MiG-21 walkaround and cockpit tour
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2021
- MiG-21 revealed in more detail than ever. This is video number 2 about the MiG-21.
Corrections to the video:
1) The nose wheel does not have hydraulic steering. It rotates freely.
2) What I call a HUD is a gunsight.
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Capt . Have you flown this bird ? You are just too good in the technical specific . This was the first aircraft I flew as a combat pilot in 1988 . Old memories.
Wow! Thanks! No, I haven't flown any jets at all. But an aircraft is an aircraft, and I like to find information.
Sorry but what did you fly at the time ?
@@alinili5569 the mig 21
At that time I was an airframe fitter with you in 30 sqn. It's engineering is also copybook. Very simple to learn and very efficient to function.
@@p.s.kaushik7602 yes old memories of great days 🙏👌👍
Both episodes were excellent.
This classic aircraft has always fascinated me.
Thanks tons.
Part one and two of this series were absolutely fascinating. Such attention to detail. Describing the cockpit layout as chaotic is very appropriate. I thoroughly enjoyed both videos. Thank you.
Anyone who could fly a plane like this is a absolute badass. The balls to climb aboard this thing and get shot at is mind boggling.
Mig 21 was a legend in its era
The best review and familiarization I have ever seen of this amazing aircraft. Thank you
This is an outstanding video, sir! So impressed! Graphics, audio/sounds, narration-all marvelous. 🇺🇸💛🇳🇴
Finally! Couldn’t wait for the 2nd part :-) excellent series, Magnar!
A comprehensive and most useful look at an icon of the Cold War. Thanks for posting.
This upgraded version is even better than the previous one :-)
You have pretty bold promise in the title to "reveal more MiG-21 details than ever", but this video stands behind those words.
I'm proud to be able ta assist You on this project. It is nice to see how well You used my clips.
having flown all versions of this aircraft i am glad to watch this video. some details are wrong but never mind that.
Which one do u like the most?
Excellent video, Captain. Hard to believe you’ve never flown one given the amount of fascinating details you presented. Eagerly looking forward to more videos of this caliber from you.
You have done a wonderful job with parts 1 & 2 of the MiG-21! Really outstanding. Thank you!
Many thanks!
Really enjoyed this and Part 1 as well. The Chinese variants deserve a video as well. The later versions had a new wing design that helped to lower the landing speed, as well as having a larger wing area... well at least it looks like it has a larger wing...
Props to the pilot who landed the plane on the mall. Very skilled! o7
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Indeed a very useful video for any aviation enthusiast. Had quite a few doubts, which were clarified after watching this video. Thanks a ton! Looking forward for other videos of yours.
Excellent content - part 1 and 2. I’ve never seen details like this anywhere else.
First time seeing all instruments explained, thanks for sharing. An impressive plane.
Very informative , great illustrations, just a great unique video on the Mig
I believe that the original soviet attitude indicator (not the one that was fitted in this aircraft), that has a horizontally fixed artificial horizon (it only goes up and down to show pitch attitude), and a small figured airplane that banks left and right, is more intuitive for the pilot, because pitch and bank are completely separated. I really love those needle mechanical instruments, thanks for the video.
Very nice 2 part video of the MiG-21! 😎
Very informative and Excellent work Magnar. Love Flying Mig-21 in DCS!
Thank you for both part 1 and 2 👍
Very nice and detailed descrption of Mig 21 in simple language.
Excellent tour. Thank you.
I swear I can fly this just after watching your excellent informative video.
Amazing data and, mostly, amazing work on this video! Greetings from Argentina!
The information is really good and full of details about this legendary fighter,,, educative in real sense,,, expecting similar videos of other aircrafts
He is unrealistically generous in his comparison of climb rates with the F-16 which is completely incorrect. The MiG-21 does not have a better than 1:1 Thrust to Weight ratio like the F-16 and can not accelerate in a vertical climb as a result…
@@CH-pv2rz With the emergency afterburner mode activated a mig21 can pass 1:1. Only just goes below 1:1 when you are at Max take off weight. Emergency afterburner is 21,800 pounds of thrust and Max take off is 22,900
Very well done, thank you!
Me ha resultado muy interesante. Gracias por contarnos estos "secretos" ! Un saludo !
Wow this is thorough!! Great video!
Very nicely explained
Excellent details!
Thanks for uploading, that was epic !!
Excellent videos about this iconic aircraft - thank you very much!
And it was a brilliant idea to use engine sound instead of background-music during the description of the switches and knobs! Well, it is kind of "music" to most of us ;)
Great video Sir. Fantastisk video og takk for alt arbeidet du har lagt inn for å lage videoen!!!
Excellent info, thanks.
Well put across sir!
great video, great presentation. Goes without saying that a pilot of this bird has his hands full. Thanks for posting.
This is so awesome
i have a mig-21 bis behind my school that's painted like the one at 4:50
It is a classic aircraft. Beautiful!
❤❤❤❤good job man love you from DJ Don Pro Amritsar punjab india
Great video!
This is the most iconic jet ever made love this bird
As you alluded, many of the cockpit instruments have been replaced with western ones. The attitude indicators (also known as artificial horizon indicators) jumped out at me as being of the western standard. The main indicator is the big instrument towards the top left that looks like it has a sphere behind the glass, with black & white areas, with the dividing line between them being on a slant. This instrument is not upside down, these instruments often tilt over in some random orientation when the power is turned off. As the gyroscope spins up (after engine start), it orients with the black side down. On western instruments, the aircraft symbol (that's the little "w" piece behind the glass) stays fixed, and the sphere behind it rotates to indicate the plane's attitude (nose up/down and banked level/left/right.) I was a US Navy pilot, so that's how I know. The Russian/Soviet style instruments have the horizon indicator being fixed, and the aircraft symbol moves up/down and tilts left/right to indicate the attitude. There is a smaller auxiliary/backup attitude indicator at the bottom left of the panel. This is the one showing the blue colored piece under the glass.
I also don't believe the original MiGs had a HUD, so this would have been a Finnish addition. IIRC the original MiGs had a big bulky gunsight that made the forward view even more restricted that what you see on this example.
Great video, really appreciate this. Classic turquoise cockpit colors on the MiGs, you really can't mistake it.
Thanks for your contribution to the forum.
Those instruments were swapped by the Finnish Airforce to western ones. Unknown reason why the temperature indicator is doubled, likely museum didn't have a spare for speed indicator so they used two temperature ones and just put the RPM instrument to left side.
The plane in this video doesn't have a HUD, it is the original gunsight.
I find the original Russian instruments more logical and easier to read. Example your mentioned artificial horizon (vertical attitude indicator) is very clear when the background is black/white backgrounded from the horizon (black is ground and white is sky) and it rolls around vertically. The aircraft symbol stays fixed to center and it rolls around from the center to indicate the aircraft bank relative to the horizon. This IMHO makes very easy to understand plane attitude as the instrument shows the plane relativity to ground, so if the wings are 30 degree to right, then plane is 30 degree to right. If the plane axis (center) points to black 5 degrees, you are 5 degrees downward. The thinking goes opposite than in western where you need to think earth relative attitude to you, where russian one is that you look aircraft relative attitude to ground. It is small thing that "clicks" or not.
The horizontal attitude indicator is as well little more complex in the Russian, but it doesn't show in it the range to the beacon or waypoint, as that range value is indicated in small rolling number panel on top right just above RPM needles (and right to the radar filter buttons, that are top of the radar scope).
I dislike all these modern horizontal instruments, as I can't understand why it was so wanted to have the plane fixed straight forward and have the compass rose rotate around, so that your heading is the northern line. And then you need to read the small numbers in the instrument or to find the N/E/S/W letter to get the idea. What I adore is the old MiG-15 style instrument, where the compass rose is fixed and the plane symbol rotates around pointing toward the heading you are going.
Here it can be seen under gunsight shadow: static.rcgroups.net/forums/attachments/8/9/6/3/7/a1658295-4-MiG-15%20Cockpit%2006.jpg?d=1200164003
It is not so accurate to find the current reading because that seems to be only lined for every 5 degrees (how much more you need, when you get about 1 degree accuracy anyways?) but at glance you get instantly the idea that what direction you are flying to, and that is why I like it, as there is no need to read numbers or search letter and do any thinking, you just look that plane points to east etc and you know where you are going. And now when you communicate with someone over radio about directions, you can instantly think everything in the compass readings as clock watch directions and you know where you need to turn and how much.
As well something that people don't usually talk about is the Russian planes automatic pilot system (SAU = Sistema Avtomaticheskovo Upravleniya = "Automatic Control System"). As those are very clever. Example the sticks have two buttons on top next to trim that are shown in this video, the left is to disable autopilot mode completely, and the right is to enable automatic recovery mode.
Normally those planes are flown with autopilot, there is autopilot modes for take-off, cruise and landing. When the autopilot is enabled (normal stabilization mode), the trim button commands the wanted change in altitude (pitch) so one can hold it down/up and autopilot will start ascension or decend until it is released. If the plane is inside +/- 10 degrees roll, then autopilot will automatically level the plane. If the roll angle is more than 10 degrees, then that roll angle is hold in level flight, so you can example fly a circus automatically.
The pedals can be used to change the direction where SAU will maintain the flight.
The pilot can at any given time fly a plane just by applying force to the stick, and once the stick doesn't receive any input the stabilization mode will again level/roll the plane etc.
The stabilization system as well constantly is performing correction inputs to keep the aircraft steady for smooth flying.
The most interesting is the SAU recovery button on the stick, when recovery mode is enabled, it will level the plane from almost any attitude. It does require that Recovery mode is enabled in the autopilot panel (just front of the throttle, a triangle panel with four green lights, the white switch).
If the aircraft altitude is by the radar altimeter under 1500 meters and it is in recovery mode, the autopilot has max 5 G authority for pitch up maneuver to recover the plane to level flight to 1500 meters (or was it to 3000 meters if flown under 1500 meters...). This example allows pilot that has lost the situational awareness, just to press a button on the stick to activate it (if not already). This is similar that what western fighters has just received in few years where the system recovers and saves the pilot when they don't give any feedback to controls and plane is flying to terrain.
Then there are two different kind automatic landing systems in MiG-21Bis, where the autopilot will fly the plane to capture the landing system signal and then fly the plane in glide path down to 30 meters altitude, and then pilot needs to cancel the mode (stick red button) and take plane to touchdown manually.
Later on in the MiG-23, Su-25 and so on new modes were added, automatic flight path mode where the system literally goes from take-off to landing through the flighplan. Pilot enables the mode when they have aligned with the runway and then start rolling. And next time the pilot needs to put hands on controls is 30 meters from the ground when landing.
In other planes like Su-27 the trigger in stick is for disabling autopilot for as long as the trigger is hold. So example pilot can be flying as wanted, but to maneuver or change course, altitude etc quickly just pull trigger and perform the correction and release trigger and autopilot resumes.
@@katumus Thanks for your contribution to the forum. Most edifying.
Good videos. Thanks for making them buddy.😎
excelent entertainment! Thanks for posting> there are few MIG 21 here in Laos and they are such a good looking Classic aircraft - Love it!
Enestående! Bra jobbet, Magnar!
Well done.
great video, kiitos
Olet tervetullut
Very nice
Part two is also an outstanding video. Lots to learn before taking the chocks out. I do like the turquoise interior paint. Brightens up all the instruments & switches. The front main panel should've been the same color too. No organization in this cockpit. This aircraft really does need hyd. braking or an onboard air compressor for the brakes.
Thank you so much❤
Cool video. It's been many years since I worked on this beast, but I think the blue bottles are for oxygen and the black ones are for the compressed air.
Excellent.
The only Russian cockpit I've been able to scrutinize closely was in an AN-2. It has quite a large number of toggle switches and unfortunately they were all in Russian. It would take a pilot with an elephant's memory to fly the Mig-21. I'm not sure how well anyone would even memorize the AN-2. I fly a J3C Piper Cub manufactured in 1946. About three switches and a push button is all my Cub needs. (It has electric start and no brakes). Thanks for the detailed editing you did especially on Part 2. I did watch part 1 also.
Wonderful✨😍
great
Please make a detailed video on all blocks of F16.
What I love about instrument panels in general is..
SO much thought has been placed on the design of every switches and indicators.
And they look fricken cool!
At 3:07 what you call a "deflector", the strake which runs below the pressure relief door, is actually a shock wave producer, designed to control the gun blast from the integral 23mm gun. It may, incidentally, act as a FOD, but that is not its primary purpose.
Thanks for your feedback!
Sir, the blue spherical bottle in the left Wheel Bay, you indicate by arrow, is meant to store oxygen and not air. Two functions (a) to indicate oxygen contents (in terms of kg per square centimetre) and (b) flow of oxygen (inhaling/exhaling by pilot) are combined in one gauge.
Thanks for clarifying this!
Fascinating. Are all cockpit controls of this era so, apparently, dis-organized?
The first country to organize the cockpit instruments was the United Kingdom in the 1930s. They introduced a standard panel with six flight instruments on a dampened panel. Engine instruments were located to the right, and some of them were color coded. Therefore, a pilot could easily swap from one aircraft to another. The Americans followed suit much later. I have some knowledge about the Northrop F-5, and it has quite a neat cockpit.
Excellent details, Pl make video on Mig-21 Bison used by Indian air force with Israeli avionics which has downed F-16.
So if you have a drop tank you cant use the rear speedbrake? Do they lock it out?
Cool video. funny I have similar thoughts recently to use a museum aircraft to do some videos, though not Migs..
Guess pilots think alike lol...
The wing fences are not used for "straightening the airflow". They are for producing high-energy. vortices that re-energizes the boundary layers moving towards the wing tips at high angles of attack.
Don't mix wing fences with vortex generators.
@@FlywithMagnar I am not mixing them up. I have not said they are the same thing. Wing fences work in a similar manner as vortex generators or LEX by creating a longitudinal vortex and preventing wing stalling. The 3D boundary layers on a swept wing travel outboard towards the wing tip in curved streamlines. It is not possible to " striaghten the flow" by using wing fences and there is no point to do so.
the SPS switch is not for countermeasures, it's for the blown flaps system "SPS".
You are right. Thanks!
Wow that cockpit looks complicated, I would have big trouble memorizing all of the functions there
Also, ich war Flugzeugmechaniker und Wart an der Mig 21 SPS und M In Peenemünde stationiert bis 1970. Die hier gezeigte Mig 21 ist mir völlig fremd, was die Instrumente betrifft. Äußerlich ist sie unverwechselbar und wie immer wunderschön. Wer weiß es,- von wann ist die Maschine?
Does remind me of a starwars land racer..even with this bucket of bolts we have come a long way in a very short time since the brothers Wright..I am always surprised by the wear in these fighter jets..these planes are intensively used by people who call the cockpit their office
Dang...that's a lot of buttons and switches for something that is only in the air for 15-20 minutes.
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Think about the Master Green Pilots of thies a/cs.They got supper human memory quick reaction and cool mind.
They're not Pakistani pilots.
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A l'avant y'a tous les filtres radars et suis la gauche j'ai pas vu l'interrogateur IFF
Excellent video series on the mMg-21.
By the way, in English, the “G” in the word “Generation” or “generator” is pronounced like a “J”, as in the word “jump”. “J”eneration…. !!! Hope this helps in future videos.
Thanks! Yes, I'm fully aware that my English pronunciation is a bit off. However, I speak perfect Norwegian!
Im surprised how short the engine is. I though the whole length of the fuselage was all engine.
«Don’t push that button» got a whole new meaning. «What button?». The MIG-21 cockpit is really confusing. Imagine for a not super pilot to figure out any irregularity or problem…
In many cases the solution is to eject.
I have always wondered:
In a lot of cold war soviet jets, there is this sort of cushion in the middle right below the hud. Here it is visible at 12:00 in the middle of the frame. What is that?
I thought you put your chin or forehead on it to look through the Gunsight or a pad to protect your face if you crash.
Not gonna lie, this is better than porn. Amazing work.
Where is the Canon ammo pool indicator ( the dial which shows how many rounds of ammo is left)????????
I have searched for it, but cannot find it. I'm not sure whether the 21 Bis have this indicator.
@@FlywithMagnar I believe they should, because how else would pilot know how many ammo is left?
Why your voice sound like Jyrki Laukkanen 🙂
Do you know more about the alpha jet
Yes, but it's not on my to-do list yet. I have too many projects going on!
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what is your opinion on the f7pg
The F-7PG is a variant developed for Pakistan. It has updated engine, avionics, armament and a new wing planform (double delta). How it compares to late variants of the MiG-21, I don't know.
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the mikoyan-gureevich mig,-21-fishbef. the fighter most produced aircraft in the world.
To make it correct, the MiG-21 is the most produced supersonic fighter aircraft in the world (11,496). The most produced jet fighter is the MiG-15 (18,000), and the most produced fighter is the Messerschmidt Bf-109 (33,984).
Mislim da bi nakon ovog video uratka mogo letjet bez problema
better than f-22
How can pilots remember so many buttons and switches, my goodness
I know the Mig-21 is a killing machine, but aside from that, it's a really cool thing. If I had one, I'd probably not kill anyone, but I'd sure fly it around. There may be a couple of legal hurdles because I don't have a pilot's license.
Dear..there is no steering in nose wheel ...amend it if possible
My appology. For reference, I used a cutaway from Flight International, and it shows an acuator on the upper aft part of the nose gear with the label " hydraulic steering unit". When i take a closer look, there are no hydraulic lines attached to it. So, it's probably a damper.
I cannot revise the video, so I have to make a remark in the comments section below.
Thank you for notifying me.
@@FlywithMagnar you are right..that is shimmy damper only and no hydraulic connection required.
Totally bitchin video, thanks for providing it.
1. thats not a HUD, thats a gyro gunsight
2. you didnt even say anything about the radar, and its crazy cooling...
still a good vid tho
Yes, it's a gunsight. My mistake. The radar is shown at 14:38 and is mentioned in Part 1 (about four minutes into the video). ua-cam.com/video/LjL8HJOxfZ4/v-deo.html
@@FlywithMagnar i meant the range, and the cooling (alcohol cooling)
When I said the range was not so good, it was because it was 30 NM at the best. I know the MiG-25 used a mixture of ethanol and water to cool the radar and other avionics. That radar was a beast (600 kW). The information that the MiG-21 has the same cooling system is new to me. Thank you!
@@FlywithMagnar mhmm i get it
no problem with the informasjon
DCS World 😁
No coffee machine ?? 😲
Sorry Magnar but I much prefer your videos on the ATR aircraft and your analysis of aviation accidents of civil commercial aircraft. This video is well put together, but of less interest in my particular case. I still clicked the "like" button!
Thanks for the click! Don't worry, there will be more videos about ATR and civil aviation.
12:08 Sounds somebody was dying.
I heard this aircraft could take down F35 within visual range
That must be a sloppy F-35 pilot!
The MiG-21 is a hit and run fighter. It performs badly in a turning fight because it looses energy rapidly. Furthermore, the view from the cockpit is very poor. However, it has a relatively good turn rate a low speed, which can be a challenge for third generation fighters.
The F-35 is another breed. It provides the pilot with unmatched situation awareness and can easily outmaneuver the -21.
@@FlywithMagnar what about lighting serious problem there
keep hearing negative things said like cannot land rearm and go again
cannot climb cannot turn
these are real things being brought up with makers F22 superb machine NOT FOR SALE
@@micstonemic696stone if you ever have a chance to see an F22, DO IT. Your questions will quickly be answered. Absolute MONSTER. Also, don't believe the rumors about the 35 not being able to turn ;)
I think this aircraft should not exceed 70's era in service with all it advantages during it first development during late 50's but it concept were outdated early 70's, the soviet should stop producing it in that time, but they still continues producing it because it's cheap to build, while hiding it's killing malfunctions
2:34. Bro. That's a SU-22.
No. This is a MiG-21UM. The first generation 21 has a small air intake because it doesn't have a radar.