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The legendary life of Fedoroff, a hero of the former Soviet Union
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Heroes are invincible and love in the sky.
Ivan Fedoroff's flight is full of legends, and some stories are even unbelievable. He was once the most outstanding pilot in the Soviet Union. He shot down enemy planes 134, collided with enemy planes six times in the air, and tested 297 kinds of domestic and foreign aircraft, including the earliest jet fighters.
Can fly and fight.
Fedoroff entered the Military Pilot School on 1932 and graduated with honors. He was sent to Spain on 1937. In one year, he completed 286 combat flights, personally shot down enemy planes 1 1 and cooperated with his comrades to shoot down enemy planes 17.
1938, Fedoroff was awarded the title of Soviet hero. He came to Moscow with a large number of officers from Spain to attend the grand ceremony of awarding the general. However, these flying people can't wait to drink the celebration wine in advance. At the reception, the pilots, sailors and tank soldiers gathered together argued about which service was better. As a result, they punched each other, even the soldiers wanted to see them, causing two deaths and several injuries. The National Defense Personnel Committee suppressed the incident, but the reward was also written off, and everyone returned to their units with unfavorable comments. It never occurred to me that Fedoroff had a glimmer of hope to be transferred to Lavochkin Design Bureau of Aviation Industry People's Committee as a test pilot.
At the end of 1940 and the beginning of 194 1, according to the agreement signed by the Soviet Union and Germany, 62 German pilots came to the Soviet Union to learn the driving of ν- 16 for more than three months. In the first few flights, four Germans died. 1941June 14, Fedoroff, Stefanovski, Suprun and Victorov were sent to Germany for a return visit to exchange experiences. After they arrived in Berlin, it took them only four days to complete the test flight of various aircraft provided by Germany. In recognition of his outstanding performance, Hitler awarded Fedoroff a Knight Cross at the farewell party on June 6th, 2008.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Fedoroff asked to go to the front, but Lavochkin opposed it. June 1942, sneaking into the front without authorization. He told reporters about this experience: "At that time, the Lavochkin Design Bureau was located in Gorky City. I didn't fly to Moninho with my test plane. I used a pistol, but there was no bullet in it. I forced a mechanic to cheer me up, and then I flew to the 3rd Air Force under the leadership of gromov in Kalinin. The leader of the design bureau announced that I was a deserter and asked to be sent back from the front. Gromov said:' If you run away from the front, you can be sentenced to desertion, but you ran to the front.' The matter went away, but the wife who stayed in Gorky was deprived of the allowance. I asked gromov for a two-seater fighter and flew to see her. She is also a pilot, fighting with us. "
Gromov first appointed Fedoroff as his deputy, in charge of flight training, because he knew that Fedoroff had superb air flight and combat skills.
1in August, 942, according to Stalin's instructions, a special discipline flying team was established. The players were all guilty, but it was a pity to be shot. Fedoroff volunteered to lead the flying team composed of 64 punished people.
On August 5th, 1942, a German flying team consisting of 59 ace pilots was transferred to the area where Fedoroff troops were located, so as to attack the victorious section of the Soviet Union from the air. The fuselage of the German plane was painted with the color of playing cards, which was dubbed as a "card fan" by Soviet soldiers. Headed by the commander von Berg, the plane's horizontal stabilizer is painted with a Hydreigon ... Fedoroff's flying team was ordered to stop this * * * behavior of the Germans. With the help of the guards of the Fifth Fighter, it took them only two days to wipe out all these ace pilots. Fedoroff shot down "Three Dragons" and "A of Hearts". After the battle, his comrades-in-arms gave him a saber, a sword, a mauser gun and a pipe signed by Hitler. These are all von Berg's personal belongings. In less than two months, they were punished or shot down more than 350 enemy planes, four of whom were awarded the title of Soviet hero and others were awarded medals or medals. Soon, the disciplinary team was dissolved, and the pilot was rehabilitated and returned to his original unit. Fedoroff was appointed commander of the air force.
Feodor's husband, a teacher, fights by himself and often wins under incredible circumstances. On one occasion, far from the front, he and his colleague Captain Zavili provided cover for 24 Soviet attack planes. Suddenly, 20 fascist fighters attacked. Fedoroff shot down nine enemy planes and the wingman shot down two. The rest of the enemy planes scattered and fled ...
In addition, no one in aviation history has ever caused so many air crashes as Fedoroff-six times!
Become a survivor of a disaster
After the victory of the war, Fedoroff returned to Lavochkin Design Bureau to test the jet. He was the first to fly the 176 plane to overcome the sound barrier. He is the creator of 29 world records. Therefore,1March 5, 948, Stalin awarded him the title of Soviet hero.
Fedoroff usually flies 8- 10 planes at the same time, which are different. He spends more time in the air than on the ground. Sometimes it takes 20 hours to fly around the clock.
What happened later completely changed Fedoroff's fate. At that time, he was flying a La-15 swept plane. That experience made him unforgettable: "In high-speed flight, the plane trembled and the control failed. I let go of the oil The nose began to sink, the fuselage was skewed, and the descending speed was faster and faster. I have no choice but to abandon the plane and escape. But the plane doesn't have an ejection device. I pushed open the canopy, kicked my foot hard at the bottom of the cockpit, turned my face back (to tear my mouth), and people arrived at the joint between the wing and the fuselage. I was crushed by the airflow on the wing. I mustered up my strength again, propped up my elbows and knees and broke free from the plane. A backward force threw me to the tail and almost hit the horizontal stabilizer. The plane disappeared from my sight. I opened the parachute at high speed. Only then did I find that my work clothes, together with the medal of socialist labor hero, had disappeared. Later, I learned that when I got off the plane, the skin on my elbows and knees also stayed on the fuselage. It is very cold at an altitude of about 5000 meters, and my abdomen, hands, feet and face are frozen.
"Later, in the place where the plane was destroyed, my friends found some pieces of my medals and work clothes. Even the medals failed to withstand the collision and the accessories were broken. Due to the overload, my ears and nose began to bleed, and my blood pressure dropped to 60-50 (mmHg). The doctor made great efforts to cure my illness, but the result was in vain. It wasn't long before I left flying. "
As the saying goes, it never rains but it pours At this time, Fedoroff's wife Anna died of illness. Anna was seriously injured in the war. She stayed in the hospital for 30 years and finally failed to stand up.
Fedoroff later found a job in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Because of his excellent work, he was quickly promoted to the position of Director of Foreign Affairs Department. Today, at the age of 86, he is still full of energy. He is very happy in real life. He always smiles. Maybe this is the secret of his health. He has been married for the second time. His two hobbies now are: writing poems, repairing clocks with abnormal structures, and "sentencing to death". The bells in his house are as crisp and pleasant as those in the church.