Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Soviet Air Presence at US Airshows Message-ID: <1990Jul31.023200.20352@cbnews.att.com> Date: 31 Jul 90 02:32:00 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mary Shafer Steve Nuchia (nuchat!steve@uunet.UU.NET) writes: >From: "Stephen D. Grant" >tour which they are making is funded totally by the aircrafts >manufacturers, Migoyan. The Kremlin is paying nothing for this 'outing'. The Kremlin is still the majority shareholder in Migoyan, in case we've forgotten. :-) It's Mikoyan, not Migoyan. The MiG designation comes (transliterated) from Mikoyan-Gurgevich. Hence the peculiar capitalization. ^^ ^ [mod.note: Rats, I should have caught that. Well, not to make the same mistake twice, it's "Mikoyan-Gurevich", only one "g". 8-) - Bill ] -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot