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The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: Микоян МиГ-29; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union.Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Sukhoi Su-27, was developed to counter U.S. fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 ...
RAF Tornado GR.1 vs. IQAF MiG-29. It has been claimed by some sources that a Royal Air Force Tornado GR1 (ZA467) crewed by Squadron Leaders Gary Lennox and Adrian Weeks was shot down on 19 January by an R-60MK (NATO reporting name: AA-8 Aphid) missile fired from an Iraqi MiG-29 piloted by Jameel Sayhood, [15] however this aircraft is officially ...
On May 27, 1997, a large and slow-moving F5 tornado caused extreme damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. The tornado killed 27 residents of the town, mainly in a single subdivision, and inflicted approximately $40 million (1997 USD) in damages in its 13-minute, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) track.
The MiG-29M/M2 aircraft is a revision of the basic MiG-29. It achieved a more multi-role capability with enhanced use of air-to-air and air-to-ground high-precision weapons. [4] It also featured a considerably increased combat range, owing to an increase in its internal fuel capacity. [4] A few changes took place during the aircraft's development.
There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than 50 years, according to planecrashmap.com. Last September, a Navy jet crashed into a Lake Worth neighborhood after a ...
A Sikorsky UH-60L Blackhawk, 91-26321, [182] of the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, [183] Texas Army National Guard, crashed on the campus at Texas A&M University just after take-off due to tail rotor failure, killing 2nd Lt. Zachary Cook - a 2008 Texas A&M graduate and member of the Texas A&M ROTC and Aggie Corps of Cadets - and injuring four ...
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The incident in Texas comes amid a time of heightened concern over aviation safety, following the Jan. 29 Washington, D.C., plane crash that sent two aircrafts plummeting into the Potomac River ...