Viktor Pugachyov

Viktor Georgijewitsch Pugachev (Russian: Виктор Георгиевич Пугачёв ) ( born August 8, 1948 in Taganrog ) is a Russian pilot and the inventor of the Cobra maneuver. He pointed to the Air Show in Le Bourget with a Su -27 in 1989 for the first time this maneuver in public.

In 1970, he joined the military flying school into Jeisk. He then attended the Test Pilot School and the State Aviation Institute in Moscow. After two years at the Mikhail Gromov - College for flight research, he went to the Sukhoi OKB Sukhoi Su and tested there the -9, Sukhoi Su -15, Sukhoi Su -24, Sukhoi Su -25 and Sukhoi Su- 27th Pugachev took the first non- VTOL take-offs and landings from the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.

Pugachev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. He lives in Zhukovsky and works in a managerial capacity at the aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi.

Flight records

With a Sukhoi P -42, the pre-production model T-10 -15 Sukhoi Su -27, introduced Viktor Pugachev following FAI world records:

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  • Pilot
  • Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Carrier of Merit for the Fatherland
  • Russian
  • Born in 1948
  • Man
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