Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PFM | Curator on the Loose!
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- We are back with another episode of Curator on the Loose! Today we're taking a look at the Museum's MiG-21. Find out more about this infamous fighter with Senior Curator, Matthew Burchette!
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Host/Curator: Matthew Burchette
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One thing I love about Russian Designed Planes and Helicopters is that wierd Blue-Green color of the interior
It's turquoise. It was used and is still used because it provides good contrast and visibility.
@@nbond-hd5db It's an excellent choice, and thank you.
it's a beautiful colour. figuratively, if i saw anything with that colour, I'd assume it was of Soviet/Russian origin
Many other Russian influenced Asian countries like China have it was well
It's on the SU 57 too
I remember hearing someone say “the mig 21 is just a cockpit strapped to a jet engine” kinda looks true here.
Mig 21 is basically one huge flying engine 😳
@@marekmazurek8459 to me it looks like a kid drew a rocket engine with wings attached.
Lol that's the f104
@@invertedv12powerhouse77 that would be a cockpit strapped to a missile
You guys are halucinating.
The mig21s were killing F-104 starfighters and an upgraded Mig-21 Bison (upgraded with modern radar and BVR missiles) of IAF even shot down a F-16.
Should mention that this was paid for in cash - $10,000. Buyer just happened to be in former eastern block and picked on up for cheap - weapons systems included. I was head of MoF facilities and security when it was delivered and we had to reassemble it. Great story and great plane - love that it's next to the F-4. Another great restoration effort at MoF.
lol, wtf ? This thing came armed ? The fuck were they thinking
CZcams recommendations when MiG-21 PFM is announced in war thunder:
Ya, too bad it sucks in the game tho.
@@extremedoopy9972 with some mods researched its good
Okay, everyone has to do a shot whenever Matt says, "Cool."
I tried
I can’t feel my feet
Do you WANT alcohol poisoning? Because that's how you get alcohol poisoning... 😉
Air and Space Museum reduced to Sesame Street.
The Mig 21 had its own look . And when ever the apocalypse comes, the Mig 21, the AK47, the roach, Twinkies and the xmas fruit cake will last.
Underrated comment
Yup, it will be the planes for the first post apocalyptic airforce, if any
mig21 had excellent maneuverability. it is strange that the author said that this is not so
@@hwbxjr cause its not like he said they lost speed fast and when there slow there dead basically
"it's own look". Other than the almost identical Su-9/11, that you have to look closely to tell apart from the MiG-21...
Guy sounds like an overcaffeinated junior high teacher.
And I'm loving it, fun & informative
Or a pot head living at CHAZ / CHOP..
@study & observation underrated
All Czechoslovak PFM were built in USSR. Only F- 13 were made in CSSR
A co s tim dneska, když bude někdo chtít příběh, tak si ho vytvoří. Vítej ve světě CNN.
why is it that when ever there is a plane for an upcoming war thunder event, Matthew Burchette has something to say about it.
Yea, this video suddenly pop up in my feed lol
Nice vid tho
It do be like that xD
lol, you grinding for it?
Yea it popped up for me as well
CT_Chronical yep I’m grinding for it so I could sell it and buy the vautour and farm the mirage lol
Quick note worth mentioning- this thing had a radar inside the shock cone. It was small and less range then f-4 of course but it did its job and remember Phantom was 3rd gen while MiG-21 was 2nd gen fighter. So anyway it was rp-21 with a 13km range and 7km lock on. Vietnamese would dive from high altitude fire r-3 aka k-13 in salvos and full thrust to the nearest clouds to disappear back to their base. Same tactic employed by Chenault with his Flying Tiger squadron.
I've always loved the aesthetic of the mig21. It seems so perfectly balanced and aggressive looking. It just LOOKS capable.
Мой фантом теряет высоту, сбил меня летчик Ли Си Цын))
I just got out of rehab with a fellow who had a MiG 21 tattooed on his left forearm. I asked him why he had that particular model and not a more current one and he replied that it was the best looking. I figured that a 25 year old would have been more up-to-date, but hey.
It may have been his favorite plane.
I agree with the guy in rehab, the Mig 21 was one sexy fighter jet.
The cleanest, shiniest MiG21 I've ever seen. No dings or patches. Very small cockpit if you're American.
I was stationed in Romania for 9 months on operation Atlantic resolve and got to see the mig-21 bison and they are honestly super amazing, watching them fly and the noise they produce was awe inspiring considering how old the airframe is
is it was of IAF ?
@@ankursingh1996 "I was stationed in Romania for 9 months"
@@ankursingh1996 at the beginning of the video you can see the mig 21 LanceR of Romanian AF
mig21 had excellent maneuverability. it is strange that the author said that this is not so
@@ankursingh1996 Thut ! They're talking about Romania. Don't jump in simply as if your relatives has appeared Outta nowhere.
The enthusiasm of this guy is contagious
Curators child like enthusiastic talk is nice.
i just finished this video "how cool is that"
Good old Czech Mig 21... I remember when I was little looking out of my window and looking right at the airport (LKCV) where they were flying. I live actually very close to it and from my window I can see the whole airport like if I was in a tower. A very weird tower, that is further from airport and is about 3 times taller, but it works. :D
The MiG-21 is absolutely a gem! Thanks for posting!
So this is what Owen Wilson's doing these days. Thanks for the tour Owen, we love them shiny warbirds too! :P
this energetic attitude when trying to teach something should be mandatory for every person on the planet trying to teach something.
Else most people attention fade away after 30 minutes maximum.
I admire your work. I would live to see a video on the A6 Intruder. My father flew them in Vietnam and after the war as a test pilot for the A6 E. It seems the Tadpole gets scant coverage for such a revolutionary and powerful weapon, and the remarkably talented aviators that fought with them. Thank you!
Thanks for telling the story of this amazing artifact! I always wondered how on earth the museum got such a beautifully preserved model.
Just a delightful video! 💛🙏🏼
Came here for details on the aircraft to help learn it on DCS! Realised it’s not the video I’m looking for...but this guy’s enthusiasm made me stay, and I really enjoyed it! That’s pretty cool !!
I like this I mean if u want like super historical stuff about plane go to Bismarck’s channel!!
I saw a documentary about a Mig 21 pilot who defected to Israel. The guy who was telling the story was saying it was an amazingly reliable aircraft.
All you did was gas it a go, gas it and go. No maintenance required.
I saw one at an air show a couple of years ago and was amazed at how small it was.
Wow two of my favourites MIG 21 & the F4 Phantom 😍💯😎😎
Both ugly-tough yet beautiful!
Thank you very much, a very interesting video. A couple of things, however: the MiG-21 was actually very maneuverable and had an excellent power-to-weight ratio, so the US planes tried to avoid close combat with it in Vietnam. Otherwise, cool video, thank you very much again!
Like the SR-71 Blackbird, the shock cone moves in and out to adjust the speed of the air as it enters the intake at different flight speeds. Fishbed is the NATO code name, not a nickname.
So, was the SR-71 nose cone idea copied from the Russians?
@@christopherknee5756 I don't believe it was a new idea, lots of other aircraft featured it including the EE Lightning and F-104 (the starfighter had half-cones on each side of the fuselage)
I just visited the Museum of Flight for the first time. If I'm ever in Seattle again I'll be going again.
Sorry, one remark: Czechoslovakia, not the Czech Republic back then....
Glad I found this channel. The very first model airplane I assembled as a 10 year-old was the MiG-21. I liked the piece of info on the canopy opening. Very cool! Thanks
Thank you Matthew! It’s a real good video about MiG-21! 👍
Can’t wait for the next one, keep them coming!!
yasss love this place. been here 20 times. live 5 minutes away!
Perfect excursion! Thank you.
The USAF had several MiG-21's as part of the secret squadron of MiG's known officially as the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, unofficially, the Red Eagles.
Wow what was the idea behind it?
@@only-legitness to understand and evaluate foreign aircraft. The test pilot school in the US actually tested aircraft from all over, such as the Mig-21, Mig-29, Mig-23, J35 Draken, etc
"Have Donut"
I know that this is like made for kids and stuff, but sometimes that's exactly what you need.
Yup, i loved the way he made the video.
So cool to see a video in a format like this when the subject is one of our favorite aircraft.
Now that the MiG-21PFM has come to Warthunder as an event vehicle is good to find this video
I think the more correct thing to say is that delta wings are very good at low spee high angles of attack, but as a trade off for good straight line aerodynamics, and great high AoA is the fact that you lose so much speed in sustained turns. The delta wing by far isn’t bad at dogfighting. It’s all in the energy management and knowing the limits.
How cool was this! Thanks for another great video,
Seems as though a lot of the Czech MIG-21's made it to the US.
Czechoslovak
USA has German SU27s too
@@invertedv12powerhouse77 No, they don't.
Germany never operated Su-27s.
They operated MiG-29s but all their Fulcrums stayed in Europe AFTER they stopped flying the type. They kept 1 Fulcrum for a German air museum and sold the rest of ex-Luftwaffe MiG-29s to Poland.
The Su-27s that are in the US came from ex-Soviet states, not Germany. They're privately owned and operated by contractors.
@@AvengerII probably got it mixed up but yeah, I just know the Americans have their hands on them
@@AvengerII 👌👌👌
This is most probably Czecho-Slovak MiG 21. Both nations had lived together in Chezchoslovakia nearly 70 years... And only during WW2 they had separate airforce and different roundels.
Czechoslovakia dissolved 1993 into Czech republic and Slovak republic.
And yes, this is "need-to-know basis".
I love the man's enthusiasm:) Great video!
On the first time on lock down I went to your web site and saw all your aircraft on site and I must say you have quite a collection. I totally love it! 😁😁😁😁😄😄😄😄😄😄
Красавец Миг-21 ❤❤❤
Низкий поклон тебе .
Служил нам с 1955 г
Very cool indeed , thanks !
Great video ! Thanks , love the MiG 21 .
Awesome ! Thank you !
1:03 Actually the Polish called it "The Flying Pipe".. I know this because a family member flew these in Poland in the 70 and 80s.
The Mig-21 is the AK-47 of jet fighters. It's rugged, reliable, not expensive and in use over 6 decades after its introduction, just like the AK.
Mr Burchette, you are an excellent presenter! Thanks!
Awesome channel - great job! I appreciate the work.
Did you know that the nose pushes back go get more air into the engine? That’s sick!
I love this curator.
I can appreciate the mean looks , same goes for the F-4, BUT I love dogfighters eg. F6F, F4U, F86, F8, etc., etc.
It has a certain odd beauty to it, saw one several times at EAA Oshkosh, really liked it 😎
everything is so cool for this guy
Great video,and great airplane,and the explanation are clear and to the point.
Thanks for the tour.
Greeting from Venezuela.
This guy is a great curator. Really easy listening
This is a great series so interesting thank you
Cool that you have not a boring red star but nice brotherly Czech roundel,
love the series
Hey man, just a tiny detail. Since it's a PFM, it only had one pylon per wing. :)
Also, not R-11-F25-300, it's R-11-F2S-300, the S stands for SPS, which is system for blown flaps (improves lift at landing from PFM on)
Bang! Bumm! Wow! How cool is that! That´s pretty good!
Best presenter ever. I subscribed.
Fun fact, aside from China, the MiG-21 was supposed to be build under licence in Poland (under the designation LiM-7, which was an acronym for "Licentional Fighter"), and it would become the first supersonic aircraft made there. However, in 1963, Polish authorities were informed that despite the earlier promises by the Soviets, the PZL-Mielec factory will *not* be given the licence, which was instead passed to Czechoslovakia. One particular general - Jan Frey-Bielecki, the first Polish commander of the post-war Polish Air Force (which up until that moment was under the Soviet control), - did not take that lightly, and openly "wondered" whether Poland could buy the Swedish Saab Draken instead, or maybe even build /them/ under licence. Because of that, he was relieved of his post.
Another fun fact, the first Polish unit to fly the Pencil - the 62nd "Wielkopolska Insurgents" Fighter Regiment in Poznań - was also the last one to retire them: it used them for 40 years, from 1963 to 2003 (by that time it was re-formed to the 3rd Fighter Squadron), and flew the last combat patrol on 31 December 2003. Re-formed again into the 31st Air Base, the unit is now flying the F-16s.
Love you CZcams episodes!
Nicely presented. The MIG-21 here is restored better than the original that rolled off the assembly line.
I love this dude.
May need to change what I was about to say, I was going to say he was the David Fletcher of planes, but it seems that Mr. Fletcher is the Matthew Burchette of tanks.
"Bam! This guy!" / "that is crazy!"
Shaggy? Where is Schooby Doo?
Didn't expect to see a Museum of Flight version of whatever Bovington is doing, but I'm so glad to see it
This guys job is goals
Love the Romania Mig-21 LanceR intro!
Cool looking MIG👍
Greetings from Poland...I love that plane and thank you very much for that movie...it is a pity you did not show the plane cockpit...
Про МиГ -21 пишут что этих самолетов выпущено 30.000 штук! Это рекорд среди реактивных истребителей!!!
Разочарую, но рекорд это F-16 Хорнет...
Very good!
The Vietnam People's Air Force is converting these into target UAVs, a fate similar to the F-4 Phantoms it faced in the Vietnam War.
Another pencil hanging on the roof deserves some attention, the f-104
You mean the lawn dart? (Another nickname for the F-104 on account of it's accident rate.)
The Vietnamese called its are "Silver Swallow bird". Currently, Vietnam Air Force is the only army in the world using Mig 21 to shoot down B-52 Stratofortress.
MiG-21SM….. I graduated on it. The latest release of the Kharkov VVAUL on MiGs. My favorite plane. Simple as the Pravda newspaper. And reliable. When we studied the actions in special cases in flight in the third year, we were simply perplexed - every second NDE ended with the point “if ..... eject.” And when we started flying, everything became clear - there was simply nothing to refuse, and if a refusal did occur, then your presence in the cockpit was not necessary.
As for horizontal maneuverability, the American is wrong. Just on the horizon, the MiG had advantages over the Phantom. Well, not for the record, I personally pulled out an angle of attack of 34 degrees on the MiGar - I avoided a collision with the leader. And nothing, I didn’t fall, I just lost speed from 700 to 450 km/h. The only aerobatics maneuver that cannot be performed on the MiG-21 is a turn in afterburner with a bank of 10 degrees, there will not be enough fuel. (just kidding).
Nice presentation..!!
The MiG 21, to me, is the Russian version of "The Missile With a Man In It" (F-104), but it actually works.
In fact, the Mig-21 had no big problems in combat with the F4, and confidently surpassed it in maneuver. the only problem was that Vietnam had very few MiG-21s, and there were a lot of American planes.
And then it is interesting to see how the study of the enemy's technique affected both sides of the conflict.
The Americans studied the Mig-21 and came to the conclusion that it is a very light maneuverable and very inexpensive single-engine fighter. it is great in the air and at the same time is very inexpensive. hey, this is a good idea, decided in the USA, We need the same! And soon the F-16 appeared.
And in the Soviet Union, at about the same time when the Americans were considering the Mig-21, the American F5 fighter appeared. and Soviet experts were very surprised that this aircraft surpasses the Mig-21 in maneuverable combat, and is very close even to the new Mig-23. according to calculations, this could not be, it is easier for me to have a more powerful engine and a better wing, should win maneuverable combat, but time after time the F5 turned out to be stronger! The only thing that the Soviet specialists did not understand was why the Americans used not the F5 as the main fighter, but the heavy and unwieldy F4. but what was well appreciated in the Soviet Union was the role played by the different configurations of the F5 wing - it was thanks to the switching of the wing to the so-called maneuverable configuration that it began to win the battle against the Mig-21. Uh, yes, it's a good idea - said the Soviet experts. just let's not just deflect the slats and flaps in different directions, But make an airplane in which the computer will select the most effective wing configuration for each flight mode in order to achieve maximum effect both on sharp and steep maneuvers and at high speeds. and very soon the first prototypes of the super-maneuverable MiG-29 and Su-27 took off in the USSR.
Saw a couple of them parked at the Holguin airport in Cuba last year!
When the museum think you are an idiot...and talk to you like that.
I'm just here for the groovy stand-up base and nice drumming
We've got Mig21Bison , we're finding it really hard in removing the KM-1 ejection seat. Please can you help out?
This mig was one of the most produced planes on earth
That's pretty cool!
Beautiful jet. I wish I could fly one over a city or through the Grand Canyon.
For those interested in such things these are my 3 favorite aviation art books:
- Aviation Art of Lou Drendel by Lou Drendel
- Grumman F-14 Tomcat by Dave Parsons
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy by Tim Gibson
Where have you been? wings over the Rockies and now?? museum of flight thank god your back!!!!
The Mig 21 is simply iconic.
Fist time I watch this guy... he is so cool... I would invite him a beer...
A museum curator who looks like Jesus. HOW COOL IS THAT?!
aahh recommending me this as operation winter comes on
Love your footage! Please do a video about the Gee Bee Z, built by Bill Turner and used in Disney’s The Rocketeer 🙏
Wa have one of those too at the Aviation Museum Of California. Same markings too.
So cool!