{"id":26018977,"date":"2026-10-01T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=26018977"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:27:29","slug":"migflug-throwback-mig-25-mig-31-su-27-mig-29-flights-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/migflug-throwback-mig-25-mig-31-su-27-mig-29-flights-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: When MiGFlug Flew the MiG-25, MiG-31 and Su-27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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The oldest copy of migflug.com it holds dates from February 2005. Its page title was &ldquo;MiG Flights in Moscow and Russia&rdquo;, it was written in German, and its aircraft list reads like a Cold War order of battle: L-29, L-39, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-21-fishbed\/\">MiG-21<\/a>, MiG-23, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-25-foxbat\/\">MiG-25<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-29-fulcrum\/\">MiG-29<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-27-flanker\/\">Su-27<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those Russian flights are history now. But for well over a decade they were the heart of MiGFlug, and they produced some of the most extraordinary days any of our customers ever had. Here is what the archive shows: the jets, the flights we offered, and how the website itself changed along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #1a1a1a;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px\"><li><strong>Oldest archived MiGFlug site:<\/strong> February 2005, &ldquo;MiG Flights in Moscow and Russia&rdquo;<\/li><li><strong>2005 menu:<\/strong> 30-minute flights in the L-29, L-39, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-29, Su-27 and MiG-25<\/li><li><strong>2006:<\/strong> MiG-25 flights at Zhukovsky end; MiGFlug moves to Sokol, Nizhny Novgorod<\/li><li><strong>2008:<\/strong> MiG-31 Edge of Space flights at Sokol<\/li><li><strong>2011:<\/strong> MiG-29 flights at Sokol, including supersonic and Edge of Space flights<\/li><li><strong>2017:<\/strong> the last MiG-29 flights<\/li><li><strong>Today:<\/strong> the supersonic option is the MiG-21 in Florida, and we hope the MiG-29 returns<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">2005: A Menu of Soviet Fighters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2005 site had a page called \u201cAngebote\u201d, offers, and it is a time capsule. The menu started with 30-minute flights in the L-29 and L-39 jet trainers. Then came the fighters: the MiG-21, the MiG-23, the MiG-29, the Su-27 and, at the very top of the list, the MiG-25. Every flight included a translator and the transfer to the airbase, and take-off and landing time was not counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flight descriptions are pure 2005 enthusiasm. The MiG-25 page promised supersonic flight up to Mach 2.8 and a climb to 24 kilometres in two minutes. The Su-27 page listed Pugachev&rsquo;s Cobra and the tail slide in its flight programme, and so did the MiG-29&rsquo;s. Those were the website&rsquo;s claims, not measured figures, but they tell you what customers were being offered: the real aircraft, flown the way their test pilots showed them off at air shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MiG-25 Foxbat, the top of MiGFlug\u2019s 2005 menu. Photo: US Department of Defense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By November 2008 the star of the Russian programme was the MiG-31E Foxhound. The page described a 25 to 30-minute flight to roughly 22 to 23 kilometres, depending on weather and season, at up to Mach 2.35, with the chance to take the controls. It was honest about the jet&rsquo;s limits, too: the Foxhound, it noted, was far less suited to aerobatics than the MiG-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/mig-31-foxhound-flight.jpg\" alt=\"A MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor in flight\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The MiG-31 Foxhound: in 2008 MiGFlug flew Edge of Space flights in it from Sokol. Photo: US Department of Defense<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day itself was an expedition. A translator collected you from your Moscow hotel early in the morning, you took the train to the airport and a short domestic flight to Nizhny Novgorod, and a driver took you to the base. After a document check and a medical with the base doctor, a test pilot walked you through four possible flight programmes. Afterwards came lunch in the base canteen, a certificate and an evening flight back to Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Above you the sky turns pitch black, and countless stars become clearly visible, more clearly than you will ever see them otherwise.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>MiGFlug website<\/strong> &mdash; describing the MiG-31 Edge of Space flight, 2008 (translated from German)<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a while there was a western alternative as well. In 2008 MiGFlug also sold flights in South Africa in the BAe Buccaneer, the Hawker Hunter and the English Electric Lightning. The Lightning flight lasted 35 to 40 minutes, reached about Mach 1.4 on customer flights and climbed to nearly 22 kilometres, and, as the 2008 page pointed out, it seated the passenger beside the pilot rather than behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6zDZ0aP03Vg\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">2011 to 2017: The MiG-29 Years<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 2011 the MiG-29UB two-seater had taken over from the Foxhound. In July 2011, the MiGFlug site described Sokol as the only place in the world where civilians could legally fly a MiG-29, with three options: a 25-minute flight, a 45-minute flight including supersonic flight, and a flight to the edge of space at around 21 kilometres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Edge of Space flight became MiGFlug&rsquo;s signature product. By 2016 the climb took customers to 20 to 22 kilometres, high enough to see a black sky and the curvature of the Earth. They came back with cockpit video that is still among the most watched things we have ever published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PEH8iLjlodM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/Multiangle-Camera-package-at-the-Edge-of-Space.jpg\" alt=\"MiGFlug multi-angle camera view from a MiG-29 at the edge of space\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">From MiGFlug&rsquo;s multi-camera package on a MiG-29 Edge of Space flight: the tail, the wing and the curvature of the Earth. Photo: MiGFlug<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Only astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS will fly higher at this point.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>MiGFlug website<\/strong> &mdash; describing the MiG-29 Edge of Space flight<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MiG-29 flights ended in 2017. For a while afterwards the product pages stayed online, with a new line underneath: &ldquo;Sorry, currently not available. Contact us to get on waiting list.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F3li1NxJF1A\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How migflug.com Changed Along the Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading the old sites back to back is also a short history of the web. The <strong>2005<\/strong> site was built the way many small sites were then, out of HTML frames, with a separate navigation bar and header loaded into one window, a German section and an English section in separate folders, a photo gallery, a downloads page and a page listing the Moscow hotels you could book with your flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1439\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/migflug-website-2005-wayback.jpg\" alt=\"The migflug.com website in 2005, archived by the Wayback Machine\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e7ee\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">migflug.com in 2005, as archived by the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>2008<\/strong> MiGFlug had a proper content-managed site in German, English and Spanish, with a menu that tells you how much the business had grown: flights in Russia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, the USA and South Africa, zero-gravity flights, incentives, &ldquo;special services&rdquo;, a visit to the Monino museum and, a sign of the times, &ldquo;climate-neutral flights&rdquo;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1439\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/migflug-website-2008-wayback.jpg\" alt=\"The migflug.com website in 2008, archived by the Wayback Machine\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e7ee\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">migflug.com in 2008, as archived by the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>2011<\/strong> site moved to English-first addresses such as \u201c\/en\/jet-fighter-flights\/\u201d, gave the company address as a village on Lake Lucerne, and linked to Twitter, Facebook and an RSS feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1439\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/migflug-website-2011-wayback.jpg\" alt=\"The migflug.com website in 2011, archived by the Wayback Machine\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e7ee\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">migflug.com in 2011, as archived by the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>2017<\/strong> homepage greeted German visitors with \u201cSie k\u00f6nnen einen echten Kampfjet fliegen\u201d, you can fly a real fighter jet, under a big MiG-29 banner. It invited them to take a tour, listed some 19 flight programmes from the MiG-29 Edge of Space to L-39 flights in Florida, New York, California, Paris, Riga and San Marino, and showed a row of social icons that now looks like a museum in itself: Google Plus, Flickr, Tumblr and Pinterest next to YouTube and Instagram. The company had moved to Zurich by then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1439\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/migflug-website-2017-wayback.jpg\" alt=\"The German-language migflug.com homepage in January 2017 with a MiG-29 banner, archived by the Wayback Machine\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e7ee\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The German-language migflug.com homepage in January 2017, as archived by the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From around <strong>2018<\/strong> the site took on today\u2019s structure, with every flight living under \u201c\/flights-prices\/\u201d. In 2019 the homepage still opened with a MiG-29 coming straight at the camera and the line \u201cFly a Real Fighter Jet.\u201d The blog became Afterburner, MiGFlug\u2019s magazine, and moved to its own address in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1439\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/migflug-website-2019-wayback.jpg\" alt=\"The migflug.com homepage in 2019 with a MiG-29 head-on, archived by the Wayback Machine\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e7ee\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">migflug.com in 2019, as archived by the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The MiG-29: We Hope It Comes Back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of all the jets on those old pages, the one customers still ask about most is the MiG-29. We have not given up on it. We hope to fly the Fulcrum again one day, and we have seen some encouraging signals. When there is something concrete to announce, you will read it here first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Today: The MiG-21, Still Supersonic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One supersonic jet survives from that 2005 menu, and you can still fly it. The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/mig-21-launch\/\">MiG-21 supersonic flight in Florida<\/a> is a 40-minute flight over the Gulf of Mexico, where the jet can break the sound barrier over international waters. It includes aerobatics, a turn at the controls, ground school, all equipment and a supersonic certificate. On our MiG-21 page we put it simply: Concorde stopped flying in 2003, our MiG-29 flights in 2017, and since then this is likely the last chance to join the supersonic club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/mig-21-cockpit-passenger-supersonic-flight.jpg\" alt=\"A passenger in the turquoise rear cockpit of a MiG-21 on a supersonic flight\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A passenger in the rear cockpit of the MiG-21 on a supersonic flight over the Gulf of Mexico, in exactly the turquoise our Russian customers used to ask about. Photo: MiGFlug<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MiG-21 is the right jet to carry the torch. It first flew in the mid-1950s, more than 11,000 were built, making it the most-produced supersonic jet in history, and it served with around 60 air forces. Today it is also one of the very few ways left for a civilian to go supersonic at all. <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/mig-21-launch\/\">Find out more and book the MiG-21 flight here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Question Everybody Asked<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across all those years and all those jets, one question came up on almost every Russian trip: why is the cockpit that colour? The answer turned out to depend on the aircraft. The MiG-25 and MiG-31 were classic Soviet turquoise, the MiG-29 was grey, and the Su-27 was Sukhoi&rsquo;s own blue-grey. We have finally written it all down in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/mig-21-cockpit-color-turquoise-green\/\">Surgical Green at Mach 2: The MiG-21 Cockpit Mystery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Did MiGFlug offer MiG-25 flights?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. The oldest archived MiGFlug website, from February 2005, offered 30-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-25-foxbat\/\">MiG-25 Foxbat<\/a> flights from Zhukovsky near Moscow, plus an Edge of Space package with hotel nights and a visit to the Monino air force museum. According to MiGFlug\u2019s 2008 website, the MiG-25 passenger flights at Zhukovsky ended in January 2006.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did MiGFlug offer MiG-31 flights?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. In November 2008 MiGFlug offered <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-31-foxhound\/\">MiG-31E Foxhound<\/a> Edge of Space flights from the Sokol airfield at Nizhny Novgorod, where the MiG-31 is built. The flight lasted 25 to 30 minutes and climbed to roughly 22 to 23 kilometres at up to Mach 2.35, with the chance for the passenger to take the controls.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the MiG-29 Edge of Space flight?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The MiG-29 Edge of Space flight was MiGFlug\u2019s signature product at the Sokol airfield in Nizhny Novgorod in the 2010s. Customers flew in the two-seat <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-29-fulcrum\/\">MiG-29UB<\/a> to around 20 to 22 kilometres, high enough to see a black sky and the curvature of the Earth. In 2011 MiGFlug also offered 25-minute and 45-minute MiG-29 flights, the longer one including supersonic flight.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When did MiGFlug\u2019s MiG-29 flights end?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">MiGFlug\u2019s MiG-29 flights ended in 2017. The product pages stayed online for a while afterwards, marked \"currently not available\" with a waiting list. MiGFlug hopes to bring the MiG-29 back one day and has seen some encouraging signals.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Could you fly a Su-27 as a civilian?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes, in Russia. In 2005 MiGFlug offered 30-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-27-flanker\/\">Su-27 Flanker<\/a> flights, with a flight programme that included Pugachev\u2019s Cobra and the tail slide and the chance to fly the jet partly yourself.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Can I still fly a supersonic jet with MiGFlug?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/mig-21-launch\/\">MiG-21 supersonic flight in Florida<\/a> is a 40-minute flight over the Gulf of Mexico in which the jet can break the sound barrier over international waters, with aerobatics, a turn at the controls and a supersonic certificate.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Did MiGFlug offer MiG-25 flights?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Yes. The oldest archived MiGFlug website, from February 2005, offered 30-minute MiG-25 Foxbat flights from Zhukovsky near Moscow, plus an Edge of Space package with hotel nights and a visit to the Monino air force museum. 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The MiG-21 supersonic flight in Florida is a 40-minute flight over the Gulf of Mexico in which the jet can break the sound barrier over international waters, with aerobatics, a turn at the controls and a supersonic certificate.\"}}]}<\/script><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:28px\">Sources: Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshots of migflug.com from February 2005, November 2008, January 2009, July 2011, January 2017, January 2019 and November 2019; MiGFlug, MiG-21 supersonic flight page; MiGFlug Edge of Space flight infographic (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600\">Related Posts<\/p><p 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