Olga Wassiljewna Klepikowa

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Olga Wassiljewna Klepikowa ( Russian Ольга Васильевна Клепикова ; born October 10, 1915 in Tula , † July 27, 2010 in Kiev ) was a Soviet glider pilot , flight instructor and test pilot .

Life

The daughter of a slaughterhouse worker worked as a lathe operator. When, at the age of 14, she discovered an airplane washing clothes by the river, she wondered how this thing is held in the sky. After that, it was clear to her that she wanted to learn to fly. In 1930 she was accepted at the Tula Aeroclub and in 1933 sent to the Moscow Aviation School, where she became a gliding instructor and set a number of records in 1938/40. For example, on July 1, 1939, she set a 380 km course record for women with an Antonov RF-7 . A week later, on July 6, 1939, she took off on a flight of the same type from the OSSOAWIACHIM airfield in Moscow-Tushino . She soon found that her flight ticket only extended 400 kilometers. After almost 8 hours and 25 minutes, she landed at 18:25 in a field near Ostradnoye, a village near Stalingrad . Her concerned club mates had made sure by evening that she had not landed in the nearby river, and the next morning they were surprised to receive a telegram from Stalingrad. The barograph had registered a distance of 749.203 km, which meant a new absolute distance world record while at the same time crossing the 700 km mark for the first time. It was not until 1951 that the American Richard Johnson outbid it. In the women's class, the record lasted 38 years until it was set in 1977 by the Polish Adela Dankowska. On June 19, 1940 Klepikova flew in the two-seater KIM-2 Stakhanovets together with W. Bordina 443.714 km from Tula to Konotop . After being treated for tuberculosis , she was no longer able to take part in gliding.

She married the pilot Peter Ugarow (Петр Угаров; 1915–1962), with whom she worked as a flight instructor at Stalingrad during the Second World War and flew fighter planes in Kazan and Rostov-on-Don . Both worked as test pilots at Moscow until 1953 and moved to Kiev the following year .

When the couple's apartment was broken into, their medals were stolen as well as their wallpapers. She was in correspondence with glider pilots from all over the world and in New Year 2007 received a visit from a ten-member German glider pilot group.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo of the tombstone of Olga Klepikowa
  2. ↑ Hartmut Buch: Gliding. Transpress, Berlin 1980, pp. 32-34
  3. ^ Gerhard Wissmann: Adventure in wind and clouds. The history of gliding. Transpress, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00275-9 , pp. 326-328
  4. ↑ http://4sport.ua/news.php?id=1012
  5. ↑ http://kiev-memory.narod.ru/2011/k8.jpg
  6. ↑ http://novaya.com.ua/?/articles/2008/10/29/180020-2
personal data
SURNAME Klepikowa, Olga Wassiljewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Клепикова, Ольга Васильевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian glider pilot, flight instructor and test pilot
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Tula
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2010
Place of death Kiev