These comments are bing made in my capacity as the quiz host and not as a particpant:
Gentlemen, could you post the source of the information. I am now running searches for Leonid G. Belousov and nothing is turning up other than a one liner!!!
Also, I must comment on the fact that the initial question hinted that the person was not an HSU when it transpires that he was indeed given such an award. This was slightly misleading, even though I guess the reference was made to the war years only.
As a general rule, remember, that the question has to be researchable. This means that we are trying to find questions that can be ideally resolved through online searches. The idea of this is to involve club members from all areas and if we focus on specialist areas, that may be unknown or cannot be found online, then we are limiting particcpation to the Soviet section. The aim of the quiz is to go beyond that. So the fact that I am running searches with our pilots full name and nothing much is turning up is not the best of signs.
Notwithstanding, let this take nothing away from Harvey for giving the correct answer
Harvey, we are ready to wait for you to set a question and the rules grant you up to 48 hours in which to do so. Part of the game is to answer the question but in doing so, we should also be more ready to take on responsibility to post a new question. Its OK to pass a question on from time to time but as a general rule, the running of the quiz should pass on to the person who answers the last question correctly and so on and so forth.
I fully agree that answering the question is much more fun than asking the question and monitoring replies....but someone has to do it And as much as we sometimes seem to ask and reply to questions in real time, it does not always have to be so fast and furious (although fast and furious is good!!)
Jim
If I see to much repeat passing of questions I'll tweak the rules to limit this....but for now things stand as is.