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First appearence og MIG-29 at Farnborough '88

Came past this article: https://news.google.com/newspapers?n...96,74675&hl=fi
Contrary to todays highway of information, in '88 one had to be lucky to have a buddy who had a worn VHS copy of foreign airshows and I was such fortunate around the '88 Farnborough show and enjoyed especially the presense of the MIG-29 wich had an amazing take-off where it just barely had lift when the gear was retracted :-o Common stuff on Youtube today but amazingly to experience in '88!
As the article describes I remember that the arriving MIG's was intercepted and folloved by a couple of RAF Tornado's, but I recall there was some twist with that escort without specific remembering what it was :-(
Does anybody remember the tell-tales from then?
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