Natalia Abramovna Prokhanova
Natalja Abramovna Prokhanova ( Russian: Наталья Абрамовна Проханова ; born February 19, 1939 in Tambov , † 1993 ) was a Soviet female pilot who set a world record for women in 1965.
Life
Her father died during the Leningrad blockade . In the 8th grade she entered the Tambower air sports club. She attended the DOSAAF school in Saransk . Later she became a teacher in the Tambower air sports club. In 1962 she was one of 58 candidates for a woman's first space flight, but failed the health exam for cosmonaut training.
record
Training for the record flight began in 1964. On May 22, 1965, she reached a height of 24,336 meters with the special record version Je-33 of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 U fighter aircraft . The flight lasted 27 minutes. At the apex, the pilot experienced weightlessness.
Web links
- Short biography on astronaut.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo of the tombstone
- ↑ Natalia Abramovna Prokhanova (URS) (12875). In: fai.org. World Air Sports Federation, accessed May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Karl-Heinz Eyermann : Test pilots, MiGs, world records . Berlin 1969, p. 209 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prokhanova, Natalia Abramovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Проханова, Наталья Абрамовна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet record pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tambov |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |