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by RobertS
31 Jan 2009, 14:31
Forum: Aviation Photo Forum
Topic: Mongolian Air-Force
Replies: 8
Views: 7570

Re: Mongolian Air-Force

Pilots in 1982 http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7822/92643568sg2.jpg http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7760/396200141resizepr4.jpg http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/948/59083627ho2.jpg http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/Iron-Curtain/Untitled-Scanned-78-1_resize.jpg?t=1231257731 http://img132...
by RobertS
31 Jan 2009, 14:22
Forum: Aviation Photo Forum
Topic: Mongolian Air-Force
Replies: 8
Views: 7570

Re: Mongolian Air-Force

MiG-21UM 'Mongol-B' "101" & MiG-21PFM 'Fishbed-F' "001"

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by RobertS
31 Jan 2009, 14:22
Forum: Aviation Photo Forum
Topic: Mongolian Air-Force
Replies: 8
Views: 7570

Re: Mongolian Air-Force

Thanks Gents !

Has anybody current pics of these Mongolian Fishbeds ?
Anything......wrecks...
Memorials like this:
http://www.legendtour.ru/rus/mongolia/f ... om_16b.jpg
Or photos of these MiG-21s with camo from later years:
http://www.photoblog.com/Bagabandi/2008/09/23/
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 19:34
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

MiG-17 SSSR Kushchevskaya AB 1963 http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/3402/95529346oa3.jpg sorry, the quality is so-so....."home-made" ORWO b&w negative http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2091/1073cutresizedd1.jpg Cut from 6x12 ORWO colour negative Kushchevskaya AB: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 19:18
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

1978, Su-17M2 in the export sand-green camouflage:

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by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 18:59
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

Hungarian Air-Force - Magyar-Légierő - Ka-26 "503" at Tököl AB 1980.

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Tököl AB - the home of the Soviet 515.iap.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.3 ... 8&t=h&z=14
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 17:12
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

MiG-23M "11" 5th gv.iap. - Sármellék AB, Hungary 1979

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Sármellék AB:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=46.6 ... 4&t=h&z=15
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 17:07
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

1977 May - SSSR, Mari AB(Мары), the "Russian Top-Gun" Here the Russians had a lot of flight-instructors with combat experience(in Egypt, Syria, Vietnam....). This unit - 1038-й ЦБП - had MiG-21PFM -21SM 1970-75, MiG-21bis 1974-87, MiG-23 from mid 70s and later MiG-29. Some of these planes wore very ...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 17:01
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

You took those pictures yourself? Wow, that requires a lot of guts! :shock: Yes. I was airframe-engine tech on MiG-21, Su-17 -22. That was a stupid era with stupid security(photographing) rules in WP AFs. For such pictures at that time it was possible to ring out easy in a tour to the solar Siberia...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 16:53
Forum: Aviation Photo Forum
Topic: Mongolian Air-Force
Replies: 8
Views: 7570

Re: Mongolian Air-Force

Mongolians - fighter-pilot training in SSSR 1973. They were trained on Jak-18, L-29, MiG-15UTI, MiG-17. Photos - Their second year in the Sovietunion, Primorsko-Akhtarsk AB, parachute-training. http://maps.google.ru/maps?f=q&hl=hu&geocode=&q=primorsko+achtarsk&sll=43.707594,29.970703&sspn=0.487421,1...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 16:50
Forum: Aviation Photo Forum
Topic: Mongolian Air-Force
Replies: 8
Views: 7570

Re: Mongolian Air-Force

..atmosphere... http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/7751/396200052resizeiq4.jpg http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4624/396200352resizego5.jpg http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6195/23794170fb3.jpg http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5316/396200361resizerp9.jpg http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6236/1...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 16:47
Forum: Aviation Photo Forum
Topic: Mongolian Air-Force
Replies: 8
Views: 7570

Mongolian Air-Force

Few operational photos from my archive. All from 1982, Nalayh AB: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.745095,107.381229&spn=0.113352,0.30899&t=h&z=12 They had natural-metal ex-Soviet AF MiG-21PFMs and MiG-21US. Known side-numbers in 1982: MiG-21PFM - 001-012 MiG-21US - 101, 102 Sometimes later a f...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 16:40
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

SSSR Krasnodar AB 1978 My favorites are the same panoramic shots with a lot of different types http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/Iron-Curtain/er.jpg?t=1231699390 In those days Peruvian and Iraqi pilots were on Su-20 training here, Viet, Hungarian, Polish, Indian, Ethiopian etc.... pilots were...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 16:36
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

"spotting" in the SSSR, Krasnodar AB 1979, MiG-21PFM "72" landing http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/1598/a1uk3.jpg http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1647/a2av9.jpg http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1846/a3ej5.jpg http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2112/a4my3.jpg ORWO colour-slides http://maps.goo...
by RobertS
30 Jan 2009, 16:30
Forum: Aviation Photos - Thematic & non-actual
Topic: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only
Replies: 120
Views: 110445

Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

Some rare shots from my archive - all from the Cold-War Era

1977 GDR, Damgarten AB - Soviet AF 773rd iap. MiG-21bis

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