This is due to the Su-27’s super maneuverability: the airframe is capable of Pugachev’s Cobra, a maneuver in which an aircraft flying at low-to-moderate speed quickly raises its nose, the ...

In 1989, while flying a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet, Soviet test pilot Viktor Georgiyevich Pugachev did something that hadn't been done before: the Cobra Maneuver.It's gone by different names over ...

July 27 marks the 20th anniversary of the Sknyliv air show disaster near Lviv, Ukraine, that killed 77 people, including 28 children. It is the deadliest air show accident in history.