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The last day of the air show on Sunday turned out to be successful, but the weather is beyond human control. The aircraft equipment lined up in rows and our "museum exhibits", the TU-144, delighted and delighted. Even the two strategic exhibits, which were not painted, did not change the picture of the holiday.
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Even in her youth, when the windows of the medical school dormitory in the Siberian Kurgan overlooked the airfield, she dreamed of parachuting - and went to the local aero club. But instead of the parachute department, by the reservation of fate, she "signed up for airplanes." He still remembers the first real flight - how breathtaking it was, and his soul soared and seemed to sing: "It was the most incredible flight, I have never experienced such sensations in my life: the amazing steepness, the sky and the earth revolve around the plane at breakneck speed..."
The flight program of the International Aviation and Space salon MAKS-2011, which will be held in Zhukovsky from August 16 to 21, promises a lot of exciting things. And demonstration flights of ten aircraft that participated in repelling the Nazi raids on Moscow, and the world's largest passenger A-380, and attack aircraft of the US Air Force, and French Rafale fighters. But there will be no Sukhoi Design Bureau sports planes on this MAX. Svetlana Kapanina, an instructor pilot at the Sukhoi Design Bureau, six—time absolute world champion in aerobatics, two-time absolute champion of the World Air Games, winner of the nominal medal "Best Pilot of the Century" FAI (International Aviation Federation), told Friday why it happened.
What other sport has such a high social, educational, intellectual, and propaganda potential as aviation? The century of the existence of aviation has shown that – no! The achievements of Russian aviation athletes are enormous. But they are already becoming part of history. At the next two world championships in aerobatics on piston aircraft, only women, of whom there are only two left in the national team, confirmed their class. Our men have lost.
In some ways, she clearly resembles the heroine of the film "The French Woman". But unlike most girls who dreamed of becoming actresses, three-time absolute world champion in sports piloting, three-time absolute champion of the World Air Games Svetlana Kapanina dreamed of the sky since childhood. However, before taking off in her sports "Su", she had to try herself in other areas.
Air sports, like car racing, is considered the lot of the male half of humanity. She broke that stereotype. For many years, her name has been among the ten strongest pilots in the world. The winner of the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, winner of the National Award for Public Recognition of Women's achievements "Olympia", seven–time absolute world champion in aerobatics among women - behind all these titles stands the magnificent Svetlana Kapanina, a beautiful woman with a strong character.
"Our country has always been a powerful aviation power. We must continue to be like that."