Strizhi (The Swifts) aerobatic team site

Dear visitors,
since we optmizing our web services this English-language blog is closed now.

Please note, that our first blog at Blogger was closed too, http://ruswifts.blogspot.com

Please navigate from http://blogs.strizhi.info/ and main http://strizhi.ru multilingual webpages, and you can watch for updates at the Forum and Photogallery, multilingual too, and finally on Videogallery.

There will be much more interesting stuff to see, so please keep in touch !

Thanks!

Dear visitors, our foreign fans and guest. As promised, here is the set of air-to-air videos taken from a real cockpits in real training flights.

VTS 01 1 from strizhi.ru on Vimeo.

Mi-28 helo group flight, part 2 from strizhi.ru on Vimeo.

Rospusk from strizhi.ru on Vimeo.

su-27-09-04-2010-diamond-training1 from strizhi.ru on Vimeo.

su-27-09-04-2010-diamond-training2 from strizhi.ru on Vimeo.

More to come, keep in touch with our news blog.

We congratulate guard major the first class pilot Alexey Novikov with assignment in the squadron Strizhi.
Shot facts: total flying time on MiG-29 makes 950 hours.
Alexey Novikov has mastered such types of aircraft as Yak-52, L-39, MiG-29. Performs aerobatic flight since 2009.

On November 4the Guards Lt. Col. Michael G. Loginov celebrates his birthday. Michael was a right wingman of “Swifts” from 1999 to 2003, squadron deputy commander, currently he is a pilot of Airbus (Aeroflot).

Misha, wishing all the best to you! Congratulations!
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Born on 01.11.63, in 1985 he graduated from Armavir Higher Military Aviation School. Since 1991, performed group and solo aerobatics in the aerobatic group “Swifts”. Until 1999, deputy commander of APG “Swifts”. The Colonel, “Military pilot-sniper. Took part in the fighting in the skies of Afghanistan. During the service in the Air Force has mastered four types of jet fighters, including MiG-29. Total flying time is more than 2000 hours.

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