KSL-TV
Boy with cancer flies jet with help of Davis High class and Make-A-Wish
KSL-TV
Wright - through the Make-A-Wish Foundation and fundraising efforts of a marketing class at Davis High School - flew over California in an L-39 Albatros training aircraft at the end of January. He even had control of the plane for a time, ...

Air Fiesta to feature vintage Russian jet fighter
Brownsville Herald
While the aircraft is only "only marginally supersonic," he said, it was much more maneuverable than the American fighters — including the MiG's primary foe, the F-4 Phantom. "We got to fighting (the MiG-17) in Vietnam," Ball said.

Gagarin bust unveiled at planetarium
Times of India
But he died in 1968 when a MiG 15 training jet he was piloting crashed. "The bust is a gift from Russia. The Russian Federation authorities have decided that to commemorate the feats of Yuri Gagrin, different cities in India will be presented with his ...

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UFODigest
UFOs vs. Earth: Low Intensity Warfare?
UFODigest
The giant aircraft, an element of the 68th Bomber Squadron out of North Carolina, was in the middle of a long patrol of the Atlantic Ocean, coming as close to the USSR as they dared. But Cold War tension would be the very last factor to affect the ...

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Nigeria Intel
Nigeria 2012 Budget: Analyzing Defence Spending
Nigeria Intel
The Nigeria Air Force has its tactical air command in Makurdi with Russian MiG-21 fighter jets, maritime squadrons in Benin with Dornier 128 and 228 aircraft, military transport group in Lagos with C-130, special forces group and combat squadron in ...

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PROCUREMENT: India Reinvents Obsolete F-16s
Strategy Page
But the F-16 is a high performance aircraft, with a proven combat record, while the LCA is sort of an improved Mirage/MiG-21 type design. Not too shabby, and cheap (about half the cost of an F-16). Also, for all this time, money and grief, ...

Budget 2012: On Defence Spending (5)
THISDAY Live
The Nigeria Air Force has its tactical air command in Makurdi with Russian MiG-21 fighter jets, maritime squadrons in Benin with Dornier 128 and 228 aircraft, military transport group in Lagos with C-130, special forces group and combat squadron in ...

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Business Insider
The Indian Air Force Faces Significant Challenges In Modernizing Its ...
Business Insider
The first is the age of many of the aircraft types flown. For instance, the MiG-21 first entered service with the IAF in 1964, and it is not only one of the most numerous jets operated in the IAF, but it also is expected to be in service for a few more ...

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Financial Times
MMRCA: Counter Point – Analysis
Eurasia Review
India went on to manufacture many different types of the MiG-21 until 1987 as there was no alternative. After a decade long debate, the Deep Penetration Strike Aircraft (DPSA) Jaguar built by a consortium of European countries was purchased in 1979.
India plays fighter catch-upAsia Times Online

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Financial Times
MMRCA: Counter Point
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
India went on to manufacture many different types of the MiG-21 until 1987 as there was no alternative. After a decade long debate, the Deep Penetration Strike Aircraft (DPSA) Jaguar built by a consortium of European countries was purchased in 1979.
India plays fighter catch-upAsia Times Online

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India plays fighter catch-up
Asia Times Online
India has been looking to build a fighter jet fleet that will replace its crash-prone Russian MiG-21 interceptors and fill a gap between the long-range Russian Sukhoi-30s and lightweight indigenous Tejas LCA fighters. While the Sukhois are a strategic ...

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Mountain Home News (blog)
An Air Museum Well Worth The Trip
Mountain Home News (blog)
I'd stopped to visit our daughter and son-in-law on my car trip east to DC a couple of years ago, and took a little time to wander around in a museum I hadn't seen in about 20 years, which is always being added-to as more aircraft become available.

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NATO extends Baltic air patrols
CBS News
(AP) BRUSSELS — NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday. Carmen Romero, NATO's deputy spokeswoman, said the decision "shows NATO's ...

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Salem-News.Com
The Downing of an American Ace
Salem-News.Com
But two planes associated with this legendary pilot Colonel Toon were identified during this period, one was a MiG-21 and one was a MiG-17, the number of that particular aircraft (bort number 3020) reportedly matched the number of the plane shot down ...

Tampabay.com
Armed Forces History Museum in Largo holds vast collection of military ...
Tampabay.com
In January 2011, a private donor gave the museum a Russian MiG-21, a supersonic fighter jet displayed near the front of the facility. • On July 5, 2011, Gov. Rick Scott chose the museum as his venue for a press conference to sign pieces of legislation ...

NATO extends Baltic air patrols
Newsday
The air patrol tried to get it back on course but arrived too late. In August, a French Mirage fighter on policing duty and a Lithuanian L-39 Albatross jet trainer crashed after a mid-air collision near the Zokniai air base in northern Lithuania.

Washington Times
NATO extends air policing operation over Baltic nations
Washington Post
BRUSSELS — NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday. Carmen Romero, NATO's deputy spokeswoman, said the decision “shows NATO's ...
NATO extends Baltic air patrols until 2018Kansas City Star

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NATO extends air policing operation over Baltic nations
Newser
By SLOBODAN LEKIC | AP | 12 hours, 42 minutes ago in NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday. Carmen Romero, NATO's deputy spokeswoman, ...

Daily Caller
NATO extends Baltic air patrols
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday. Carmen Romero, NATO's deputy spokeswoman, said the decision "shows NATO's ...
NATO Extends Baltic Air Patrols Until 2018ABC News

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Daily Caller
NATO extends Baltic air patrols until 2018
Daily Caller
By SLOBODAN LEKIC - AP Published: 9:34 AM 02/08/2012 | Updated: 1:50 PM 02/08/2012 BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said ...