Russia 2013 (pic heavy)

[shaggy22]

For those who don't know I was lucky enough to visit Russia at the end of August this year. There was some incredible flying, SU35 & Russian attack helicopter demo in particular. MAKS also boasted the European demo of the PLAAF August 1st display team flying Shenyang J10's. We spent 2 days at Zhukovsky air base for MAKS, the weather on the first day was great, apart from the sun which is straight in front of the crowd line. The second days weather was poor to say the least, low cloud at the start of the day & when the cloud base lifted it started to rain. And to add insult to injury my camera died near the end of the show. Someone lent me a camera body so it wasn't the end of the world. A trip to the museum at Monino was also an experience as it has some rare aircraft types & as an added bonus is in close proximity to Kubinka. We also spent some time in Moscow itself which is a beautiful city, especially at night time. Anyway, enough yakking (see what I did there ) here are some pics of the static line up:


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Anyone have any idea what this is, I have no idea

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Wish I could remember what this was called, anyone know?

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As usual more on the flickr site, C+C welcome. Loads more to some on this thread, stay tuned

[Jonjon]

For the test :

This is the Miassichtchev M-55 "Mystic"

Great pictures, thanks for sharing! Lucky guy!!!

Fred

[shaggy22]

For the test :

This is the Miassichtchev M-55 "Mystic"

Great pictures, thanks for sharing! Lucky guy!!!

Fred

Thanks Fred, I knew the myasishchev bit, just couldn't remember the rest

[MIKE JG]

Quality stuff there. I've never even seen a few of those types before.

[Victory103]

So that should help with the MAIW package right??? Just kidding, so many types and most would scare me to fly in, especially the rotary types. Still a fan of the Flanker series, very sexy jet.

[Sonarboy]

Great pictures Dan. Thanks for sharing.

[shaggy22]

Great pictures Dan. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers mate, more to come today

[shaggy22]

Here some from the flying display, as I said the sun was directly in front so these aren't the best if i'm honest:


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As usual a few more on flickr if anyone is interested, C+C always welcome

[dk1213]

I love everything about Russia, the fighters are sexy, great architecture and the women are absolutely beautiful ..... I can only speak for the far east, Vladivostok/Siberian women that I personally have met but I am sure they are just as hot in Moscow, as a matter of fact I am planning on leaving the US for England next year for good and I will definitely make it over to Russia again for my first holiday. Its unbelievably cool there.

I really am impressed to see the US doing combined exercises like Vigilant Guardian with the Su-27's now. Gone are the days when the two were in the same airspace someone dies and Russia loses another great jet ........ that says something about Russian/US diplomacy for sure.

Great Pics!

[sprocky]

Dan, thanks for sharing the beautiful pics!

As a reward to answer the question about the prop bird have a look at the page below:
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... se-389913/

[shaggy22]

Thanks for the nice comments guys, most appreciated

As for Muscovite women, I can confirm they are stunning

The next set are from the museum at Monino just outside Moscow. We also had some nice flyovers from the base at Kubinka just up the road.

There is quite a lot of photos in this little lot but I think they are worth a look


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C+C always welcome, as usual more on flickr.

[Sonarboy]

You certainly didn't disappoint with the promised extra pictures Dan.

Unbelievable selection.

Many thanks for those.

Brian

[shaggy22]

You certainly didn't disappoint with the promised extra pictures Dan.

Unbelievable selection.

Many thanks for those.

Brian

Thanks Brian,

I'm, not finished yet either

[shaggy22]

Final set from me. As I said before, the weather for photography was awful, low cloud & even lower light, especially when the Chinese were displaying. Still lots of brilliant flying though


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Hope these have been of some interest, they certainly are to me

C+C welcome & more on Flickr & Facebook as usual

[ronniegj]

Really enjoyable! Ron

[Sonarboy]

Not every day we are allowed to get a glimpse of the present and certainly not much of the past Russian aircraft. The light may not have been what you wanted with your last set of photo's but you certainly captured the flavour.
Really enjoyed the pictures.
Thanks a million Dan

Brian

[shaggy22]

Thanks guys, most appreciated

[petebramley]

Great photo's Dan

They sure do know how to make pretty Aircraft, But there are a few very strange contraptions
as well


Just looking up at all those pictures and wondering how long it would take to load with a 9k6 Dialup
AH progress

[shaggy22]

They sure do know how to make pretty Aircraft, But there are a few very strange contraptions
as well

Amen to that. They're certainly not afraid of trying anything, even if it does look completely ridiculous

Just looking up at all those pictures and wondering how long it would take to load with a 9k6 Dialup
AH progres

I dread to think. Thank god for broadband

[shaggy22]

I got bored a couple of months ago & I decided to put all my pics from Russia into a video. I've had this sitting on my PC for a while now but never got round to uploading it anywhere. This mostly contains the pictures above plus a few more I edited for this. Enjoy, if you can last the full 20 minutes that is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STvehWMyTLc