Highlander

I don't think so. The one at the Petting Zoo is well and truly shagged.

It's well known that the Army has the Hinds and the AFSOC also operates the odd Mi and Antonov out of Hurlburt.

It was probably 2004/5 that I thought I saw it, your post may have just put this in my memory but I think I remember it being quite close a HAS and was with a few other period fighters as well. This would have been on the west side of the field, going along the road that leads to Porton.

Mig
 

Here - have a look at this.. Copy the xml below into notepad, save and then change the extension to .kml - click to run (requires google earth)

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Sort of answering my own question, but when I drove past- some time ago, I thought the tail looked 'MiG21ish' but looking down on it looks like a fencer, yet the intakes are prominant like a MiG ......Tornado! I wonder if its a Faux Fighter?

AR1, that's a fire training mockup, based on Tornado.

Contacttower, yes, that's where the BD museum lives.

BASED on a Tornado? Too much time on their hands. When I was a lad they'd just set fire to an old one, not design a new one!:)

anybody out there know the story behind the Mig/Sukhoi airframes that have been stored at Hawarden (round the back of the main GA hangar) for a while?

Sorry i dont know the type but they looked bigger than a 21 and were instantly recognisable as russian fighters. They looked in a poor state of repair.

thanks all :)

I believe that they were imported from one of the Baltic States during the early 1990s. IIRC it was Latvia.

Two of the Floggers are now in Newark Air Museum, Notts.

Link to pictures and forums in reference to the Hawarden airframes.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61446

http://laasdata.com/fra/bica_ctry.php?c=RA&t=

http://laasdata.com/fra/bica_ctry.php?c=YL&t=

http://www.qccuk.co.uk/pfa/Red%2054.htm

http://www.airliners.net/search/phot...nct_entry=true

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1065531/M

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5954523

http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos....den%20-%20EGNR

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.p...5954523&nseq=0

There is a Su-22 FITTER K (Former East German aircraft via the Luftwaffe) at RAF Scampton owned by Hawker Hunter Aviation. It flew into Scampton in 1999.

http://www.hunterteam.com/sukoi-22-M4_tech_specs.htm

One of the former East German FITTER Ks is at Spadeadam. I've heard rumours that this one was at Boscombe Down before ending up on the range.

http://192.5.30.122/rafspadeadam/visual.html

Privately owned in the US and bought direct from Kyrgyzstan in the 90's

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...cphotos003.jpg

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...lin&topic_set=

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...lin&topic_set=

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...lin&topic_set=

Back in August 1994 I saw a MIG-23/27 being towed from the black sheds on the southern side across the runway and put into one of the HAS. Presumably it was ex-East German but there was a tarp over most of the front fuselage and the tail.

Previously unreleased video of CONSTANT PEG MiG-23BN and J-7B:

There's certainly one in 617's hanger at Scampton or was in June when I was last there

Red Eagles is an interesting read, from memory one pilot tells the tale of how his favorite trick in an early model MiG 21 was to slow to 70 knots and then point his nose at the adversary, apparently the early versions with the “light” radar retained nose authority at that airspeed. Then there were the numerous F-14s who were beaten in low speed turning fights with a MiG 17, and the comments on the MiG 23 which centered around “Every time I strapped myself into this aircraft I reminded myself that it would try and kill me”, but that the aircraft had incredible acceleration.

I just wonder what they are playing with now - and when will we be looking at photos of Aurora.