Viktor Pugachyov

Viktor Pugachyov

Viktor Georgiyevich Pugachyov ( _ru. Виктор Георгиевич Пугачёв) (born August 8, 1948 in Taganrog) is a Russian test pilot who invented the Pugachev's Cobra maneuver of Su-27. He was named Hero of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. He graduated from Yeysk military aviation school in 1970. Test-pilot school and MAI (Moscow State Aviation Institute). After two years with LII (Flight Research Institute named after M.M.Gromov) joined OKB Sukhoi where he tested the Su-9, Su-15, Su-24, Su-25 and the Su-27. He became famous after his 1989 Su-27 demonstrations on the Paris Airshow. Pugachev is credited with first ever non-vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) from the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov". Currently he lives in Zhukovsky and works as the Chief Pilot Designer at Sukhoi Design Bureau.

Record flights

While working as a test pilot at Sukhoi he broke 13 world records in the Sukhoi P-42:

External links

* [http://flymig.com/pilots/viktor.georgievich.pugachev.htm Pugachyov's biography]


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