Timur Fatkullin

Timur Fatkullin is an aircraft pilot and aerobatic athlete, an International Class Master of Sports in aeronautics and the founder of the Aerotim team. He was born on 20 October 1993 in the village of Chornomorske in Crimea, took up climbing as a child, and in 2008 was a finalist for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize with a desalination invention. After first jumping from a plane in 2012 he earned a private pilot license and learned simple and complex aerobatics from coach Igor Chernov. In July 2019 he won a gold medal in the Intermediate category at the World Aerobatics Championships in Břeclav, and with Chernov and Dmitry Pogrebitsky he helped the Ukrainian team become absolute world champions. His team gained wider fame in 2020 when a video of Fatkullin flying past a balloon carrying a man drinking coffee won the GoPro Million Dollar Challenge among 56 thousand entries. In December 2020 he flew inverted half a meter above the ground between a ramp and a landing ramp while a motorcycle rider jumped overhead.