MIG-29 - Beyond your Horizon
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2020
- Between 2001 and 2017, we flew our clients beyond their horizon. First, we started with "Edge of Space" flights with the MIG-25, over the years the only jet what remains was the MIG-29 of the Sokol building plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Flights took off on the runway, and the first altitude was 12,000 metres. Then the afterburners were ignited and pushed the jet with up to Mach 2,0 to high altitudes, in which the sky turned to dark-blue and you saw the curvature of Earth. Altitudes of max. Twenty-one thousand metres were reached, limited in 2015 to 17,500 metres.
By reaching a peak of altitude, 50% of fuel was consumed. Using of the afterburner means 30% more fuel consumption. On the way back to port, the pilots have shown our clients aerobatics on the most excellent level. Loopings, Immelmann's, tail slides, barrel rolls, inverted flights and much more were flown, based on what the stomach and mental power could endure.
In 2015 8 different GoPro cameras were installed, 3 of them outside mounted on the right tail of the MIG-29. This video here shows nearby an entire flight to the edge of space and with a lot of aerobatics. You hear Sergei Kara the pilot talking with the backseater Jez from England, who still loved that much!
Flights from Sokol were stopped finally in September 2017, and they will not come back again. We spoke in 2020 with the highest authorities in Russia (Rusaviation) for using the jet at Sokol for filming demands of the movie industry, but unfortunately, we heard the reasons what we expected to hear.
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Why not onboard? Why not Su-27 anymore?
We flew SU-27 up to 2006 at the Gromov Flight Research Institute what is located at Zuchovsky. Since 2017 there is no any kind of high-performance jet available finally for flying private individuals who do not have a flying license besides some vintage jets what can't be compared to a MIG-29.
Why stop?
Business decisions by the new shareholders of the Sokol Building plant.
@SPACE AFFAIRS Money greedy shareholders ruin everything. Everywhere. It should belong to the Russian people not to some obnoxious, grabby, private _'shareholders'_ exploiting the machines for their private interests. That's why I'd never pay for a flight there anymore. I would have. Gladly. If it was a Su-27, first, and secondly, if it was for something good, too. Not for private pockets.
@@Claude-Eckel When you had the chance to fly the SU-27, great experience. But the problem always was (doesn't matter Zuchovksy or Sokol), the money interest by the base itself was very low and it was a good opportunity to give all the people involved a better income. So, it wasn't the reason for "greedy investors and private people". We suggested for years to limit the flights, also to make it more expensive, so that the wallet for the jet service would have been better filled, but it wasn't reflected. All specialists told so, even the pilots. The jets belong to the state, so nobody had to pay for the jets. But in all the years (jet flights in Russia started in 1996) the spare parts were available but then running short. A jet turbine for a MIG-29 cost of $2,5m finally each as an example. And count self, how many flights you need to do until the break-even point is reached. It would not have made any sense to run it without having the extra budgets for all of it. Flying high-performance fighter jets by a private company is not possible. The jets aren't built to transport people like a Boeing or an Airbus. Even Russian jets aren't build for a long-life as like all the NATO jets, what need to have a lifetime of 30 years.