Monday, April 20, 2020

A low-level MiG-15 over the Mojave Desert - with hydraulic failure


A French pilot, Corentin Larose, went for a flight over the Mojave Desert in California in a MiG-15UTI two-seat fighter trainer aircraft (Korean War vintage), accompanied by another pilot.  The footage he shot of the flight is excellent, but it's made even more interesting by a hydraulic failure en route.  They managed to land the plane safely, before the failure made the aircraft non-recoverable.





You can read more about the flight here.

Peter

2 comments:

John T. Block said...

At least the commies had enough sense to make the landing gear deployable without hydraulics...

Phil said...

Way cool old jalopy but I would use this for exhibit A when it comes to the reasons I don't like to fly. You can't just pull over to the side of the road when a major failure happens...