Soviet test pilot

A HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION.
Authors: Rogers, Rodney1,2
Source: Air Power History; Winter 2003, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p46, 10p
People: MOSOLOV, Georgi K.
Abstract: The article focuses on chief test pilot for the MiG Georgi
K. Mosolov. Mosolov was born in Ukraine and was enlisted in the Soviet
army at the age of eighteen in 1944. Mosolov had already started
learning to fly as a civilian before he joined the army. After the war
he matriculated as an army student aviator. On April 18, 1961 Mosolov
reached a world-record altitude of 34,714 meters above the earth's
surface in a MiG E-66A. Mosolov escaped a serious accident on
September 11, 1962 on MiG E-8/1, a high performance experimental
flight.