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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 ...
Ghost of Kyiv, painting by Ukrainian illustrator Andrii Dankovych.. The Ghost of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Привид Києва, romanized: Pryvyd Kyieva, [1] pronounced [ˈprɪʋɪd ˈkɪjeʋɐ]) is the nickname given to a mythical [2] [3] [4] MiG-29 Fulcrum flying ace credited with shooting down six Russian planes over Kyiv during the Kyiv offensive on 24 February 2022.
8 June – A Tupolev Tu-95 ran off a runway at Ukrainka Air Base, Amur Oblast and caught fire during take-off. One crew member was killed and another badly burned. [65] [66] 3 July - A MiG-29 Fulcrum multirole jet fighter crashed in Krasnodar Krai. The pilot managed to catapult before the crash and was found later by a search team.
The 1988 crash of Delta Flight 1141 was the last major commercial accident at Dallas-Fort Worth. Ahead of the 35th anniversary, these Star-Telegram photos of the scene are published for the first ...
On Aug. 2, 1985, around 6:05 p.m., the Delta Air Lines Flight 191 from Florida to Los Angeles with 163 people aboard crashed short of the runway at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and ...
On 24 February 1996, two of the Brothers to the Rescue Cessna 337 Skymasters (twin-engine civilian light aircraft) were shot down by a Cuban Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29UB, while a second jet fighter, a MiG-23, orbited nearby. All the occupants of the aircraft were killed: Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Jr., Mario de la Peña and Pablo Morales.
The video shared by the air force on Friday shows Ukrainian military personnel loading the US-made bombs onto a MiG-29, a twin-engine multi-role fighter that has been in service for decades.
A United States Air Force (USAF) Convair C-131D Samaritan, 55-291, of the 7500th Air Base Group, on take-off from Munich-Riem Airport for a flight to RAF Northolt, United Kingdom, crashed at 14:10 local time in Munich, Germany, due to loss of power in one engine caused by fuel starvation; aircraft struck a church steeple and then a tramcar at ...