Pilots heroes. Pilots. Military pilots.

Pilots, like an aircraft, are divided into military and civilian, their occupation corresponds to this distinction. A pilot is one of the heroic professions, no matter what means of transportation he uses to accomplish deeds and feats - a helicopter or an airplane, the fact remains.

Perhaps, in our time, the images of heroes for boys and young people have changed, but it will never be superfluous to go back in time and look at the faces of real heroes. Read the article, learn about the exploits accomplished by them, and at the same time get acquainted with the era in which the heroes lived, devoting their lives to people living at that time, and even today.  

Scrolling through the pages of this chapter, you can get acquainted with many hero pilots who defended their homeland from enemies, received awards for this repeatedly, in the form of orders and medals. By the way, samples of orders and medals can also be found in this section, they are shown at the end of the biography of the pilots.

Of course, the most active period in the birth of heroes is the war period and there is nothing you can do about it, but sometimes there are pilots assigned to awards in peacetime, for example, for saving passengers.

It is thanks to such headings that we do not forget our history, we honor the people who have made a contribution to its positive outcome. So section (Pilots heroes, pilots, military pilots) Is presented below.

A country / years	FULL NAME.	Short description
1916 - 1968	Grigory Ges	Soviet pilot ace, Hero of the Soviet Union.
1916 - 1991	Alexander Karasev Nikitivich	Soviet military leader, fighter pilot, participant and veteran of the Great Patriotic War.
1920 - 1991	Ivan Kozhedub	Lieutenant General of Aviation. Ivan Kozhedub three times hero of the Soviet Union. First class military pilot.
1921 - 1993	Dokashenko Nicholas G.	Soviet flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union. Member of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet-Japanese and Korean wars.
1922 - 1968	Vladimir S. Seregin	170 successful sorties, dogfighting 19, 3 downed aircraft, destroyed a lot of ground equipment and manpower of the enemy.
1923 - 1985	Vladimir Alpheus	Red Star (twice), Red Banner (three times); He awarded the medal "For Service in Battle"
1923 - 1998	Bokach Boris	Soviet military pilot, ace. 6 victories.
1923 - 2000	Fighters Arkady S.	July 14 1953 was for heroism and courage in the fighting, Major Boytsov named a Hero of the country
1924 - 1945	Nicholas Radchenko	Nicholas constantly takes on a flight four-legged friend.
1924 - 1998	Boris S. Abakumov	He is the author of the biographical book "The Unknown War".
1922 - 1995	Bahai Stepan Antonovich	Military pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.
1923 - n.	Sergei Kramarenko Makarovich	The pilot, Hero of the country, Major General Aviation.
1924 - 1981	Galyshevsky Ivan	Participant in the Korean conflict, castle regiment.
1937 - 1973	Gennady Eliseev	Castle Squadron 982-34-th Regiment th Fighter Transcaucasian military district, Captain. Hero of the Soviet Union.
1923 - 1951	Shatalov Herman T.	He fought in Korea, was an ace. Shot down a large number of fighters.
1923 - 2009	Leo K. Shchukin	Commander, senior lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union.
1919 - 1998	Morels Alexander Pavlovich	He graduated from the Kachinsky Aviation School. He worked as an instructor pilot. Participated in the Patriotic War. Was engaged in aerial reconnaissance.
1921 - 1996	Subbotin Serafim Pavlovich	He was the commander of a machine gun platoon. He graduated from the aviation school. Soon became the captain.
1923 - 1986	Nikolai Sutyagin	Record holder in air combat on jet technology. For a month shot down 5 American aircraft.
20-1953	Fedoretc Semyon	After flying club became a student of the Odessa school of pilots. He scored a debut victory, knocking F-86.
1954-80	Valentin Kulyapin	He studied at the Military Aviation School. The second Soviet pilot. Received the title of Hero of the Country.
1920-00	Stepan Naumenko	He studied at the Leningrad Aviation Technical School. He graduated from the Birsk military school of pilots. For his merits and achievements he received the title of Hero of the Country.
1918-90	Pepeliaev Eugene G.	He graduated from a technical college course of Omsk. He entered the Odessa aviation school. The hero of the country.
1922-10	Dmitry Samoilov	He studied at the flying club. He graduated from the Kachin Aviation School. Participated in 60 air battles. He received many awards and medals, as well as the title of Hero of the Country.
1935 - 2013	Mohammed Mahmoud Allam	Brigadier General. He received awards for battle during the Indo-Pakistani War 1965 year and the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
50-80-e	Khalid Mahmood	Highest Pakistani pilot, shot down four enemy aircraft f-16.
20-e-1956	Alauddin Ahmed	Made 20 sorties to storm troops in India. Destroyed several dozen enemy military equipment.
20-e-1965	Munir-ud-Din Ahmed	Made 8 successful sorties. Shot down the plane of the Indians.
1951 - 1971	Rashid Minhas	During the flights, he performed many effective actions. For heroism Rashid was awarded the Medal of Honor by the President of Pakistan
50-80-e	Vinod Kumar NEB	One of the young pilots during the Indo-Pakistan war. During the fighting, to fly on the "Hunter".
1935 - 1967	Prakash Rao Sadashiv Pingali	Indian pilot. He was shot down by a fighter with his partner.
1919 - n.	Arjan Singh	Awarded the Order of Padma Vibhushan, received the title of Marshal of Aviation.
1930 - 1966	James Dzhebara ( "jab")	Well-trained pilot, part of the Korean War. He won the first victory in a jet fighter.
1925 - 1954	Joe McConnell	The navigator of the bomber during the war with the Nazis. Soon became an outstanding ace in the Korean conflict.
1930 - 1965	Robinson Risner ( "Robbie")	Shot down several fighters in China. Ac. The last ammunition shot down the enemy vessel. He participated in the battles in Vietnam.
1922 - 2007	Robin Olds	Brigadier General, Head of the US Air Force Academy.
1942-n.	Richard Ritchie ( "Steve")	During the fighting, several MiGs shot down. After leaving office he was engaged in political activities in 1974 year.
50-00-e	Randall Cunningham ( "Duke")	Military ace. Shot down planes opponents. After the war he became an instructor, was engaged in military planning.
30-e-1979	Wayne Peak	He served in the US Air Force units located in Israel. Got the nickname "rescuer pilots."
1921-n.	John Glenn	American hero. After being selected as an astronaut, he traveled to space.
30-00-e	Lou Lenart	Pilot. Shot down several enemy planes. After the flight activity, he organized his own airline company. He became a coach, made a film.
1925 - 1994	Harold Fisher ( "Hal")	He graduated from flight school. Commits flights to Korea from the airbase, which was on the distribution. He was captured by Chinese soldiers.
1922 - 1952	George Andrew Davis	During the first flights shot down seven Japanese fighters, was awarded the Silver Star. He received the rank of major. He was shot down in battle at the age of 30.
1946 - n.	Moshe Miller	Squadron lock, shot down several Syrian MiGs. In 1976, the year was removed from the flight.
1928 - 2002	Benjamin Peled	One of the best Israeli pilots. He was appointed commander of the air base. After the end of his flying career, Beni became the director of one of the large enterprises.
40-e-00-e	Nguyen Van Bai	One of the most famous North Vietnamese aces. During the period of flight activity 7 was won victories over the Americans.
1940 - 1970	Nguyen Van Coc	Vietnamese ace, during the war shot down seven planes.
1947-n.	Pham Tuan	He served as a technician in aviation. He graduated from the Air Force Academy.
20-e-90-e	Danny Wilson	He flew in the 411 squadron, won many victories over opponents. After the cessation of flight activity, he returned to Canada and worked as a pilot in forest conservation.
20-e-90-e	John McElroy	Shot down German Bf-109. After the war, he joined the Air Force reserve. He served as an instructor in the 421-th Air Division.
20-e-1948	Eddie Cohen	Participated in the first departure of the Israeli Air Force. He flew a small transport. During one of the flights, Eddie made a mistake at the airfield and landed on the one that was captured by opponents.
20-e-80-e	Sid Cohen	Sid, leaving medical education, joined the South African Air Force. He flew in the 4-th squadron.
50-e-90-e	Danilo Atiensa	In 1989, he became the hero of the Philippines, received an officer rank.
40-th-1974	Antonio Bautista	The commander of the 9 Squadron, made 5 heroic attacks on the target. Awarded a star for bravery.
70-e-00-e	Salah el Ayhid	Shot down F-15 fighters owned by Iraq. Attacked coalition troops.
1928-90	Alvaro Prendes Quintana	Entered the infantry school, having finished it, went to study at the flight school. Passed retraining in jet aircraft. He received a lieutenant rank.
30-e-1961	Luis Alfonso Silva Tablada	He graduated from the school of pilots. During the war with the Germans performed patrol flights. After the victory, he headed the squadron B-26.

Heroes pilots

Profession - pilot - is not only romantic stories, chanting it in songs, and hard work, the daily risk and greater responsibility. Still, every second boy dreams of becoming a pilot and raise the sky a plane. And how not to dream when the sight of the great examples of people in this profession. Many of them, also once dreamed of becoming pilots, and certainly the heroes of the country, to receive awards, medals, that's just the price of these awards is too high.

Each of them has the right to be named and recognizable, but there is not enough runet space to give them all their due. But in the person of several contemporaries it is possible to remember each hero from the time of the first ascended into heaven.  

At the end of the last century Vladimir Sharpatov - pilot and crew commander of the Il-76 aircraft, has an award from the president for the courage and heroism shown by him during his escape from Afghanistan, where he and his team were prisoners for a whole year.

Vladimir Sharpatov received the “Hero of the Russian Federation” and “Gold Star”, and his co-pilot, Gazinur Khairullin, also became the Hero of the Russian Federation. His team - Navigator Zdora Alexander, radio operator Vshivtsev, leading engineers Sergei Butuzov, Viktor Ryazanov, flight engineer Askhat Abbyazov were awarded the Order of Courage for services to the fatherland.

Another legendary name of the pilot Hero of Russia - Apakidze Timur - Honored Military Pilot of Russia, the first among the pilots of naval aviation to receive his Hero of Russia award. Died 12 years ago at the 85th anniversary of the naval aviation, during ceremonial performances. He was awarded the “Golden Star” of the Hero of the Russian Federation, the Order of the Third Degree for Service “For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” and “For Personal Courage”, the Medal “For Military Merit”, streets are named after him.

It would seem that the phrase pilots - heroes is forever associated with war and in peacetime there is simply no place for it, but even today there are pilots who have received the title of honorary "Hero of Russia. These are the pilots who are in a difficult situation, thanks to impossible efforts, forgetting about themselves, they acted in the interests of people's lives.

Every year there are more and more such heroes. On the one hand - this is, of course, fortunately - for those people who were on the plane at that time, and on the other - due to technical malfunctions of air machines, heroism becomes somehow forced.

For example, in the Komi Republic, the Tu-154 winged aircraft was obliged to make an emergency landing, and thanks to the pilots and the valiant team, none of the people were injured, although there were more than seventy passengers on board. Pilots Andrew Lamanova and Evgeny Novoselov, awarded the title of Hero of Russia, and the team members received the Order of Courage. This situation was caused by problems with the onboard batteries, the plane had to make its way from the "Polyarny" airport to the Moscow "Domodedovo" airport, but did not have time. 

Unfortunately, the reward is not all pilots alive and in good health.

23 2012 year June last year during the test work MiG-29KUB not returned home pilots - heroes Alexander and Oleg Kruzhalin Match. Recent tests they conducted in the Astrakhan region, for which he received the title of Hero of Russia posthumously. His last flight they planted near the village, while not causing physical damage to a living soul. Eternal memory to them.

And how many survivors of the pilots did not receive awards, which, thanks to their courage and skill to land the plane in an emergency. Or are pilots who fought, but could not, unfortunately, to help themselves or passengers. Not enough pages to enumerate all and remember all the situations that are flying reel of film for years - ... .1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 ... cities and surnames. The commander-captain Andrew Churbanov and pilot-operator of senior lieutenant Oleh Tumakov died .... Not far from the Itum-Kale, killing the Hero of Russia Colonel Yuri Nikolaevich Yakimenko and the captain Oleg Podsitkov... The Su-17M3 plane crashed during testing, two pilots who tested it ... Pilot Dmitry Khrebtov died on training flights ...

There will be no end to the surnames of the test pilots, at the cost of their lives they test the reliability of steel birds, so that someone else, already on a more advanced model, could not only fly, but also live. Unfortunately, after 2013 there will be ellipsis again ...

Personality in the world of aviation

1908 - 1984	Lyulka Arkhip Mikhailovich	Leading scientist, designer of aircraft engines
1911 - 1971	Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel	An outstanding scientist and organizer of scientific research
1907 - 1966	Korolev Sergei Pavlovich	Designer spacecraft
1895 - 1945	Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen	The German military leader Field Marshal Aviation
1893 - 1946	Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring	The political, state and military leader of Nazi Germany, Reich Reich Ministry of Aviation
1892 - 1972	Field Marshal Erhard Milch	German military leader, Field Marshal General. Luftwaffe Inspector General.
1892 - 1945	Robert Ritter von Greim	German pilot of the two world wars, the Chief of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Aviation

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