: Машиностроение : Машиностроение-Полет. p. 536.
^ abПономарёв, Ю. Л.; Луняков, В. С.; Тайц-Хмелевская, И. М. (18 June 1997).『Вспоминая М. А. Тайца』[Remembering M.A. Taitz]. Жуковские Вести (in Russian). No. 25. Жуковский: Редакция газеты "Жуковские вести". p. 4.
Шевченко, В. А.; Лапин, Ю. А. (1995). Свищёв, Георгий (ed.). Знакомьтесь : город Жуковский [Meet : Zhukovsky City] (in Russian). Москва: АО "Книга графикс". pp. 91–104. ISBN9785887010021.
Остапенко, Юрий, ed. (2005). XX век. Авиастроение России в лицах [Twentieth Century. Faces of Russian Aviation Industry] (in Russian). Москва: МОО «Общество авиастроителей». p. 552.