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    The Honorary Title "Merited Test Navigator of the USSR" (Russian: Заслуженный штурман-испытатель СССР) was a military and civilian state award of the...
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    The Honorary Title "Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR" (Russian: Заслуженный лётчик-испытатель СССР) was a state award of the Soviet Union established on...
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    Soviet of the USSR of May 22, 1940" (in Russian). Legal Library of the USSR. 1940-05-22. Retrieved 2012-02-25. "Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme...
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    Military Navigator of the Russian Federation Honoured Test Navigator of the Russian Federation Honoured Ecologist of the Russian Federation Honoured Economist...
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  • Aleksandr Fedotov (pilot) (category Victims of flight test accidents)
    1932, Stalingrad, USSR – 4 April 1984, USSR) was a Soviet test pilot who was a Hero of the Soviet Union, Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR, Lenin Prize holder...
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  • in altitude on USSR-1 Viktor Pugachyov, test pilot and pioneer of supermaneuverability, the first to show Pugachev's Cobra maneuver of Su-27 Eduard Pulpe...
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    Anatoly Kvochur (category Russian test pilots)
    2024) was a Soviet and Russian test pilot. He was awarded the awards Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (1990) and Hero of the Russian Federation (1992). Anatoly...
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  • Yuri Garnaev (category Soviet test pilots)
    unclear. Hero of the Soviet Union (21 August 1964) Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (21 August 1964) Order of Lenin (21 August 1964) Order of the Patriotic...
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  • Nina Rusakova (category Soviet test pilots)
    12 November 1997) was one of the first female test pilots and the only woman awarded the title Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR. Rusakova was born on 25...
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    Vladimir Kokkinaki (category Soviet test pilots)
    speed of 693 km/h. Kokkinaki was awarded: The title "Hero of the Soviet Union" (in 1938 and 1957) Gold Stars Nos. 77 and 179); The title "Honoured Test Pilot...
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    Valentin Lebedev (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    the Higher Air Force Navigators School in Orenburg, but he was discharged as a result of an armed forces reduction. He continued his studies at the Moscow...
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  • Rudolf Golosov (category Recipients of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 2nd class)
    the Pacific Fleet. In October 1950, he served as navigator on board a submarine, as part of a special-purpose expedition, which was the transition of...
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  • Yakov Vernikov (category Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR)
    Pilot of the USSR for his work as a test pilot; that year he flew test flights on the Tu-95 at high angles of attack, and in 1962 he tested the Tu-126....
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    Arseny Mironov (category Recipients of the USSR State Prize)
    and obtained a USSR fourth class air transport pilot license. Until 1950, he was also involved in test flights as navigator and flight test engineer on aircraft...
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    Nikolai Moskvitelev (category Recipients of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class)
    matters, and in 2007 formed the Honoured Military Pilots, Test Pilots and Navigators Club. Over his career he had received a number of awards and honours, wrote...
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    Elliott Roosevelt (general) (category Children of presidents of the United States)
    of Churchill who said "I would rather be taken out into the garden here and now and be shot myself". Following a navigator/bombardier course in the fall...
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    XVI's in the Light Night Striking Force. His navigator was Flt. Lt. Tommy Broom and the pair were nicknamed "the flying brooms," with an emblem of crossed...
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    were produced to test and refine the delta-wing design principles. The Vulcan B.1 was first delivered to the RAF in 1956; deliveries of the improved Vulcan...
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  • Emil Spiridonov (category Recipients of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class)
    Star and the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" Third Class. He was honoured after his death with the naming of a street...
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    the Americans James Warner and Captain Harry Lyon (who were the radio operator, navigator and engineer). A week after they landed, Kingsford Smith and...
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    After the funeral, a piece of cardboard with "35°56'13"North, 135°10'East" written on, was given by a Japanese officer to the junior navigator, Lieutenant...
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  • is condemned. — A Sense of Life: En Route to the U.S.S.R. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, a laureate of several of France's highest literary...
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    John Cunningham (RAF officer) (category English test pilots)
    (RAF) night fighter ace during the Second World War and a test pilot. During the war, he was nicknamed 'Cat's Eyes' by the British press to explain his...
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  • (1868)". Navigator (in Portuguese). 17 (33): 98–114. ISSN 2763-6267. Tuchman, Barbara (1966). The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914...
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    Germany. B-24s are a central feature in the 1952 novel Angle of Attack by Joseph Landon. The story concerns navigator Irwin 'Win' Hellman, whose B-24 is attacked...
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    rivalry between the USSR and China. In September 1966, in a famous speech [fr] in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, he expressed France's disapproval of the US involvement...
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    at the conclusion of the Yalta Conference, the United States and United Kingdom signed a Repatriation Agreement with the USSR. The interpretation of this...
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  • Marcus Klingberg (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
    for the Soviet Union providing information on the location of Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator believed to be held in Lebanon. With the downfall...
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  • British Panavia Tornado GR.4A of No. 13 Squadron RAF, killing the pilot and navigator. Investigations showed that the Tornado's identification friend...
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  • supplier of military systems and spare parts. The relationship with USSR was tested (and proven) during the 1971 war with Pakistan, which led to the subsequent...
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