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Yuri Gagarin saved the famous American pilot from the KGB

Bob Hoover, an American aviation legend and one of America's most celebrated veterans, died on October 25, 2016 at the age of 94.

During his career, he managed to escape from captivity in a plane hijacked by the Nazis, work as a tester for supersonic airliners and travel around the world, performing aerobatics.

However, perhaps the most memorable moments in his life were what he called “an extraordinary adventure in the sky over Moscow,” writes Share America.

It happened in 1966 at the Tushino airfield. At the closing ceremony of the world aerobatics championship in the presence of more than a million spectators and reporters from around the world, Hoover, who was part of the team of American pilots, demonstrated breathtaking air shows on the Yak-18 aircraft.

But some of them, in particular, flying in an inverted position and the execution of a dead loop, were prohibited by Soviet rules.

Speech Hoover led the Soviet audience in delight. In his autobiography, the pilot recalls: “People waved their hands to me, applauded vigorously and rushed to the plane.”

But in the Soviet authorities such disobedience and ignoring the rules caused anger.

Hoover was taken away from the airfield in a company car and locked in a hotel room, guarded by two armed soldiers.

“Consider that you are under arrest,” the translator told the pilot.

A few hours later, the soldiers took him to the lobby of the hotel, where a banquet was held in honor of the completion of the airshow. Ironically, Yuri Gagarin spoke at the banquet at that moment.

A year earlier, in 1965, Hoover and Gagarin became friends at the Paris International Air Show. Despite the language barrier, good relations quickly established between them. Hoover spoke of Gagarin like this: “I had tremendous respect for him. Only a courageous and resolute man could neglect the dangers and become the first in orbit ”.

The French TV channel even prepared a program for two aviators. The television e-mail was about their courage, about mutual respect and the friendship they had recently made, they even showed pictures when they were water-skiing together.

Then Hoover could not have imagined that in a year they would meet in a hotel near Moscow, and that this meeting would play a decisive role in his life.

“I looked out from behind the backs of my escorts to look at him. Fortunately, he also saw me, ”Hoover writes in his autobiography.

Gagarin rushed to the American pilot and dragged him from the soldiers who did not dare to contradict one of the greatest heroes of the USSR. After a moment, they stood side by side on the stage.

Hoover’s book cites the words of a Soviet cosmonaut with whom he addressed the crowd: “What are these guards doing here? Mr. Hoover is an outstanding aviator. What's happening? What are they going to do? ”

Under cheers Gagarin "clumsily, but firmly hugged him."

“Representatives of the Soviet authorities, it seems, simply abandoned their intentions and submitted to Gagarin’s wishes,” writes Hoover.

The next morning, Hoover flew to Norway from Aeroflot, from where he returned to the USA.

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