Strizhi (The Swifts) aerobatic team site

Flight of three-planes formation Mirage-2000 + Su-27 + MiG-29 was cancelled, everything else will be as planned earlier.
Today weather is calm, +27.

Colonel Igor Tkachenko, leader of our united aerobatic team, from Al Ain (UAE):

“Today everything was OK, tomorrow at the end of airshow we will be in three-planes formation: Mirage-2000 + Su-27 + MiG-29.”

Today “Strizhi” (Swifts in English) and “Russkiye Vityazi” (Russian Knights in English) performed 3rd rhombus formation flight in the current Al Ain Airshow 2005, our takeoff always scheduled at 4:50 pm.
Current weather conditions at display area: haze because of sand dust in the air, visibility to the sun: 3-4 km, lack of the clouds, well for photographers .

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Now you can get an idea about such a formation. By clicking the link please go view and download the higher resolution (1200×800 pixels) photos taken at Kubinka AFB before, during the first training flights in season Winter 2005.




A closer look to our leader’s two-seater MiG-29UB “Sparka 01″ taxiing, and to running Su-27UB (Russkie Vityazi).

This is the brand new blue helmet of the Russkiye Vityazi Team – our aerobatic colleagues!

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Information about us (note that they called the Team as ‘Russian Strizhi’) and about all participants on the Al Ain Airshow 2005 official site.

Finally all the Team landed at Al Ain, UAE!

2 Su-27UB “Russkiye Vityazi”, 2 MiG-29UB “Strizhi” and transport Il-76 landed at Al Ain airport, United Arab Emirates.

Our first training flights at Al Ain scheduled in January 22, the demonstration flights will begin from January 24 with the program of common two-team “rhombus” of Su-27 and Mig-29.
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The map of the succesfully completed cross-countries flights, click to see

2 MiG-29 “Strizhi” and 2 Su-27 “Russkiye Vityazi” with transport Il-76 has started their flight to Al Ain, UAE.