MiG-29 - Russian Af "Swifts" (Team Current Scheme) (1:72)

The Swifts are one of the Russian Air Forces main aerobatic teams and currently fly six MiG-29 Fulcrums pooled from six MiG-29A single-seaters and two MiG-29UB two-seaters, which operate from the 237th Proskurov Guards aircraft demonstration centre at Kubinka Air Base. In October 1991 the team carried out its first display abroad, when it paid a visit to the Swedish Uppsala airbase. The tight six-aircraft formation carried out almost every aerobatic stunt: oblique loop, loop-the-loop, barrel roll, etc., and ended with a spectacular break-up of aircraft to various directions, the so-called tulip breakup, followed by a volley of flares, fired by fighters. The Swifts Aerobatic team flies around 50 displays per year. Its pilots have visited in excess of 28 foreign countries and the team traditionally participates in Tushino air parades and Zhukovsky air shows. Estimated release date: January 2008

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