Aug
13th
2012
MLP unrelated: VVS 100th Anniversary · 6:49pm Aug 13th, 2012
...has come, and gone.
And it's been awesome! RD most certainly would approve ;)
Didn't take too many pictures myself, because of the battery suddenly losing charge. Thankfully, there were a lot of other people with far superior camera optics anyway.
Such as this one - it's pretty much the first batch of quality photos to arrive, too. Enjoy:
https://picasaweb.google.com/117990383296131038585/100_let_vvs
https://picasaweb.google.com/117990383296131038585/100_let_vvs_2
https://picasaweb.google.com/117990383296131038585/100_let_vvs_3
Let's see, left to right: Su-27, Su-25, and MiG-29 ?
I've never seen a Russian airshow before. Looks cool.
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You're spot on! I guess the only difficult ones were the Su-25s in the middle - the 27 is pretty well-known, and the 29s are easily identifiable by their smoky exhaust lol)
As for the show - yeah, I enjoyed it a lot! Although, probably for different reasons than you would have (if you were there).
It is possible to see a great deal of modern Russian aviation every two years at MAKS air shows; however, since this was a one of a kind event, and an anniversary at that, we had many foreign guests: Italian, British, Polish aerobatic teams, a couple of Rafale fighters from France, too.
And most importantly, there were a lot of warbirds: a B-25, a Hurricane, a Mustang, a Corsair and many others. There even was a mock combat between a Fokker Dr.I and some Nieuport-esque biplane. Normally we don't get a lot of these, so that was a very rare and valuable opportunity to see these historic aircraft in flight and with our own eyes.