Viktor Pugachyov

Viktor Georgiyevich Pugachyov (Russian: Ви́ктор Гео́ргиевич 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.

[edit] Record flights

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

Source: Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Date	Class (and group)	Description	Record	Status
1986-11-15	C-1 (3)	Time to climb to 3,000 m	25,37 s	Record
1986-11-15	C-1h (3)	Time to climb to 3,000 m	25,37 s	Record
1986-11-15	C-1 (3)	Time to climb to 6,000 m	37,05 s	Record
1986-11-15	C-1h (3)	Time to climb to 6,000 m	37,05 s	Record
1986-11-15	C-1 (3)	Time to climb to 9,000 m	47,03 s	Improved to 44,18 s by same aircraft
1986-11-15	C-1h (3)	Time to climb to 9,000 m	47,03 s	Improved to 44,18 s by same aircraft
1986-11-15	C-1 (3)	Time to climb to 12,000 m	58,10 s	Improved to 55,54 s by same aircraft
1986-11-15	C-1h (3)	Time to climb to 12,000 m	58,10 s	Improved to 55,54 s by same aircraft
1990-03-29	C-1h (3)	Time to climb to 15,000 m with 1,000 kg payload	1 m 21,71 s	Record
1993-05-20	C-1i (3)	Time to climb to 15,000 m	2 m 6 s	Record
1993-05-20	C-1i (3)	Time to climb to 15,000 m with 1,000 kg payload	2 m 6 s	Record
1993-05-20	C-1i (3)	Maximum payload to 15,000 m	1,015 kg	Record
1993-05-20	C-1i (3)	Maximum altitude with 1,000 kg payload	22,250 m	Record