Fighter Flights, Pilots, Reconnaissance, Space, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
As you probably know the SR-71 Blackbird was the fastest plane in the world, at least when we do not take rocket planed into account (otherwise the winner would be the X-15). There is a funny story about the Blackbird – coming from “Sled Driver”...
Bomber aircrafts, F22 Raptor, F35, Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, Stealth Fighter Jets, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
Fighter Jets are very expensive to operate MiGFlug’s customers sometimes react surprised when they hear the costs, especially of the MiG-29 supersonic flight (which starts at EUR 13,500 for the 45min supersonic flight or 11,500 for the non-supersonic 25min...
Fighter Flights, Pilots, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
How it works: The Ejection Seat Fighter pilots can leave their aircraft in case of an emergency. But they only do that if that is the very last possibility. They always try to land. No one wants to pull the ejection seats, especially not at high speed. And here is...
Aircraft Carriers, F35, World Records Aviation
You think the most expensive Yacht – owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovichs – the “Eclipse” is expensive? With 70 crew members, two helipads and an own submarine, it is estimated at $450m up to $1.5 billion. Well yes, it is expensive,...
Pilots, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
The last Interview with Erich Hartmann Of all the fighter aces in history, the first name who usually comes to mind is the “Red Baron” and Erich “Bubi” Hartmann. Therefore those two are top in our best fighter pilots in history ranking. If you...
Aircraft Carriers, Bomber aircrafts, Experimental Aircraft, World Records Aviation
We all know that in the history of military aviation, a lot of interesting events and developments have been made. Our friend Marko Radovic from Belgrade selected 15 interesting facts and created this nice post for us: Thanks a lot for creating this nice post for us....
Fighter Jets, Naval, World Records Aviation
It had always been U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Katie Higgins’ dream to become a pilot, and follow in her family’s steps. This became reality in 2011, when she received her wings. But last weekend was probably the best day of her life, when she successfully...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, World Records Aviation
When these images cropped out on the internet a few months ago, some knew the photos were a photoshop masterpiece, and the rest were skeptical, or believed this ‘claim’. A note to acclaimed aviator, Skip Holm was in order to validate the images and provide...
Fighter Flights, Stealth Fighter Jets, World Records Aviation
Every fighter fan probably had this experience already – one gets to see a fighter jet in a museum, at an airshow or – the coolest way – during a fighter jet ride with MiGFlug. And once one is getting closer – it’s like *boah* how huuuge...
Experimental Aircraft, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
The world’s largest aircraft to date – The Antonov 225 Mriya; The Ukrainian word for ‘Dream’. This humongous aircraft was primarily built to carry the Soviet Space Shuttle (Buran). With six Ivchenko Progress D-18T turbofan engines, it can carry up to...
Bomber aircrafts, Experimental Aircraft, Fighter Jets, Reconnaissance, Stealth Fighter Jets, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
The Top Ten fastest planes in the World Before we start – here is a nice video showing you the 10 fastest planes in the world: There are very many aircraft that has exceeded the speed of Mach 2.0. Some of them are research aircraft, some are military and some...
Experimental Aircraft, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
There have been countless aircraft capable of flying faster than the speed of sound. Some have reached twice that, and a few as high as three times the speed of sound. But there is one rocket plane to rule them all. An aircraft that was introduced in 1959, flew so...
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