Ladislav Bezák

Ladislav Bezák, who lived from 1932 to November 2018, was a Czechoslovak aerobatic pilot. He was the first winner of the FAI World Aerobatic Championships, held in 1960, and in 1965 became the first pilot to win the Biancotto Trophy. He is remembered for performing the Lomcovák, a tumbling acrobatic maneuver, for the first time. In 1971 he defected from Czechoslovakia by flying a two-seat Zlín Z 226 from Prague to Nuremberg with his wife and four sons aboard; all six were granted political asylum by West Germany.