Swifts aerobatic team#sky

"Strizhi" is an aerobatic team of the Russian Air Force, formed on May 6, 1991 on the basis of the 234th Guards Proskurovsky Aviation Regiment from pilots of the Kubinka Air Base near Moscow. It is part of the I. N. Kozhedub Aviation Equipment Demonstration Center. It performs group and solo aerobatics on MiG-29 (MiG-29SMT) fighters.

The pilots were the first in the USSR to master solo and group aerobatics on jet fighters: on May 1, 1946, they flew over Moscow for the first time in a parade formation. Today, Kubinka is known as the No. 1 school of aerobatic skills in Russia. In early May 2011, the Swifts aerobatic team celebrated its 20th anniversary with a new flight program. Five years later, on May 21, 2016, the Swifts aerobatic team celebrated its quarter-century anniversary, which they celebrated together with the Russian Knights.
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