AA37504 Mikoyan MiG-29A, Russian Air Force “The Swifts” Aerobatic Team, Kubinka Air Base,Moscow 2007

AA37504 Mikoyan MiG-29A, Russian Air Force “The Swifts” Aerobatic Team, Kubinka Air Base,Moscow 2007

  • The “Swifts” are one of the Russian Air Force’s 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.
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