The outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist in the area of flight mechanics and engineering aerodynamics, active member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin Peace Prize and the State Prize, Georgy Sergeevich Byushgens, died on July 31st, the press-service of TsAGI reports.

The founder of TsAGI’s scientific school of flight dynamics, G.S. Byushgens was employed by TsAGI in 1940 after graduation from Moscow Aviation Institute. He became the head of Flight Dynamics department in 1961 and was appointed the First Deputy Director of TsAGi in 1965.

The life of G.S. Byushgens was filled with remarkable events and teamwork with the best specialists of Soviet aerospace industry during its golden age. He and his colleagues have developed efficient computational methods for analysis of flight dynamics and elaborated the fundamental requirements for the aircraft’s steadiness and handling, which played significant part in development of advanced national transonic and supersonic aircraft and cruising missiles. G.S. Byushgens participated in elaboration of the major principles and algorithms for control mechanization for future aircraft.

He significantly contributed to development of several generations of Soviet aircraft: from the first supersonic jets MiG-17 and MiG-19, variable geometry wing aircraft MiG-23, Su-24, Tu-22M, Tu-160 and to the latest aircraft developed by design bureaus named after A.N. Tupolev, P.O. Sukhoi, A.I. Mikoyan, S.V. Ilyushin, A.S. Yakovlev, O.K. Antonov and G.E. Lozino-Lozinsky.

The role of G.S. Byushgens in TsAGi’s scientific work carried out in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences and teaching students of Moscow Aviation Institute and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology can hardly be overestimated. He was the man of encyclopedic knowledge and high culture with a colossal scientific, engineering and everyday experience. He was the author of many books and simply a charmer. G.S. Byushgens was a true patriarch of the national aeronautical science till his dying day. The whole epoch is gone.

The farewell ceremony took place on August 2nd 2013 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Zhukovsky Cultural Center.

The funeral was held at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery at 2 p.m..