Free Ejection Seat: 1975 MiG-21 Cockpit

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 was a supersonic jetfighter that first saw service in the Soviet Air Force in 1959. It was surprisingly able to achieve a Mach 2 airspeed (at 43,000 ft) with its single afterburner equipped Tumansky R-25-300 turbojet and downed a significant number of American planes during the Vietnam war. In fact, it was […]

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