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Those photos are real and were made during the filming of the Russian movie involving jet fighter stunts. In one episode they had to film the jet without a canopy, so rather to film it on the ground they decided to hire a high-class pilot to make a real flight without that glass thing. He had to take off a few times on such plane in order to film enough material to be included in the final footage.
“The maximum speed I achieved on the jet plane without a canopy glass was around two times greater than speed of sound. While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside – it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air.“, writes the pilot.
“Usually such tests were conducted in winter time, so it was deadly cold without a canopy and I was pretty glad when this heating began, counting minutes before the plane would reach enough speed/velocity so that the air around becomes hot enough. But it wasn’t the main problem for me. In my personal rating of the dangers connected with such tests one of the most bad sides was the extreme roar. Because of this extreme roaring you couldn’t hear the radio so you were flying in deaf mode, you were afraid to pull throttle harder just because going faster was meaning going louder.“, he continues.
On the photo above: Russian military pilot Frolov is getting ready for the flight on the jet cabrio. It is pretty freezing outside, but it would be much colder when he would take off.
The plane is being prepared for the no-canopy flight.
A cabrio ride above the sea.
After the take off.
And that’s one more test – the second pilot tests the ejecting system while on the flight with no canopy installed. The first pilot remains in the plane.
And now the flight is over.
1st! I always wanted to ride in a convertible, maybe the pilot can cook a hotdog while at mach2 ?
The fastest cabrio in the world
Very interesting and very entertaining article, as usual.
I love pilots and anal sex.
Anal sex with pilot?
Is not you I was talking about Boria I’m sorry. have a nice day!
That’s quite a ride! No isle seat either.
OMFG picture: 8.jpg is the worst paintshop/photoshop work I’ve seen in a long time.
The smudge brush (as called in Paintshop Pro) usage is quite lame here don’t you think?
omg, you are so poor, you can’t even steal photoshop, you have to steal paintshop “pro” – sad.. :’(
I like PSP much better than PS.
sorry for double post
prove that it is not so
Prove that is not so.
“WTF”, you need to learn some logic and reasoning skills. You made a statement, BACK IT UP!
that;s awesome, i wouldn’t last 2 seconds in Russia…
If Russia is your biggest fan don’t say bad words. Have a great day!
I think you’re right about picture 3, but if it’s really an accident and not a test, why and how there’s another airplane taking pictures?
Perhaps the pilot send a radio to te command tower and another airplane took flight to take the pictures?
I think you’re right, M…
Ok then, seems like editor is editing the post to make some sense to it…
Stunt act for a movie does sound more better story now, it also explains the quality of the pictures…
You are right 100%. Fake story, lame attempt to turn an accident into something heroic. Good to keep the poor and uneducated patriotic and in line: “we are proud of Russia where there are no borders to heroic acts !!” There is no reason to test this, if you start reasoning like “but it can happen during flight” then there is no end to testing things, right ? Like trying to fly with half your wing shot off or with out a tail or with your parachute unfolding while you are still in the plane – all nonsense. Pilots are very well trained and can deal with these unusual situations.
Fake comment!
What`s problem? This is military aircraft. And sometimes fly without damaged canopy is more preferable than with canopy. After ejecting of second pilot you simply has no choice.
Don’t ever believe the captions on this site, it’s easy.
plane is like lada and other terrible russian machines all are rusting and falling apart
sorry to spoil this but this is from a russian movie called “Mirror Wars”, look for it on imdb, check the photo section there..
found it by googling SU-27 bort number 801
I’d heard that racism is rampant in Russia. Thanks for confirming that for me!
you are an enemy of russia. thanks for confirming that for me.
You’ll get over it.
Does anybody know how you eject the seat without taking off the canopy? Can Russian pilots go through the canopy like magic?
Check your medication my friend…
Speaking of no canopy, has anyone seen the photos of the F-22 pilot that got stuck in his plane for 5 hours while they tried to open his stuck canopy? They finally called the fire department and they had to saw the canopy off of the plane to rescue the pilot.
How old is this jet,it looks like it will fall apart soon!
Jason i love you, man
Their new stealth jets with the soviet star on the wings are much better!
This jet has soviet stars on it so it must be more than 20 years old.
Do you trust Russian planes Jason?Did you say a prayer and keep your fingers crossed when you flew to Moscow?
Delta travels from New York to Moscow.
I flew on Aeroflot from Moscow to Ekaterinburg and back.
The pretty stewardess gave me a piece of candy and a newspaper in english and I had no worries!
4.jpg above the open sea looks nice, no matter if photoshopped or not.
太帅了
tremendous！
It is a test-flight! The pilots name is Evegnij Frolov and not Kedrov and he is the main Russian test-pilot. This was a test of the ejection seats on the Su-35, and thats why there is no canopy. All ground pictures are taken after flight.
Nobody say he’s Kedrov. For some reason Frolov is in Kedrov’s helmet, but you can read his name at the uniform.
Kedrov is name of one of the character in the movie >> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337678/
Owner of blog has to go with what is presented. Is he supposed to research everything like the “Ministry of Information”? Of course there will be errors and misinformation if that is what he is sent.
I’m amazed the blog owner can keep this blog so full of info, keep it fresh and always entertaining. It must consume huge portions of his free time. For that I am grateful.
I don’t get it, why are there two separate aircraft with Bort number 801?
One has straight vertical tails, the other angled.
The only Flankers configured as both twin-seaters and with canards, are su-30mki and su-35ub…
nice observation… the Su-35UB was the first to have bort number 801, the one in picture nr. 7 is a su-27UB, painted like the -35UB one, i guess for movie filming purposes
You know, pic 7 is photoshopped so badly, they didn’t even care that the tail-planes are not level but looking down (the aircraft was probably photographed on the ground)
then again we’re yet to see what this is gonna turn into. could be good
Awesome i hope i can see these movie in Holland
This is a cool website.
I do not buy the story of this being a movie, nor is it an accident.
I believe what is actually happening here is that they are simply testing ejection seats. The most dangerous part of ejecting is going through the canopy, so if you want to test the seat in actual flight: remove the canopy!
Yes, I said THROUGH. I believe most modern ejection seats go through the canopy. A lot of seats have sharp blades at the top for punching through.
In any case – I love seeing pics of SU-27! One of the most beautiful planes ever built!
For what it’s worth, here’s what you find if you look at the metadata for these photos:
1.jpg
Equipment Make: Sony
Camera Model: DSC-F828
Creation Software: Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
Date Picture Taken: 2/10/2005 4:31 PM
2.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.jpg, 5.jpg, 6.jpg, 7.jpg, 8.jpg
Creation Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 (10.0×20061208 [20061208.beta.1251 2006/12/08:02:00:00 cutoff; m branch]) Macintosh
I have no idea why 1.jpg has diffrent metadata than 2-8, but it does. Also, the date on 1.jpg is what has me most interested.
I’d love to know what the source of this is. Kind of hard to take anyone seriously when you don’t cite sources.
That photoshop-metadata is quite pointless. More than likely someone has at least cropped/resized the pics to be more web-friendly, hence the pictures became ‘edited’.
this is awesome… and since it’s russian, it’s must be a fake
photoshop or something.
change the plane into a F-15, and some though american pilot, and hey.. it’s real!
love this site.
if an american does it,,,,,all fine and moms apple pie,,,,,,,,,,,if a Russian does it,,,,,,,,has to be faked,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bollocks !
I love this site, I often want to get the pictures myself, but you never have any sources for them, could you try and say where the pictures are from more?
If 8.pg is real, then this must be fake:
http://images.webpark.ru/uploads43/ahk_su_1.jpg
Have a nice day
After some espionage of my own, I can reveal that these pictures have something to do with the Russian film ‘Mirror Wars’, which, as it stars Malcolm McDowell and the mighty Rutger Hauer, must be awesome.
From the imdb site, one review says that ‘…all movie budget was spent for action scenes, plane crashings (very effective – without CG!)’ so maybe they really did crash a plane.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337678/ – check the photo gallery for yet another version of the ejection pic, this time less obviously photoshopped.
youtube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSPhG_YXjE
Article: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:s1k6ie9l5_IJ:motion.kodak.com/motion/uploadedFiles/sukhoi.pdf+%22mirror+wars%22+ejection&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=safari
So as it is from a film, who cares which bit is real. But I think it was flown without a canopy.
Bit more info here: http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=189657&st=0
Nice picture, also note differences on paint and top of tail edges…
http://www.neptunuslex.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ejection.jpg
Sorry if reposted, some of the links are censored here.
This is possible… Aerodynamically this plane can fly without glass and pilots are safe. American dumbs be quiet!
The Rusian jet plane speeding like the chino boat , that why the window openned, but the pilot no problem..he he…
Amazing pics! But either this is a set-up or it’s a refreshing take on an utter lack of health and safety!!
Aren’t you guys reading the article ? (or just look at the photos).
As it said, it was done for movie, and in Russia it’s cheaper to rent a plane, (or get it for free if it has even a slight propaganda purpose), then to pay ours of expensive CGI time to create graphic of the same quantity…
So when they have demounted cannopy, probably some of Suhoi guys tought “let’s also do ejection seat test” (much less dangerous then tests with a canopy).
This was a unique event I think, western solution will of course be to make a scene darker, and use CGI… (Times of “Top Gun” are over I’m afraid.
I believe it to be real photos, but I doubt mach two
And I doubt the ejector guy. Also I would expect the canopy to be blown of by explosives before the seat take off. Conside what would happen when someone is halfway out a splintered canopy meeting wind at a thousand kn per hour. Wouldn’t like that..
Real ejection, or at least it looked real in this turd of a movie. Might have had a dummy strapped in the seat though.
Hulu has the movie, which I just watched. Terrible!, but some nice jets and helicopter bits.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/86874/mirror-wars-reflection-one
Very good article. Looking forward to seeing you write more about this topic.
Always wondered if it was possible to fly without the canopy
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cool photos…