IGOR

Igor had seen an aircraft flying when he was younger but, his first time flying happened in September 1939. Igor was in Poland doing very important research in the interest of science (namely investigating which cities had the best vodka and women) when he started seeing German troops come into town.

Thinking this was not the best place to be he headed out into the woods and started back east. Stumbling out of a clump of trees (still rather under the influence of his earlier research) he saw an aircraft sitting with wings like a bird in flight. Deciding that it couldn't be too hard to fly he jumped into the cockpit and started hitting buttons.

After driving across the field several times the aircraft finally got airborne and headed back east. Upon hitting about 5000 meters a German aircraft saw him and attacked. Not knowing any beter he dropped to ground level and started flying through a nearby factory area. After running out of ammo the German aircraft broke off and he was able to fly to Russian territory where he promptly joined the VVS.

Since that day he has hated the Germans for ruining the great time he was having and has equated flying high with trouble so he prefers to fly as low as possible.