Viktor Pugachyov
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Viktor Georgiyevich Pugachyov (Russian: Ви́ктор Гео́ргиевич Пугачёв) (born August 8, 1948 in Taganrog) is the inventor of 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. He established seven time to altitude records with the P-42.
Currently he lives in Zhukovsky and works as the Chief Pilot Designer at Sukhoi Design Bureau.
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