BEYOND THE G-FORCES
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier. (from the movie "The Right Stuff" - 1983)
Now, you can have the possibility to fly into this two-seater jet and you can experience, what does it mean to fly behind the sound-barrier or behind Mach 2!!! In the two-seater machine, you sit in the cockpit behind your pilot. Your pilot is one of the most experienced test-pilots of the Russian Airforce and your adventure will be held from the Russian base of SOKOL at Nizhniy Novgorod, 450 km in east direction of Moscow.
You climb into your machine and after that, you will be advised into all cockpit-instruments, as also in your previously aimed G-Flight-Suit, that are interconnected with the computer of the jet. After the security-instructions, and after your pilot is sure about that you know anything what you have to know, there is no way to stop your
aerospace adventure of your lifetime! On the runway, the pilot switches on the afterburner, and you are pressed into the seat before the machine leaves the base by barely 6 seconds and chased into heaven! Your pilot will show you acrobatic manoeuvres and it could occur that you will feel g-forces beyond 7G. These g-forces effect your body for seconds, and according to the flight-weather, your pilot flies also a parabola where you become weightless.
The flight in a MIG-29 is a very selective flight that demands some from you. Through its design possesses, the MIG-29 flight-qualities are partially beyond western competition with its mobility. So, the MiG-29 can stand short-term on its own thrust-ray - important for the so-called cobra-manoeuvre (depends also on the kind of the jet engine). The wing-construction with wide wing-root brings a large part of the buoyancy through the torso-base what improves the slow-flight-qualities.
The big tabs, that cover the ventilation shafts of the engines at the ground, are typical of the MiG-29 to avoid about a penetration of foreign-bodies. With the start, the engines suck in air over commutator bar-shafts on the torso-upper side. The air-brake and a brake-parachute are at the stern. The machine possesses a 16-bit-onboard-computer, a front-disk-projector (HUD) plus a monitor, a shelf-own mistake-recognition (Aekran) and two sensor-systems. With the radar, air-goals (reach 70 km) can be grasped and with the FLIR / laser-telemeter (reach 7 km, laser-class 3 in Germany) the infrared-goals. Also a helmet-visor-installation, that allows the pilot to envisage a goal by means of head-movement, is remarkably.
The target -search-heads of the rockets then get the target-parameters automatically. Exactly this appliance makes the MIG-29 superior for the very agile F-16 in the air-close combat. The MIG 29 was developed in the 70ties of the last century in order to offer the American F-15 "Eagle" a counter pole. Even the German armed forces had after the takeover of the Airforce of the Army of the National People of the GDR some MIG-29 in continuance, now the jet will use partially as well as the new Eurofighter and will be exchanged after a time.
You can fly with it now! An adventure, which will call on your body and your spirit very much! After that, you will say: "I was flying a MIG-29!"
Technical Datas MIG-29 'Fulcrum'
Country: Soviet Union / Russia
Function: Attack fighter, Multi-role fighter, all weather jet-fighter
First manufractured: 1977
In service since: 1979
Crew: 1 (Reconnaissance and Traîner version: 2)
Engine: 2x Sarkisov RD-33 Turbofans with afterburner, 18.300 lb thrust each
Speed: 2.455 km/h (Mach 2.5)
Max. ceiling: 17.500 m
Range: 2.100 km
Length: 17.32 m
Height: 4.73 m
Wing span: 11.36 m