1975 Albanian Mig-21Crazy Escape From Yugoslavia | DCS Reenactment
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What the story failed to mention is the escaping pilot got over the departure end of the runway, then ran out of gas... Because Mig-21
lols
Imagine if the Yugoslavian pilot actually said reeeeeeeeeeeeee when the Albanian pilot failed to deploy the parachute and instead engaged the afterburner.
Maybe he did...
Hahahaha this is true Story in the late 1970s an Albanian MiG-21F-13 aircraft mistakenly violated Yugoslav airspace during a drill. The Albanian plane, piloted by Luto Sadikaj, was captured by 2 Yugoslav MiG-21 aircraft. The Albanian plane was surrounded and forced to land at an airport in Kosovo.
But the Albanian pilot, at the moment when the plane made contact with the aerodrome runway, put the plane in force and took off again, leaving behind the two Yugoslav planes that had already opened the braking parachutes. Luto Sadikaj addressed Albania with great speed and returned home
Joke? You have to be very stupid to believe in that fairytale. The airport doesn't have AA?
Hahaha what a boss!😂💪🏼
Nice 👍🏻
I will comply. I was in Yougo in 1993 and was buzzed by a Mig 21 at low altitude-he went supersonic and shook our world.
Luto Sadikaj One of the best Albania’s pilots 🇦🇱
Yugoslavia means southern slavs as opposed to eastern slavs (jugo: southern). I was watching a cool vid interview with a Finnish MiG21 test pilot with lots of hours on the MiG21F13 and MiG21bis which was produced basically alongside the MiG23 mainly for export customers who wanted easier pilot conversion since the downgraded export 23MS has the same avionics as the 21bis, Finland and many other countries already operating the 21F13 preferred this choice.
So the interesting thing about the MiG21, the Finnish pilot was very clear that handling between the F13 and the Bis was different but performance and endurance qualities were identical, although the F13 was much lighter and less bulky. Of note was the speed capabilities, he said firstly it climbed at Mach 2 without losing speed which few aircraft do and the speed limitation was only because of directional instability which would cause an aircraft breakup at high Mach, so it was an important limitation but the MiG21 had no problem exceeding it so the pilot had to ensure to keep speed below the 2.05 Mach absolute airframe limitation. At the same time the rated altitude was around 18,000 metres but the aircraft would continue climbing at 2 Mach beyond 21,000 metres and this was another pilot restriction: the altitude limitation was due to a high stall speed and an airframe Mach limitation which came together at altitudes beyond 19,000 metres, the plane would go much higher but you would have to exceed the Mach limitation to remain above the IAS stall speed and cause an airframe breakup.
Thus, not unlike the MiG25 and Su15, the triad of superperformance Soviet fighter designs mooted in the late 50s the performance built into the MiG21 outweighed its own design capabilities. They were really pushing the envelope during that particular phase of fighter development.
The Finnish pilot did of course mention the endurance. He gave an example of take off and climb at full afterburner to 18,000 metres in 7 minutes, RTB and the entire flight would last about fifteen minutes from take off to landing with dry tanks. For the most part pilots used the afterburner sparingly. He also said the main notable difference between the F13 and Bis, aside from the inclusion of radar was the landing: the Bis had much bigger brakes so didn't need to use the chute but the F13 always had to use the chute.
I also saw an interview with the first western pilot to get a close look at the MiG21, the Israeli pilot who intercepted and escorted the MiG21F13 that defected from Syria. He wound up becoming the evaluation pilot for that plane so it was his reports which US Intelligence received as USAF combat advisories to be employed in Vietnam. What he said about it was being impressed mainly by the fact it was so cheaply and poorly built compared to the Mirage, some of the panelling wasn't even flush, everything was just riveted together with gaps and poor finishing and yet somehow performed like a rocketship, it was this combination which impressed him the most.
Ohhhh a nice not so abrupt ending without the traditional RC sass.
Yugoslavia translates to roughly mean "Land of the south Slavs" due to there position relative to the other major Slavic countries :)
The thumbnail is a serbian jet lol
Yugoslavia they named it after the Yugo car.
(I'm kidding I know it's the other way around)
Funny how Albanian Mig is shown with Serbian air force livery. ( They hate each other ).
Yes, that is maybe the worst choice of a skin for the Albanian plane :)
Probably just didn’t have an Albanian one
RC's default cruise speed: Mach 2+
Typical landing speed: Mach 1
Typical takeoff speed: 300kts
That's slow for RC.
Very cool vid concept!
1:51 - I was so hoping for RC to say something like "F U Copper, you'll never take me alive!"
Don't ever believe 2 play with the 🇦🇱😉
Hey! Could you try and find out how many impacts from different air to ground weapons are needed to sink the supercarrier? You guys are amazing
Roger
Yugoslavia means lower slavs basically. Yugo=lower (lower in geographic location)
thx
South slavs.
not it does not mean lower. It means South. Yugo = South + Slav = Slavic (YugoSlavia) South Slavic
well south is lower in the map
@@republic0_032 depends how you are holding the map
I cant seem to find a damn source. Someone help
Not entirely relevant to the video but, have you guys had issues with the flight model for the 21 on beta? With SAU on and fully lean the plane still wants to pitch down with full back trim. Even with the auto pilot engaged it wants to dump me into the floor. Could be me doing something wrong but it was flying beautifully some weeks ago
I heard there is something wrong with SAU at moment? Haven't tested it.
@@grimreapers fair enough, cheers for getting back to me
Love you, Arcee.
The funny thing is i thought it was the ai responding until he started laughn smh lol
Any news on them fixing the memory leak with the MiG-21bis radar?
I wasn't aware of the prob sorry.
Can you imagine the bollocking the Yugoslavian pilots got 😂
No cuz it probably didnt happen.
@@TheGranicd of course it happened.
Ngl the Albanian pilot should had not even entered the Yugoslav air space this whole situation wouldn't have happened if he didn't enter Yugoslav airspace.
How do you get that sheet on the dash below the reticle?
It should always be there.
@@grimreapers not on mine
2:19
Well, there might be some who think otherwise. ;)
Is there any reference to this event? Because it makes no sence.
Name of albanian pilot Luto Sadikaj.
thx
It's You-Go-Slavia! Get it?
6:04 Supercap moment
Having Eddie Izzard flashbacks... "I've got a lion heart". "I've got a duck heart".
I have no emotion. That's how I got job. Call sign "Numb Nuts"
Our guys should've just shot down the spy.
Also Jugoslavija (original name, spelled with Y in english) came from the word south (jug) and Slavs. Was meant to unite all the south Slavs under one glorious state and the name is perfection my frien, just as all the Slavic people are :)
funny how i can't find any reference that this ever happened. like, no articles about it, no mention of it on wikipedia or other sites regarding cold war intrusions/interceptions of this nature.
not to mention, it makes no sense that there was no SAM anywhere nearby that could shoot at the albanian mig after it took back off, or anything like that.
There are only Albanian articles, Yugoslavia never admitted or addressed this event because of the public image. They kept a lot of incidents secret besides this one.
OK Cap.In 2006 during a dogfight between 2 Greek F16s and 2 Turkish F16s,one of the turkish F16 came very close to the Greek F16 and doing an illegal maneuvre hit the canopy of the greek f16 with its wing.Both aircrafts crashed.This was the official conclusion.The Turkish pilot managed to eject and be rescued by a ship.The Greek pilot was killed instantly.His name was Cpt.Kostas Iliakis.Could you do a video with this subject?You can read here www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pilot-killed-in-mock-dogfight-6j3fm9m8n0q
Thx Trucker
Yugoslavia means southern slavs and was 'unified' when they had 'freedom' from the USSR
Wow I'm early
Lol I’m Albanian and but we live in Montenegro and my dad was in the Yugoslavian army and then fart in Kosovo with the Albania army lol
Me when the Albanian army farting in Kosovo 😳
Joined the army just to fart
Albania never had MiG-21, what you are described here as MiG-21 is actually a Chengdu J-7 (Chinese copy of the MiG-21). Early Chengdu J-7 where in every way much worse planes compared to the MiG-21, so Yugoslavian MiGs wouldn't have any problems to intercept them (thanks to the ground radars). Also, I don't know does Albanian pilot have a fuel shortage, or he was killed by SAM (airport in Pristina is relatively near to Albania). One more thing, your MiG-21 has Serbian markings (adapted pre-war Royal Air Force), not Yugoslavian (red star in roundel)
ruclips.net/video/jOPZU7URZCM/видео.html
this video shows that they were/are real migs
Actually the Chengdu was in many ways better than the mig 21.
Both Planes have pros and cons.
He was not killed by a SAM but he died years later in a crash.
@@albinh.3149 Early Chengdu better than MiG 21? Those planes were cheap trash, China in those days doesn't have quality materials, electronics was rudimentary etc.
@@kakavdedatakavunuk8516
Read about it.
The chengdu was in some points worse and in some points better than the mig 21.
Only because its a copy doesnt mean its worse in everything.
@@albinh.3149 So you want to say that Chinese who copied (in those days), state-of-the-art fighter plane was able to do better aircraft without adequate tooling, knowing necessary materials, etc. Why you don't do similar today, half a century after them?
glory to albania
I have no clue where you got this data, but it's inaccurate. Stop being ignorant.
The older pilot heroics are never easily condensed into short 100% accurate cut and dry versions, so it might be correct according to their source material. Also, the "published" information isn't always plentifully available, and likely embellished by which side had issued it.
Proof?
Oh damn
@@IvicaGrujic Albania operated Chengdu J7 which is a chinese licensed copy of the mig 21 so you are not completly correct.
Wth is your problem. U have no clue yourself.