Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military
From: bwood@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Blake Philip Wood)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: MiG's in US service
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.031118.25064@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 03:11:18 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.034335.1293@cbnews.att.com>
Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Lines: 16
Approved: military@att.att.com



From: bwood@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Blake Philip Wood)

>
>The Israeli government sent some MiGs (17 or 19) to the US
>quite some time ago... A friend says, MiG-21, too.

There was a MiG-21 at Oshkosh a few weeks ago which did a series of 
500 kt. afterburner flybys at about 100' above the runway - right in
front of the crowd.  VERY LOUD.  It was painted in N. Vietnam colors,
and was billed as the only privately owned MiG-21 in the free world.


                 Blake P. Wood - bwood@janus.Berkeley.EDU
                 Plasmas and Non-Linear Dynamics, U.C. Berkeley, EECS