Inside The Cockpit - MiG-29 'Fulcrum' (9.12)

The MiG is an illegal terror weapon in the skies.

I always wondered if the export version of russian craft comes in english this confirms it 😂

I love that, in the pursuit of good performing aircraft, the designs just so happen to look so good. Doesn't matter what country or which manufacturer. The F-14 is iconic and simply satisfying to looks at. The Draken is intimidating and certainly unique, first aircraft to be able to perform a Cobra to my knowledge. The F-15 just feels fast. It can get it's wing sheared off and still be able to land. The F/A-18 stings harder than any hornet and those LEX are beautiful. The Gripen, the Typhoon and the Rafale have my vote for their canards. The Su-27 looks like it slices through the air. The F-22 looks majestic and I swear that it's doing some sort of air bending, along with the Su-57. And the MiG-29 is one of my favorites. I'm not even sure why, it looks amazing.

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So, 🤨a copy of the F15. Not to original.

Had a boss in the late 1990s who was a retired USAF colonel, with his last posting being a test pilot for captured Soviet planes, some put back together from crash sites with placards warning the left wing was bent 3 degrees down, don't pull over 5 Gs. I don't remember the exact planes. He said they were incredibly maneuverable, a dream to toss around the sky, and he could get on any American fighter's tail easy as cake. But the ergonomics were atrocious. He spent half his time scanning gauges instead of outside, they were not in any logical order, and whenever he did get on somebody's tail, actually firing weapons was a real problem at 8 Gs and he'd always lose his lock and have to start maneuvering back into position. You could tell what mixed emotions he had over them, wishing they had better ergonomics while glad they didn't.

I'm sure I've forgotten a lot of details and generalized too much from a few short conversations. But he wasn't the kind to sugar coat anything. 30 years and never got past colonel because he hated the politics of flag officers and refused to pussyfoot around them. Pretty neat guy.

Is no one going to talk about why a Russian-made aircraft, flown by Germans, has most of its cockpit in English?

Am I missing something? Preese exprain.

I think the mig 29 and su 27 show both amazing aircraft design but also the gigantic pitfalls that the USSR was after so long of authoratarian rule.

Fulcrum, come in.

Intake slats 4 life 💯🤟

No cigarette lighter?

It’s a great looking air frame, but compares nothing to the F-15 the F-18 or even the sexy ass F -16

SIMPLY THE MOST BEAUTIFULL AIRCRAFT EVER

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Years of development? More like years of interpreting and reverse engineering stolen documents of the F-14 and F-15..
I must admit it was ingenious incorporating both of them together.
It has been documented how the Soviets obtained the complete and total specifications of these aircraft. Even the maintenance manuals .
Thank you Chief Warrant Officer Walker

Мужик говорит как-то с акцентом. А я смотрю ещё есть туризм покататься на миг29 в нижнем Новгороде.

What surprised me the most is how the switches and flight controls are labeled in English

Inside the Fulcrum's hatch.

The Museum in Berlin-Gatow is awesome. I never get tired of it: MiGs, Sukhois, Phantoms, etc. There's even a British Harrier there!