Test pilot Anatoly Kvochur died – Kommersant
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Honored test pilot, Hero of Russia Anatoly Kvochur died at the age of 71. This was reported by his son Nikolai Kvochur.
“Tonight, the Soviet and Russian pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Colonel Anatoly Nikolaevich Kvochur, passed away,” Nikolai Kvochur wrote on the Vkontakte social network in the community “Aviation”.
Anatoly Kvochur was born on April 16, 1952 in the village of Mazurovka, Ukrainian SSR. In 1973 he graduated from the Yeisk Higher Aviation Pilot School, and in 1981 from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Mr. Kvochur tested production Su-17 and its modifications, MiG-29 and MiG-31, as well as air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. In total, he mastered and tested more than 90 types and modifications of aircraft. In 1988, at the Farnborough Aviation Show, Anatoly Kvochur first showed an aerobatics maneuver – the “bell”. In 1992, by presidential decree, Anatoly Kvochur was awarded the title of Hero of Russia.
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