Isn’t/wasn’t there a Chinook at the Mil OKB? And the Moscow Aviation Institute has the escape capsule from a F-111

I also hadn’t appreciated that the Tashkent production facilities were over 2 miles from the airfield.

Google has put out an imagery update-there’s some good stuff to be found in Russia now. For one, the Russian Knights are visible in Kubinka. One of the GORGON ABM silo fields is visible southwest of Moscow. And of course there are a bunch of new SAM sites visible as well!

Interesting, 11 Knights on one side and 1 on the other – along with 5 MIG-29s of the Swifts. Kubinka is rather different to how I imagined it somehow.

RAF Displays for 2007:

Reds, BBMF, Falcons, Typhoon solo, Tucano, Tutor, Hawk, Chinook, Sea King SAR Demos. (No Tornado GR4, Tornado F3, Harrier, Merlin, C130J solos).

The RAF is however staging “role demos” at selected venues – Abingdon; Biggin Hill; Cosford; Kemble; Waddington; RIAT; Kinross – which will see Tornado GR4s, Tornado F3s, Hawks, Merlins, Chinooks, C130J, E3D Sentry performing co-ordinated routines.

This article reveals all: http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/hangar/2007/430events/events.htm

I presume Kinloss rather than Kinross..

Note that the dateline on the story is 2nd May 2006

Ah yes, closer examination of the website reveals that it is 77115 and that there is some debate as to where it will be situated eventually, whether outside TsAGI, on Gromov Square or as a very last resort with LII.

What Puma hulk is that in the photograph?

I see the guy in the back is superflous. But given that they fly them without the guy in the front either, I suppose it’s understandable.