Nice work, Martin. Looks like a nice little airshow!

Cheers

TJ

Lovely work. The air-to-air shot is simply gorgeous!

Cheers

TJ

I have come accross a couple of Russian sources that claim it was an SA-6.

:confused::confused::confused:

The 3rd Battalion of the 250th Rocket Brigade were awarded that National Medal for the downing of the only two manned NATO aircraft (F-117 & F-16) during the conflict. Both of these were with SA-3s. It was the Russian Defence Minister at the time who wrongly announced that the SA-6 was used to down the F-117.

During 2000 the Serbs involved gave television interviews and revealed that the system used was SA-3s. Since then the commander of the unit, Colonel Zoltan Dani, has given detailed interviews of the events.

Images of the rocket booster and nose cone on display from the F-117 downing.

http://www.aeronautics.ru/img002/mu-f117-sa3-missile01.jpg

http://www.aeronautics.ru/img002/mu-f117-sa3-missile02.jpg

http://www.stripes.com/01/jun01/ed060301h.html

“Lt. Col. Bosko Dotlic, a battalion commander. The one that downed the stealth was nicknamed Natalie.”

TJ

A video was released during 2006.

TJ

The only variant to carry the Fishbed E ASCC codename was the Mikoyan MiG-21F-13. It was never used again for any other variant. Over the years people in books and on the internet have attempted to give other MiG-21 variants this designation. Have a look all over the web and you’ll see what I mean. Everyone thinks they have the correct combination. The designation generally fell out of use and favour and resulted in Fishbed C being used to cover the F and F-13 and early J-7 variants.

In later years some types were allocated interim variant designations such as Flanker E variant 1 and variant 2, rather than simply allocating the next alphabetical letter.

http://www.designation-systems.net/non-us/soviet.html

TJ

The Flight Sim guys have now started to take up the challenge.

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/cgi-bin/ukarboard/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=4;t=47582;r=1

Cheers

TJ

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Yakovlev%20Yak-130&distinct_entry=true

TJ

Saw the Dak on Sunday (18th) came in low and slow over the Gisburn carboot sale (Lancs/Yorks border) at about 10.00 – Saw it coming in from a distance and recognised the profile 🙂 but was surprised to see it apparently reduce altitude as it approached – Those pilot’s obviously can’t resist a crowd 😀

Was much appreciated and everyone stopped what they were doing to watch – anyone fill me in on where it had been / was going?

Down for display at Blackpool on the 18th.

http://www.bbmf.co.uk/may08.html

The Dakota was displaying at Blackpool, North Weald and Rickmansworth.

TJ