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Su-27 crash in Lithuania : Russia provided Lithuania with “the wrong” data about fighter

Russia “intentionally” provided the “wrong” data about crashed in Lithuania two weeks ago Su-27 fighter. This was told by Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian secretary of defense in Thursday’s interview to ‘Ziniu radijas’ radio broadcasting company.

By his opinion, Russian side tried to ‘lower down investigation results’.
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L-39

L-39 jet-plane is used by Rus aerobatic team. All the miracles of aerobatic we can see from the land, Rus pilots are doing on this plane. A little bit old already, but still very manoeuvrable and useful. All the photos have been made by me personally, when I went to training base near the Moscow and flew this plane together with one of Rus pilots.
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Su-27 crash in Lithuania

RIA Novosti

Russian pilot Valery Troyanov, crashed over Lithuania 15 of September, wasn’t been presented the accusation. It’s only suspicion in criminal act of violation the rules of international flights. It was told on Tuesday by prosecutor of Lithuania Mindaugas Duda.
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Tu-154 didn’t stop on landing strip in Istanbul

RIA Novosti.

In Istanbul airport Russian plane wasn’t able to stop on landing strip because of braking system defect.

As TV company Haberturk reports, Tu-154 aircraft of “Airlines 400″ company was doing flight Moscow-Istanbul.

Bacause of defect airliner wasn’t able to stop on landing strip and went out it’s border. Plane stopped only after emergency braking system was activated. As a result, 11 of 12 chassis came out of order.

By preliminary info, there are no casualties, but accident cause panic among the passengers.

Russian Knights video

Click to download Russian Knights 49 Mb, 4:34, 352 x 288, avi.

Russian Knights, excellent aerobatic team. They fly Su-27, agressive, beautiful plane with powerfull thrust. It allows pilots to have more freedom and control over the plane - as a result, excellent show they are giving us in the skies.
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Valery Sobolev L-39 pilotage

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Valery Sobolev is a leading pilot of Rus aerobatic team. Excellent video, cockpit view, 9:43 of beatifull aerobatic over the Zhukovsky, during MAKS exhibition.
This video gives you full presence feeling, completely amazing. Valery demonstrates cross-courses pilotage through the planes line and “The bell” aerobatic figure. The smoke behind the plane is taking you completely away with the feeling of free fall.
You can see, all these miracles, pilots are demonstrating in the sky, are really hard work.
Valery Sobolev already became a star of all aerobatic videos, you can often see him in MAKS trailers. Exactly, shots from this video are often beeing used in advertising videoclips.
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Tu-22 Blinder long-range bomber and missile carrier

Two engines, thrust each: 16500 kg
Crew: 3
Speed: 1640 kmph
Maximum altitude: 13500 meters
Flight distance: 5650 km
Take-off weight: 92000 kg
Bomb load: up to 9000 kg
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Su-27 fighter crashed in Lithuania

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - A Russian Su-27 fighter bomber crashed in Lithuania Thursday after violating the NATO member’s airspace, prompting an investigation, Lithuanian officials said.

The pilot ejected safely before the plane crashed about 120 miles northwest of the capital while flying from St. Petersburg to Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the Defense Ministry said. Continue reading Su-27 fighter crashed in Lithuania…

MIG Aircraft Company cuts its staff by 40 percent

MOSCOW, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - The MIG Aircraft Company plans to cut by 40 percent its managerial staff by the year-end, the company reported on Tuesday. Staff optimization is aimed at accelerating the process of adopting production decisions, raising wages for skilled personnel and at funding better the Mikoyan design office, what related to the market enlargement and activisation of works under new avia technologies development.

The Russian aircraft corporation unites 14 enterprises. Over the past 60 years, it built 60,000 MIG planes. Out of the total, 11,000 were exported to 40 countries, Prime-Tass reported on Tuesday.

MAKS Trailer

Click to download MAKS trailer 39 Mb, mpeg.

Jesus, guys. This video makes me completely crazy. I think - this is exactly how such videos should be done. So active, so energetic, so with love.
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