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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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RobertS wrote:I am working on a picture-book, stuffed with never before seen operational photos of Soviet & WP AFs.
Hi Robert,

Great to see you are doing something with your collectionCan you put me on your list, as I would love to buy your book if it will be filled with these kind of photos. Please keep me informed !

Good luck, and thanks for sharing your shots.

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Iwan Bogels wrote:Please keep me informed !
OK.
I will search for you some MiG-25 phots in my archive for tomorrow.....
Cheers,
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Hungarian Air-Force L-410UVP-E "923" at Tököl AB 1988

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These photos are not so unique, but the event is one of the "firsts"

1979 SSSR Krasnodar AB, first flight of an Indian pilot with MiG-25

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Histo ... kumar.html
" the Soviets offered flight evaluation of the Mig-25. at the Krasnodar air base. Air Mshl Katre formed a team consisting of AVM Wollen, Gp Capt Ramu and Wg Cdr Madhav Rao to carry out the evaluation. The team flew down to Krasnodar and Gp Capt Ramu flew two sorties in a Mig-25 U two seat trainer version. He thus became the first IAF plot to fly this legendary aircraft. "

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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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Keep them coming Robert! :yourock:
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MiG-23M 787.iap. Finow, GDR

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Robert,

how's your picturebook progressing? Seeing the pictures you've already posted I can''t wait till its finished!

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Basjan wrote:how's your picturebook progressing? Seeing the pictures you've already posted I can''t wait till its finished!
Basjan,
I am working hard on the book.
The publishers are talking about the financial-crisis always.... :evil:
But I think, if a customer have money for one mil-av-book only, he will leave the F-14 -15 -16 etc...books on the shelfs of the bookstores, and will buy the book which is stuffed with old "red-star phots"...... :wink:
Currently the planned publishing-date is October.

...a rare in-air shot of a Su-7BMK, 305.apib. Postavi AB 1984...
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Hungarian Air-Force - Magyar Légierő - Mi-8T "230" in September 1977 at Szolnok

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It was the short-lived three-tone camo for HuAF Mi-8s.

Few more old pics:
http://repulomuzeum.hu/ARCHFOTO/Mi-8.htm
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1974 CCCP...navigators view from the Il-14

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Bulgarian Air Force Mi 1 in April 1972.

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Dick Lohuis wrote:Bulgarian Air Force Mi 1 in April 1972.
Thanks Dick,
WP Mi-1 photos are very rare, especionally in colour.

Here are a lot of interesting Cold-War Era photos of the Bulgarian AF:
http://www.airgroup2000.com/forum/viewt ... &start=165" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://airgroup2000.com/gallery/albums/ ... 2/40-2.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://airgroup2000.com/gallery/albums/ ... /c%7E1.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://airgroup2000.com/gallery/albums/ ... lane-2.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bulgarian AF Mi-2 - 1982

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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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Few photos from Open-Days in the Sovietunion in the late 70s.
(sorry, the quality.....)
One of the few occasions, when the photographing was not prohibited - usually, the Russians displayed a few planes only.
It is a surprise for me - why we can not see same pics in the reports from the intell. observation groups from the 70s.

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Klasse Bilder :respect:
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Polish Air Force IL 18 at Heathrow in March 1967.

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Re: Warsaw Pact photos - pre 1990 only

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Did you seen ever photos of intercepted Soviet AF or NVA-LSK fighters - MiGs, Sukhois - over the North-Sea or Baltic ?
Must to have a lot of such photos at the pilots of the USAFE, Luftwaffe, Danish & Dutch airforces....
Or pics took from ships there ?

Why they did not publish photos of intercepted fighters ?
Usually Tu-16, Tu-95, Myasischev only....

I seen very few photos like this in the Western publications:
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http://bellabs.ru/Fotab/HostileW/MiG-23vsP-3_01.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Few pics from the other side, NATO fighters photographed by the Russians:
http://forums.airforce.ru/showthread.php?t=1096" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://photofile.name/users/morlet.foto ... 140113402/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.odrap.ru/vvs-usa.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Collection of intercepted Soviet AF planes:
http://bellabs.ru/Fotab/HostileW.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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