DiCE81 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Melnyk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted August 5, 2013 ED Team Share Posted August 5, 2013 R.I.P Brave man Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
159th_Falcon Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 indeed, but what about all the other Hero's? Lots of people have given there lives, right there and then. Nothing negative towards Nikolai Melnyk though, just saying he was one of many hero's there. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] The keeper of all mathematical knowledge and the oracle of flight modeling.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver_Dragon Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Spanish newspeper talking of Nikolay death (in spanish) R.I.P http://enmemoria.lavanguardia.com/obituarios/nikolai-melnyk.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 (edited) indeed, but what about all the other Hero's? Lots of people have given there lives, right there and then. Nothing negative towards Nikolai Melnyk though, just saying he was one of many hero's there. Edit: Skimming, misread your meaning. Edited August 7, 2013 by maturin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron886 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 RIP. A hero to be sure. And I suspect that most of them were heroes because they were good at killing people in wars Time to ask what makes someone deserving of a "hero" award. Mr. Melnyk was doing his job, just like a good many attack helicopter pilots have done. It's more complicated than you make it out to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
159th_Falcon Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Sort of baffled why you felt the need to make that post. Because Nikolai Melnyk was not the only liquidator. He was one of thousands. Many volunteered. All hero's in my eyes. And not because they killed people in Wars. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] The keeper of all mathematical knowledge and the oracle of flight modeling.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 (edited) Why Melnyk? Besides the fact that he just died, the Soviet government would often choose (usually deserving) people to become symbolic of a larger effort. PR heroes or figureheads. But it goes without saying that Soviet society rarely erred on the side of individual credit (Stalin/Lenin aside) and always stressed the collective nature of any struggle or achievement. Edited August 7, 2013 by maturin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPTIDE Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Seems this was not any old pilot. If the text is correct it appears he had great skill. RIP. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RvETito Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I didn't manage to meet him in person while I was working with Ka-32 helicopters but he was a partner of my previous company and all of my older colleagues knew him so I've heard a lot about him. After Chernobyl he has got leucaemia (blood cancer) and his blood has been changed every year. "See, to me that's a stupid instrument. It tells what your angle of attack is. If you don't know you shouldn't be flying." - Chuck Yeager, from the back seat of F-15D at age 89. =RvE= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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