MIG-25 Foxbat - Edge Of Space Flight - 2004
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2006
- Your adventure begins when you fasten yourself into your own cockpit of the two-seater MiG -- 25 and you taxi onto the runway. You blast off at an amazing 238 mile per hour, and within minutes, you burst through the clouds and head for the heavens. As your highly-skilled pilot eases the enormous turbine engines into maximum power, you are miles above the earth and then you break through the sound barrier!
Now, higher than any other humans, except for the crew members of the International Space Station - who are a mere 217 miles above you -- your pilot shows you the true capabilities of the graceful beast that cradle you. You'll experience thrilling manoeuvres like barrel rolls and parabolas. When the afterburners are ignited, the aircraft is now travelling at Mach 2 and you're headed towards the stratosphere!
The Earth appears serene and unreal almost 10 miles below, and above you're surrounded by stars. No passenger jet could ever reach such heights. You have, "Slipped the sure bounds of earth and touched the face of God." You are at the edge of the universe!
Your trained and experienced pilot then puts the aircraft into a steep Mach 2.6 curve; you experience 2 to 4 G's of force, and before you know it you're almost 16 miles above the earth and you can see what Galileo only guessed... the curve of the Big Blue Marble is before you! During the winter months, between November and March, the MiG -- 25 is capable of reaching even greater heights... altitudes of 16 to 20 miles! Are you brave enough to dare your pilot to, "Go for it?"
We flew from the year 2000 up to 2006 on the Zuchowsky Airbase, nearby Moscow. Customers love it. This video is an edited video what we used as an advertisement at this time. The original tapes are in our safe.
This video was the first uploaded by us on UA-cam as the first UA-cam video, a long time ago!
Throughout my lifetime, I've been wanting to see the view when you "go over" from the blue sky to the darkness of space. This video is like a present to me. Thank you for this video!
UA-cam is turning 10! We uploaded the first video on UA-cam on August 15, 2006, showing the flight with a MIG-25 "Foxbat" of our founder to the edge of space, altitude was reached with more than 92,000 feet. Sorry, no HD version available, not state of the art in that time.
Meanwhile we have the biggest channel about space & aerospace adventures on UA-cam.
A big THANK YOU to our fans! We promise, more to come!
so beautiful. I love the blue sky , and the endless pitch-black space of dreams ..
I was one of the first to fly in the Mig 25
My name is Kostas Kavvathas, Journalist-Publisher of Greece's first aerospace magazine "Flight & Space (1973)
I flown the MIG-25 Fox first time in 2004, attended by a german TV team. Because of this we have a lot of cams accessable. I still remember after 10 years my first flight as it would been done yesterday. When confronted with the Fox, first thing you imagine its the size! Then the big engines in which you could play hide and seek. The thrust what was pushing me back in the ejection seat was awesome, and I still remember as the MACH meter decreased behind the 2,0. The feeling in the own cockpit infront of the pilots cockpit was like you flown alone. The view around was spectacular, especially as you could see the vapor of the airliners, some kilometers below us. I watched the altimeter increasing, the digits were in meters. As we crossed 20km, I had have my first "Overview Effect". I realized that Earth is in space! After crossing the 20km, my pilot moved the jet in a 30 degree angle on the right wing and started with more ascending in altitude. I was also busy with my cam in my hand, what I have to say disturbes me a lot, but I had the task to do most best shots what are available. It was a flight in beginning of April, and my pilot said: "You know what? We will try to get high as possible today, temperature conditions looking good. Are you with me?" Of course I answered in that way of lets do it, and we flown higher. After crossing 25km, I was realizing that me and my pilot were the highest flying humans on that day beside the crew onboard the International Space Station! My pilot Alexandre Pavlov explainded, that the size of the spiral what we are in to go up has a diameter of 10 kilometers! So, we went higher and higher. In my mind were the song of Van Halen "Wings" and I was overwhelmed by my feelings a little bit, sometimes it took me while to realize what I'm doing there. It was in parts so unreal, that I thought somebody should give me a slap, so that I will wake up out of a dream, but it was real! I was thinking about to open the cockpit and go out for flying by myself. Of course, if I would have done that in real, I wouldn't sit here and talking about this experience. As we crossed 27 kilometers Alexandre moved back the wings in horizontal position but said "A little bit more is possible", so we ended on an main altitude of the day at 28.194 meters (92,500 feet). I know that this is for most of people unreal and the discussions about that is still in the ongoing since the first videos were here released in 2006, as UA-cam was one year old! But the certificate is on the wall. But doesn't matter the certificate, I was personally there! We staid 2 minutes in that altitude, then descending. Alexandre moved the Fox on the left wing and started descending, and the view of Earth was blowing my mind away. It looked like the videos made of a cam out of the cockpit of the Space Shuttle! After we were back on 10.000 meters, Alexandre said "Its your jet", and I steered it by my self, but I was so overwhelmed by feelings, that I can't do it very well! This flight influenced my mind a lot. As I came back, I was another human, and it took me weeks to understand it. Between 2004 and 2006 I attended several customers of ours who did this then and all of them came back as another human. I still remember a lady who cried in the cockpit after be back in the parking position, first we thought something bad happened to her, but Alexandre (who flown the most of our customers) said: no, anything was good, but she need a while to understand what was happenening during the flight.". In February 2006 I did it again, without cams. Only for me. In June 2006 they stopped all the programs for civilians flying at Zuchowsky nearby Moscow, and that was a tragedy for all aviators! We flown afterwards at Sokol the MIG-31, but it wasn't the same. Thanks for all of those who made this programs possible in this time! And a regard here to all of you, who have had the chance to fly with the Fox.
As a journalist I have flown many mil a/c (Northrop F5B, Mirage 2000, A7H, F16 block 30 & 52+, Mirage 200-5 and others) but the Climb in the Fox was my greatest experience. Really out of this world, yes?
Do you know what is the price to fly now?
Costas Ianos
MIG-25 isn't possible. Flights with the MIG-29 are between 12.500 and 19.500, depending on program: www.space-affairs.com/index.php?wohin=mig29nn_p
Now that was a magnificent sight flying on the edge of space can't get any more magnificent than that
The MiG-25 has it all - Mach 3 speed, 4 Fox missiles, two engines, and FM radio with killer sub woofers
Vic the smartest of ALL. He left all of you PUPPETS and is now where everything is much better, faster and smells SO MUCH BETTER...YOU PUPPET COMMYS!!!!
So a "hey your alive" hug at the end.
I watched the MiG-25 take off from Zhukovsky in 2001. It was awesome, and went up like a missile. Amazing and LOUD, like an F-106.
Crikey, That's freakin' high!!! Thanx for Posting!
holy smokes, this is good. it took my breath away. nice summary.
Record second to none!
(raises glass in salute)
thanku this is all i ever wanted 2 see in my life awesome sight
This music is far better imo. Five stars and sharing the vid over email.
..." I fell the need....the need of MiG, high altitude and speed..." ;)
MiG-25 - plane of dream
FOXBAT!!!! great video..
That is a good use of a plane. Better than war! :)
Pure paradise! U are one lucky guy!
WOW!! so high you can almost see the curve of the earth.
amazing video. :)
every country looks so reachable in about 5 mins from there above.
Utterly Amazing...
Beautiful!!!
doesnt look like much of a fighter,perhaps a bomber yes. Awesome video,I'll never get too see that any other way.Thanks so much.
Hats off. That looks awesome!!
That's the programme that got me watching this video. It's so cool. I'd love to see the earth a from that height!!!
Great Machine! the MiG is truly a epic machinery! Ruski power i gues!
wow! so high you actually start to see the curve of the earth
Great vid, thanks!!!!
I could trall through the posts to find the FL the Mig had reached...but it looked close to the FL700 the U2 flies at. Saw a prog on that the other day and the crew wear spacesuits. The Russians...fur lined jackets! They must really trust their pressurised cockpits! Great vid :)
Amazing to think a person can fly high enough to see stars during the day... only if we could ALL do that AND continue into space :)
the song is called "dreams" taken off van halens "5150" album from 1986 :-)
Thanks for this video.
badass machine
AWESOME bass guitar
Sweet! Nice video.
thank you, sir ;)
Beautiful video, good job.
Thank You : )
Awesome experience
higher and higher by van halen... excellent choice in music my friend ;)
Wow that is too freakin Sweet!! lol Gret Vid I loved it Faved it 5 stars!!
Of course they do. Even the Blackbird had a pressurized cockpit. The crew still wore pressure suits but only incase of a bailout or loss of pressure.
Absolutely Stunning. I bet the view kicked so much ass
It has been done actually. Must be an amazing experience...
it kinda boggles my mind when I think that the altitude being flow there is about half the thinkness of the Earths crust. Its just when you look at the slight curvature of the horizon and contemplate the scale of the whole thing it makes your head feel a bit fuzzy inside. Awesome stuff.
thats amazing!
That was neat.
Thats sooooooooo cool!!!
The thickness of the atmosphere, and the beginning of space, is a function of latitude and temperature. It is different at different locations.
It's unfortunate that some people cannot simply make a comment on how cool it is that a MIG approached space. The standard online these days (although I too am not a fan of it) is to abbreviate certain words. Yes there are people in the world who either have a problem spelling or just choose to express themselves as they do here. It is also unfortunate that others are so insecure that they have to tear down someone about their grammar to make themselves feel better.
"Also the engines were different and it was more aerodynamic.The Sr-71's engines were i believe turbojets and funcitoned better at higher speeds, but fighter engines are turbofans. Thank You ShadowXIX. I read in one of my books, and they gave a chart saying that the speed was limited by the airframe, because of the temperatures it might reach. Although im not a materials expert im not sure if that is the case. I wish I could scan in the images of the charts. "
so beautiful...
Amazing....
ok that clears things up a bit
amazing
Nice video
Oh brother! If I ever get rich, I'll sure go for this! Betting the lottery tomorrow!!! =P
wow thats would be a awsome experience
Oh you lucky guy I envy you!!!
this is amazing video....
nice flight
@edawg792 They only look similar, really. They took the general layout and structure of the MiG-25, and stretched it to hold more fuel and a second cockpit for the RO (behind the pilot, rather than taking the place of the radar as you see here). They strengthened the wings and fuselage to allow supersonic flight at low altitudes, and revised the frame to allow the use of more nickel-steel, titanium, and aluminum so the structure used less weight, and added more fuel, and low-bypass turbofans.
@Sealy57 Depends in what manner. In maintaining a certain height over a fixed track, the SR-71 is the official altitude holder in horizontal flight with 85,068 feet.
In terms of absolute altitude though, where you climb until you stall, the MiG-25 has reached an incredible 123,523 feet.
They never attempted anything similar with the SR-71. And in all honesty, you probably wouldn't want to fly an SR-71 to the point of stalling. It was a very valuable and more fragile aircraft.
no words just awesome,
i would go, but no need to barrel roll for me :p
Amazing *_*
Foxbat engines look so massive.
tks =) !!!
WOW!!
I was 6 years old when this video uploaded 😂
Hey, welcome to our channel. You needed only 14 years to find the video, excellent! ;)
@@Space-Affairs Thanks XD
dreams fit blue angels more =D
Faboulous :D
LUCKY MAN!!!!!!!!
Thats so sick.
The mig 25 is pretty old. But it was actually clocked once at mach 3.2 (also blew its engines). The Sr-71's top speed is actually mach 3.2, not 3.6. But it can sustain it's speed unlike the Foxbat.
Actually they had extreme trouble just getting the drone to detach safely.
HOWEVER. The Phoenix missile carried by the F-14 was originally developed for the YF-12 which was the ~Interceptor model~ of the SR-71's A-12 predecessor. You can identify it by the cone nose (for combat radar) and ventral fins.
So yes, there was an SR-71 type aircraft with the same capabilities that could launch an (albeit specially designed) air-to-air missile.
@TheHeenow The MIG-25 was actually a very good fighter for its period
That pilot looks like he got "high" before take-off. LOL! Look at his eyes!
Amazing views I want to go up.
That must be a pretty cool experience.
BTW, that song is not Dreams by Van Halen.
Most of all that music reminds me of Ace Combat :P
Just like any country. Each uses it's own design
@b0bd0le101 absolutely! though their technology is not as "sophisticated" they have got some amazing achievements under their belts. I have always admired anything they have put in the air! God Bless always.
Yes indeed. It set an altitude record for an unbelievable 123 thousnd feet above sea level. Im only a kid lol, but Id take a ride if one if theyd let me
The MiG-25/MiG-31 is the fastest combat aircraft made. I'd love to have enough cash to pay for a ride in that two seater!
@SEL9000 You missed the point. Where is there a shot of the altimeter?
The design concept of both jets are similar, stealth technology is similar too. The F-35 is the sister plane to the F-22. So they do have some stuff in common.
whats the name of the music?
btw very nice view from up theyre ;)
:P nice
Words can't even express how jealous I am of you.
It must be cool to fly high enough, that you can no longer see blue sky above you.
cool wish i was on that plane...
That was fucking awesome!
Man...wish knew a pilot!
they add a oxidizer (oxygen) to the airstream. Which in turn lets it reach such high altitudes.
off off and away!!!
@SEL9000 The Migs 25 and 31 are so similar. What is the main difference between the two?
I'm looking at the chart call "Limit Speed and Altitude Envelope". SR-71A-1 POH Fig. 5.3
@VIKINGODIN
also, there was an accident during one of the flight with tourist when one fo the engines broke down and stopped. After that reveled that the aircraft is out of service and all that tourists-buisness isn`t really leagal. Fothermore, that MiG-25 is the flying test laboratory (test-bed) so it runs out of life cycle and service muc before its written in official papers -- because of the complicated test-flights in 80`s and early 90`s. sad but true.
@SEL9000 what model is the mig only a few could break the 70000 feet mark
THIS WAS U? wow how was it this is one of the most powerful aircraft of its size