Let's hope the canopy pre-ejection sequence is swift taking the IF Rail/Hood with it
Yep, otherwise it would be curtains for him..
This shows the L39 version
http://blog.cwam.org/2011_05_01_archive.html viewed from the back seat.
http://blog.cwam.org/2011_05_01_archive.html external
Coff,
This is one of the two I worked on when they came to the UK initially, I had to translate the cockpit from Russian to English using manuals that were translated to Nigerian and then back to English and with the aid of a English russian dictionary, I also designed the paint scheme it is wearing and was involved in the painting of it amongst other things... The American owner who bought it then added all the bling... Badges, eyes, feet, stars CCPP etc and put it on the U.S. display circuit. We operated them for a bit until they were sold.
They were some of the first to come out of the East and the first in the Uk, I remember sitting in the cockpit thinking if you told me 5 years ish earlier upon leaving the RAF pre the wall going down that I would be sitting in and working on a Russian military jet, I would have thought you were barking mad..
http://jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=N9CY
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