1/48 Eduard F6F-3 - Inside the box - ua-cam.com/video/DTvSMAHZTkw/v-deo.html Full video build - 1/72 Revell Spitfire Mk Vb ua-cam.com/video/EKGd7wmsa_M/v-deo.html
The Mig21 is a timeless aircraft. She never gets old. It's been 69 years in 2024 since she first flew. Still flying high in many airforces around the world. There will never be another fighter like you, Mig21 :)
Very cool old school fighter from the ‘muscle’ jet era. I remember when I was a kid you could pick up mig 17s for around 25k in the areotrader magazine. Them days are long long gone!
The MIG-21 was and still is a great fighter/interceptor jet that is credited with the downing of dozens of F-4s and F-105s in Vietnam, resulting in the introduction of TOP GUN training in order to even the playing field. Until the tactics of the USAF and USN changed and improved, it was ruling the skies. However, the bottom line is always a well trained pilot and proof to that is all the kills instructors flying the F-5s have, over students flying the much better F-16s.
@@ripmax333 might be. I flown glider few times and almost shit my pants first time with all the corrections I had to make. FBW systems are easy peasy compared to older steering. Those pilots have amazing skills
That button is called the 'trim hat'. It is used for setting the desired default pitch angle of the aircraft when the control stick is in the neutral position.
What model of MiG-21 is this? Cockpit instruments look quite different (and busier) than a legacy 21's. Also curious if these 21s have hydraulic brakes over the legacy pneumatic ones
@@deagle666 You cant deny history dude. Thuds and Phantoms are falling from the sky during the vietnam war. Credit that to the hardworking Vietnamese Pilots and their MiG-21's and MiG-17's
Because russians are idiots and take everything too seriously. Well, can't blame them, Russia is literally third world country after the communist regime took place in 1917
@@freetrialhaha Sorry to make you cry…the F-4 shot down MIG-21’s at about a four to one kill ratio in Vietnam. The Israelis, using knowledge gained in Vietnam made an even greater meal of the MIG-21.
@@patrickjennings7362 considering f4 price of 16 million an mig21 of 1 million i think that still shows mig21 bossed f4 easily.. in real war with 1 billion USD financing f4 planes and 1 billion USD financing mig21 ..easy win for mig21.. wtf u talking about f4 trashing mig21)) like germans prancing around about tiger kills vs t34.. yeah, you kinda got wiped out boy
@@keepwalking6041 The facts are simple. Now, keep in mind that I am not claiming the F-4 was a better “dog fighter,l it was ‘t, but it was a better killer. Put simply. Phantoms shot down more -21’s than the other way around. As for the cost? Who cares? A cheap fighter flown by a good pilot who gets shot down equals a loser. As for tanks…again who cares? We aren’t talking about tanks and if we were we’d be talking about how badly Russia’s best is getting clobbered on the modern battlefield.
The west's best tanks would get clobbered just as bad on a modern battlefield, but they mostly had to fight sandpeople, who still destroyed a lot of them
@@emiver7892 That is very disturbing and could lead a less trained pilot to believe, he/she flies wings leveled. Also: What is the purpose of a horizon which doesn't reflect the horizon. May be it is correct but I find it misleading.
@@s.o.2279 It is misleading, and is responsible for at least one civilian air transport category crash by a Russian trained pilot trying to interpret the western ADI display. Such things need to be standardized.
@@briggsquantum Yes exactly. Our ADF indicator aircraft symbol is fixed as well because these symbols should always reflect the aircraft structure/pilot's seating position and what moves is either the compass rose (ADF RMI) or the horizon (ADI).
I was thinking the same before. Then I got the chance to sit in the cockpit - when I looked straight through the gunsight, everything around looked like some sort of `fog`. Not perfect, but not so bad for an old interceptor.
Yes, what they are all saying. The Soviets believed perhaps correctly that for a long endurance flight, turquoise reduced the eye strain of the pilots shifting their focus between the interior instruments, to the ground, and to the sky.
Этот цвет такой же как в кабине Б-29. Его копировали в 40-х годах в СССР, после войны. При освещении красным светом он становится чёрным - видны только показания приборов. Используется до сих пор.
Most dont know these are 2 different generations soviet being older and still Robin Olds told all his pilots if you have that mig above you go home you will lose and come back to fight another day...F-4 is impressive til it got close and in the early years got handed due to lack of guns
Remember.. there were like 2 dozen Mig-21s against _hundreds_ of Phantoms. 1 vs 1.. splash Phantoms over and over again. Remember.. this plane was the reason for the Fighter Mafia and Top Gun.. and when you look at the planes they came out with to beat it.. they all were either small tailed deltas or had leading edge root extensions to creat that awesome high alpha performance.
@@Leon-bc8hm if a MiG is above it means he's already got your 6. At high altitudes it is more manueverable and outdive the phantom pegging hits while evading any return fire. So again if you saw one above call it a day. Olds made it his mission to be above the bandits and only toe to toe when conditions favored it. As a result he helped even the score. So in short yes if MiG is above then most likely phantom will crash
@@makskk6spm275 what? When did I say that Russian aircrafts are the best in the world? I just said that this Soviet jet from cold war era looks cool...
@@4pelokananasov992 mig 21 looks okay. maybe for its time looked good. in fact, aircraft had tons of technical problems that soviet engineers were unable to solve, and one of them - the jet engine could just stop working during aggressive maneuvers when dodging the rocket for example. very inconvenient for landing and taking off because of the required high speed. etc.
1/48 Eduard F6F-3 - Inside the box -
ua-cam.com/video/DTvSMAHZTkw/v-deo.html
Full video build - 1/72 Revell Spitfire Mk Vb
ua-cam.com/video/EKGd7wmsa_M/v-deo.html
The Mig21 is a timeless aircraft. She never gets old. It's been 69 years in 2024 since she first flew. Still flying high in many airforces around the world. There will never be another fighter like you, Mig21 :)
Pretty amazing camera angle. Never saw this kind of view before.
Love the color inside cockpit. It makes all instruments stand out in contrast, very easy to read
the magic of mig's green
Very cool old school fighter from the ‘muscle’ jet era. I remember when I was a kid you could pick up mig 17s for around 25k in the areotrader magazine. Them days are long long gone!
Wow, you can almost see out the front!!!
Now that's a cockpit with some damn character!!
The new DCS Graphics are looking mighty good
The MIG-21 was and still is a great fighter/interceptor jet that is credited with the downing of dozens of F-4s and F-105s in Vietnam, resulting in the introduction of TOP GUN training in order to even the playing field. Until the tactics of the USAF and USN changed and improved, it was ruling the skies. However, the bottom line is always a well trained pilot and proof to that is all the kills instructors flying the F-5s have, over students flying the much better F-16s.
Not dozens, hundreds. And as you pointed out, training alone didn't improve the odd much. USAF had to change its entire doctrine and arsenal.
I superbly love the Russian planes cockpit color!
me too, at first i was like yuck, but now, black is the yuck, ..this blueish turquise.. awesome
@@keepwalking6041 so do I!
Beautiful. Nice to see the trim on the stick, he was going fast and needed to trim down
That attitude indicator would take some time getting used to! I just got fixated on that and it drove me nuts!
Antique technology, it just need the mini fan on the dashboard to complete the picture.
The Rainey Scene hit me
Wow the amount of corrections pilot is making on a stick is insane. Completely different ball game to FBW planes
could also be due to a lot of wear and tear on the control surface hinges, pushrods, pulleys, actuators etc.
It's a rocket with a seat, not a plane
@@ripmax333 might be. I flown glider few times and almost shit my pants first time with all the corrections I had to make. FBW systems are easy peasy compared to older steering. Those pilots have amazing skills
dude was cookin' ... gettin near mach 1 at the end
Is that the "bug-like" helmet?
Beautiful.
what is the function of the middle button of the stick?
trim?
That button is called the 'trim hat'. It is used for setting the desired default pitch angle of the aircraft when the control stick is in the neutral position.
@@dosgamer74 well, on Cessna or Airbus we adjust trim angle by adjust the wheel :)
What model of MiG-21 is this? Cockpit instruments look quite different (and busier) than a legacy 21's. Also curious if these 21s have hydraulic brakes over the legacy pneumatic ones
Bis
MiG-21UMD, double seater without radar, pneumatic wheel brakes.
@@aresmilitaryaviation6254 I see, thanks for the reply
I am pretty sure this is a romanian MIG 21 Lancer. But of course I could be wrong!
Sembra una macchina molto sensibile : piccoli spostamenti della cloche ...
CAN THIS MIG 21 FLY AT NIGHT
Finally a video that convinced me that jetfighter pilot is a dangerous job
interesting to see you pull some real alpha pulling out of that loop, 25+ degrees, slightly hairy.
That’s the whole point of a tailed delta.
The F-16 is tantamount to the same thing but it adds leading edge devices and extensions.
MIG-21 don't block the forward visibility with dozens of gauges challenge- IMPOSSIBLE
Чего там разглядывать? Нажал пуск - и домой.
Шикарная графика
В чём выражается графическая составляющая? На самолёте никогда не летал?
Сбил тебя наш летчик Ли Си Цин (с)
I just loved the video. Two thumbs up. MiG-21 Absolute Class Aircraft !!! The Thud and Phantom killer over the skies of Vietnam.
Phantom killer: MiGs would get shot down so much the phantom ran out of missiles, and then the tables turn!
Rusko smeće 👎🇭🇷🇺🇦
Hahaha… in your dreams
@@deagle666 You cant deny history dude. Thuds and Phantoms are falling from the sky during the vietnam war. Credit that to the hardworking Vietnamese Pilots and their MiG-21's and MiG-17's
@@deagle666 u tvojoj bolesnoj glavi.
So many videos how Soviet military is used for joy by foreign people and none of those from Russian people.
Because russians are idiots and take everything too seriously. Well, can't blame them, Russia is literally third world country after the communist regime took place in 1917
@@skflwphgaawfas7402 I guess that's why they've destroyed NATO equipment in Ukraine with one hand tied behind its back.
@@bobjones2460Even a monkey shooting a missile can hit some tanks every few tries
@@rubenlopez3364 A monkey shooting a missile can hit some tanks. But NATO soldiers can't. They are fleeing from the frontline every day.
Cos, Russians don't use MiG-21 anymore. If u want to see Russians flying, go search for MiG-29 or Flankers.
the artificial horizon looks strange.
Russian artificial horizon works the opposite way, on a western aircraft the ball would roll to show bank angle.
I always found those so weird. Oddly, I adjust fairly quickly, but there's still an instant where I'm like, "This thing is brok-- oh."
Compro 900.000.000 unidades para a força aérea brasileira
Lo estudie año 83
mig-23 ub
Its sounding as a gas stove operating in high flames.
Where’s the part where an F-4 blasts it out of the sky? 😂 Just kidding, great video of fun flying!
other way around 🤤
@@freetrialhaha Sorry to make you cry…the F-4 shot down MIG-21’s at about a four to one kill ratio in Vietnam. The Israelis, using knowledge gained in Vietnam made an even greater meal of the MIG-21.
@@patrickjennings7362 considering f4 price of 16 million an mig21 of 1 million i think that still shows mig21 bossed f4 easily.. in real war with 1 billion USD financing f4 planes and 1 billion USD financing mig21 ..easy win for mig21.. wtf u talking about f4 trashing mig21)) like germans prancing around about tiger kills vs t34.. yeah, you kinda got wiped out boy
@@keepwalking6041 The facts are simple. Now, keep in mind that I am not claiming the F-4 was a better “dog fighter,l it was ‘t, but it was a better killer. Put simply. Phantoms shot down more -21’s than the other way around. As for the cost? Who cares? A cheap fighter flown by a good pilot who gets shot down equals a loser. As for tanks…again who cares? We aren’t talking about tanks and if we were we’d be talking about how badly Russia’s best is getting clobbered on the modern battlefield.
The west's best tanks would get clobbered just as bad on a modern battlefield, but they mostly had to fight sandpeople, who still destroyed a lot of them
ミグって死角が多い気がする😢
The ADI is inop. It only shows pitch but no roll deflection.
It works well, but differently. The airplane symbol moves relative to the "fixed" horizon bar.
@@emiver7892 That is very disturbing and could lead a less trained pilot to believe, he/she flies wings leveled. Also: What is the purpose of a horizon which doesn't reflect the horizon. May be it is correct but I find it misleading.
@@s.o.2279 It is misleading, and is responsible for at least one civilian air transport category crash by a Russian trained pilot trying to interpret the western ADI display. Such things need to be standardized.
@@briggsquantum Yes, it was. Aeroflot Flight 821 (Boeing 737). But it's just a matter of training, not how the artificial horizon works, I think.
@@briggsquantum Yes exactly. Our ADF indicator aircraft symbol is fixed as well because these symbols should always reflect the aircraft structure/pilot's seating position and what moves is either the compass rose (ADF RMI) or the horizon (ADI).
Mig-21UMD🇭🇷
Balalaika
Pilot is able to see left, right, up but not straight???😂
I was thinking the same before. Then I got the chance to sit in the cockpit - when I looked straight through the gunsight, everything around looked like some sort of `fog`. Not perfect, but not so bad for an old interceptor.
Anyone know why all Russian planes have that awful turquoise color for their cockpits?
Some russian research suggested that this color has positive effects on the pilots stress curve.
What that guy said. It all goes back to the Soviet era
Yes, what they are all saying. The Soviets believed perhaps correctly that for a long endurance flight, turquoise reduced the eye strain of the pilots shifting their focus between the interior instruments, to the ground, and to the sky.
Этот цвет такой же как в кабине Б-29. Его копировали в 40-х годах в СССР, после войны. При освещении красным светом он становится чёрным - видны только показания приборов. Используется до сих пор.
It’s the negative colour of your retina. Thus you don’t get the shadowing if you look one direction for too long.
Running for his life from a F4 Phantom.
Most dont know these are 2 different generations soviet being older and still Robin Olds told all his pilots if you have that mig above you go home you will lose and come back to fight another day...F-4 is impressive til it got close and in the early years got handed due to lack of guns
Remember.. there were like 2 dozen Mig-21s against _hundreds_ of Phantoms.
1 vs 1.. splash Phantoms over and over again.
Remember.. this plane was the reason for the Fighter Mafia and Top Gun.. and when you look at the planes they came out with to beat it.. they all were either small tailed deltas or had leading edge root extensions to creat that awesome high alpha performance.
How? That F4 just crashed after it got bounced.
@@Leon-bc8hm if a MiG is above it means he's already got your 6. At high altitudes it is more manueverable and outdive the phantom pegging hits while evading any return fire. So again if you saw one above call it a day. Olds made it his mission to be above the bandits and only toe to toe when conditions favored it. As a result he helped even the score. So in short yes if MiG is above then most likely phantom will crash
Nearly 600 Phantoms were detroyed in combat over Vietnam. Only 60-65 MiG-21 were destroyed in total. MiG-21 had a >10:1 kill ration against F4.
Widow maker!!!...... (Of its own pilots, not the enemy. In case you're wondering 😂😂😂)
False. The widow maker was the F-104 Starfighter. Check your sources.
МиГ 21 один из самых безопасных истребителей, зачем ты пишешь ерунду?
Widow maker was an American one
soviet junk
1st. That's a supersonic fighter jet that you can own. Isn't that awesome by itself?
2nd. It looks kinda neat.
3rd. Yeah, you're right. Soviet junk
@@makskk6spm275 what? When did I say that Russian aircrafts are the best in the world? I just said that this Soviet jet from cold war era looks cool...
@@4pelokananasov992 sorry. i sent you the wrong comment. it wasn't for you
@@4pelokananasov992 mig 21 looks okay. maybe for its time looked good. in fact, aircraft had tons of technical problems that soviet engineers were unable to solve, and one of them - the jet engine could just stop working during aggressive maneuvers when dodging the rocket for example. very inconvenient for landing and taking off because of the required high speed. etc.
@@makskk6spm275сам лично проверял?
Romanian air force?
Croatian, 2 seater.
Romanians were using the LanceR version, with a thoroughly modernized cockpit. The last Romanian Mig-21s were taken out of service in July 2023.
У 21 очень высокая посадочная скороть .. не удобно гдиссаду строить в полосу точного приземления