Mikhail Simonov. Life and work of the creator of the Su-27

The heavy fighter Su-27 is a stage machine in the domestic! aircraft building, and it is fully the brainchild of the radio designer of the Hero of the Russian Federation M.P. Simo-j Nova (1929-2011), who for almost two decades headed Oksy them. BY. Dry. Mikhail Petrovich Simonov went down in the history of aviation not only as the creator of the most perfect fighter the faithful generation in the world, the whole family of combat “dryers”, as they are lovingly called by pilots developed on its base (Su-30, | Su-33, Su-34, Su-35), but also sports aircraft-Su-26, CY-26N Su-29, Su-31, Su-49, on which our pilots won many gold medals at the world championships on the air acrobat, he also made a significant contribution to the creation of the Su-24 front-line bomb and the legendary Su-25 Su-25 Supervisor Supervision . In the prison, the 1990s for the country, Simonov managed to save the unique collective of the Sukhovites from the collapse and enter the global weapons market with products, which was a cut higher than that of the West |? competitors (so far the Su-27 family is the most popular product in the global aviation market).
In the galaxy of brilliant aviation designers, creating !! The loud glory of the Soviet aircraft industry, the name of M.P. Simonova stands apart: in addition to the amazing constituent to the design, he was heightened with everything new and unusual, he was still the talent of the economic leader, who managed to keep his OKB from the degradation in the years of the disgrace, which always worked for defense . Book Yu.A. OstapVN is a significant contribution to the portrait gallery a remarkable of designers of Soviet aviation equipment, people, literally make our winged homeland ... ”(Vladimir Deinek, Colonel General, former commander of the naval aviation of the Navy)