Saturday, March 17 2018 16:08

ArmInfo. The aerobatic team "Strizhi" flew to Yerevan for the first time.

The aerobatic team flew to Yerevan for events timed to the Russian-Armenian military cooperation "Friendship-2018". Air aces performed with an indicative program of simple, complex and higher single, pair and group aerobatics consisting of six light fighters MiG-29 of the fourth generation. Weather favored, and "Strizhi" successfully showed the guests of the capital and Yerevan residents such elements of aerobatics as "Strela", "Pyramid", "Peleng" and "Star", "Bochka". After the spectacular dissolution of the group, the commander of "Swifts" Sergei Osyaikin showed a single aerobatics.

At the end of the demonstration, Osyaykin told reporters that the guests were shown as many as planned. "Of course, we have not shown much more, we are limited to certain frameworks, our task, which we plan and work out. Therefore, today we demonstrated exactly the program that we show recently in all aviation festivals and shows allowed us to fully work out the entire program, "said the colonel. At the same time he added that the interval between the planes in general is 1 meter, and the distance is 3 m, but there are those figures when there is no space between the planes, and the aircraft separates the distance in height - depreciation.

"We are glad that we had the opportunity to take part in the Friendship Day 2018 today so that the guests of the air base looked at the performance of the Strizhey and on the capabilities of our aircraft, and we hope that this will become a tradition, and this holiday will be of a long duration ", - the commander said.

Aerial aerobatic team "Strizhi" was formed on May 6, 1991 on the basis of the 234th Guards Proskurovsky Aviation Regiment of the best pilots near Moscow airbase Kubinka. It is a part of the N. Kozhedub Aeronautical Engineering Display Center. Performs group and single piloting on multi-purpose highly maneuverable MiG-29 fighters.