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n.p.quist wrote:http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110802/165511178.html
According to http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=75592 elsewhere on this forum:The visitors will also enjoy performances of "Russian Knights", "Strizhi", "Russian Falcons," "Rus," and "Baltic Bees" aerobatic teams.
http://aerobaticteams.net/news/russian- ... anded.htmlThe Russian Air Force aerobatic display teams Russian Knights and Swifts (Strizhi) will be disbanded after MAKS 2011 Airshow. The teams will fly for the last time during MAKS Air Show from August 16 to 21.
Can you provide a link to this messageboard? It would certainly help clearing up any remaining confusion.go to message board of Russian Knights
Russian Knights, Swifts aerobatic teams to stay
Jun 10, 2011 14:20 Moscow Time
The Voice of Russia radio website
Russian Knights, Swifts aerobatic teams to stay
Jun 10, 2011 14:20 Moscow Time
The Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdiukov has disproved news reports that the Russian Knights and Swifts elite aerobatic teams will be disbanded and merged into one.
“The news media are reporting on something I’ve never known about”, the Defence Minister said during a show of military and special-purpose vehicles at Bronnitsy, near Moscow, earlier today.
The Russian Knights and Swifts are based at the Kubinka airfield, 60 kilometers away from Moscow. The pilots of the teams were the first in the Soviet Union to master solo and team jet fighter aerobatics. They flew over Moscow in flight formation for the first time on May 1st 1946.
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