We continue the publication of the memoirs of the pilot of the Beloyarsk airport Vladimir Wetlitsyn. In 1971, the commander of the An-2 Anatoly Semenov came to White Yar. The pilot, as they say, from God, who has almost all the permissions, kind soul.
The wife of Lyubasha kept him in strictness. But soon Lyuba and daughter tragically perished. Anatoly increasingly began to look into the glass, and was soon fired from aviation. Finished up to retirement the missing experience in the Beloyarsk aviation lighthouse with a simple parachute-fireman.
Among the first commanders of the Beloyarsk Air Enterprise, which I captured in the summer of 1970, were Boris Golovko, Yury Menchikov, Sasha Rebitva, Eduard Khvostov.
In the summer of 1970, I flew a co-pilot with Yuri Menchikov. It was a full-grown man of age, a former pilot-instructor at the flying club, giving a ticket to the skies of not one hundred young men and women. Calm, good-natured, tactful, Yuri Pavlovich somehow immediately arranged for himself. He reminded me of something of my school instructor pilot Nikolai Vasilyevich Grishin.
At these two super-pilots I tried to learn all the best. They played an important role in my becoming a professional pilot. And did I become a cool pilot? This will be said by those passengers and specialists, with whom fate connected, which gave me the opportunity to fly (without a dozen) 16,000 hours without a single accident! In the autumn of a couple of months, I flew a co-pilot with Boris Golovko, the exact opposite of Menchikov.
Golovko was energetic, impulsive, clockwork and business in the best sense of the word, although in business he was inferior to Sasha Rebitava. Golovko flew a little recklessly, which I liked about him. Much later I realized that this is not recklessness, not slovenliness, but a clear calculation and a profound knowledge of the theory of flight.
Eventually, Golovko left for the Il-14 in Novosibirsk-Severny. A little later, Munchikov Yuri was retrained to "IL18". In the winter I began to fly as a co-pilot with Rebitva Alexander, my neighbor on the landing. With him, we flew with a choice of sites from the air, serving the exploration lot of Petr Petrovich Shapovalov, who left in memory of White Yar a micro settlement of "geologists" near the old airport, near the boiler house of the DKVR.
Rebitta studied in absentia at the Faculty of Law of the Institute. He also went to the IL-14, but soon completed his flying career, began to work as a lawyer. Currently he lives in the city of Kremenchug in Ukraine. Eduard Khvostov came to White Yar for the post of commander of the link and stayed on it for more than 20 years, which, probably, is a record of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
A few years later the pilots of the link, and then most of the airport's employees, began to call him "daddy". I think it's not everyone who deserves such respect. When health was not allowed to remain on the flight work, Eduard Alexandrovich worked for several years as an engineer of the airfield service. Then he went to his homeland, to Kursk, but every year he came to White Yar.
Boris Alexandrovich Tsvetkov began his flying career in the White Yar in 1967 and flew in the sky of Verkhneket'ya for more than 20 years, having established himself as a class pilot-instructor. He gave a ticket to the further flight life of not one dozen second pilots.
For several years he was a full-time pilot-instructor of the aviation authority. The shaky health did not allow Boris Alexandrovich to continue his flying career and forced him to retire. Victor Shkarbonenko began to fly after the end of the Buguruslan flight school. In the autumn of 1971, at the end of November, he became my commander, having obtained admission to the flight as a pilot-instructor.
With him, I flew off the training program for commissioning the aircraft. By the end of March we had finished training flights in production conditions, and I was absolutely ready for independent flights. All my experience, my knowledge, love of aviation, all the nuances of the flight business, all the commander's secrets - absolutely everything without concealment, was given to me with the generosity of the Don Cossack!
I am grateful to Viktor Shkarbonenko for all the good that he has done for me! The soul and work of the teacher continue to live in his pupils, they say among the people.I am proud that I can call myself his disciple. Now Victor is retired. Lives in the Rostov region. In 1971, the link came "bu guruslunovtsy" Pavlov Nikolay and Krasnenky Gena, graduating from college with red diplomas.
Both passed the way of pilots and soon went to big equipment. Pavlov went to the IL-14 in Novosibirsk, where he lives now. Krasnenky was retrained to the Mi-8 helicopter, began to work in Kolpashevo. He graduated from a flying career, full of strength and health.
After retiring. He continued his father's business and became a hunter in the hunting farm in the Novosibirsk region. In 1972, Omsk pilots arrived for flight work: Davydov Sasha, Odnokoz Sasha and Strakhov Niolai. All three had the experience of flying on a jet plane "L-28", purchased at the air center before entering Omsk Flight Training College of Civil Aviation.
Very often all three were summoned to the military registration and enlistment office for military fees, and they flew there on combat aircraft, carried out training flights. At the link they were respectfully called "fighters." This experience came in handy later, when they retrained into large equipment.
Sasha Davydov became Alexander Ivanovich and finished his flying career as Omsk flight squad leader, retiring on health grounds. Strakhov Nikolai Mikhailovich 2002, and Odnokoz Alexander Nikolayevich in 1998 completed his flying career in the Kolpashevsky united air squad, currently reside in Omsk.