Posted on 11/25/2016 4:51:24 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Famous Russian aircraft designer, co-creator of the MiG-29 fighter jet Ivan Mikoyan has died aged 89, Russian Rossiya-24 TV channel reports.
"All his life Ivan Mikoyan worked at the design bureau founded by his uncle, Artem Mikoyan, in 1939. He was a leading engineer and deputy chief designer," a statement published by the "Zvezda" TV channel said.
Ivan Mikoyan was born on September 1, 1927, in the USSR.
His father, Anastas Mikoyan (1895-1978) was a government figure, while his uncle, Anastas’ brother Artem Mikoyan (1905-1970), was the first general designer of the experimental design bureau MiG. Ivan graduated from a military aviation mechanics school and the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy to become an aircraft engineer. After graduation, he worked in his uncle’s design bureau, at first as the chief engineer, but later was appointed deputy chief designer.
Later he became an adviser of the Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG. During his career, he took part in the development of the design of the MiG-21 and the MiG-29 (NATO reporting name: "Fulcrum") fighters. For his work on the MiG-29, Mikoyan twice received the USSR State Prize state honor.
Mikoyan received the USSR State Prize honor twice for designing the MiG-29 fighter jet. The Mikoyan MiG-29 is a twin-engine jet fighter aircraft. It was developed in the Soviet Union by the Mikoyan design bureau in the 1970s to counter new US fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. The MiG-29 entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1982.
Read more: https://sputniknews.com/russia/201611251047830704-aircraft-designer-mikoyan-dies-89/
MiG-29 © Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik
RIP.
"WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. The awards will be presented at the White House on November 22nd.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ellen DeGeneres
Robert De Niro
Tom Hanks
Michael Jordan
Lorne Michaels
Robert Redford
Diana Ross
Vin Scully
Bruce Springsteen
Cicely Tyson
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/16/president-obama-names-recipients-presidential-medal-freedom
Mikoyan was more than a "government figure." He was an Old Bolshevik who survived the Stalin purges and served in the Politburo as one of the top Soviet leaders into the Brezhnev era. He was known as a Communist hardliner.
Celebrity is the greatest aim of most of our society.
That needs to be changed before events force that change.
I guess Obama’s choices prove how much he values in life.All of these award winners are Lefties who have supported him through his eight years in the White House.They have done Nothing of significant importance to improve the Lives or Security of the American People.
Mikoyan was of the most brilliant aerospace engineers in history. He was in the same class as Kelly Johnson, Igor Sikorsky, Wernher von Braun, Hugo Junkers, Thomas Sopwith, Dr. Willy Messerschmitt, and Jiro Horikoshi.
29’s (and her cousins) are some of the most beautiful aircraft around.
Vin Scully?
Presidential medal of freedom For Harry Caray ?
Did Mr Trump receive his Nobel prize yet?
Want a prize? Buy some Cracker Jack.
I seem to recall a defecting Soviet MiG-29 pilot landing his craft in Japan.
We’ve made the Court Jester, King.
My mistake. It was a MiG-25 that landed in Japan in 1980.
Yikes! It happened in 1976!?!
Russian of Armenian ancestry
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