It was Valentine's Day 1955 in the erstwhile Soviet Union. On that winter morning - the high was just under -5 degrees Celsius - there was something in the air at Zhukovsky Airfield, an airbase some ...
Few combat aircraft have been produced in numbers comparable to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. Conceived during the height of the Cold War, the MiG-21 was designed to be fast, simple, and affordable, ...