Russian Jet Cabrio Flight [updated]
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.
Pilot Says “Love You”
One Russian pilot has said “Love You” to his girlfriend in a manner that the whole Perm city has learned about that too.
Dope at 30,000ft
If next time during the flight by Russian airline you’ll notice that the flight attendants or pilots are looking strange you’ll know the reason why. They as a rule are not being searched before the flight so can take with themselves anything they like.
Russian Flying Fortresses
In 1930s Russian army was … by the idea of creating huge planes. At that times they were proposed to have as much propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented at those times yet.
Not much photos were saved since that times, because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time passed already. Still on the photo below you can see one of such planes - a heavy bomber K-7.
Now modern history lovers in Russia try to reconstruct according the plans left in once to be top-secret Russian army archives their look in full color. This is one example based on ideas of Russian aviation engineers of that times.
The MIG Story
Russian fighter MIG is probably best known Russian military jet. It acts at many movies as a typical Russian warfare and is often recognizable by even non professionals. Here is a short story of MIG evolution. The one above is the first MIG ever - MIG-1.
Bad Landing
Sometimes landing goes wrong.
Russian Jet Fighters in Afghanistan
These are photos from private archives of Russian SU-25 jet fighters in Afghanistan War at 1980s.
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