First Demonstration Flight of Ultra-Maneuverable MiG-29OVT Fighter Takes Place in Moscow Suburb of Zhukovskiy

The Russian Airplane Building Corporation MiG presented to journalists for the first time on Friday in the Moscow suburb of Zhukovskiy the new ultra-maneuverable MiG-29OVT (with deflected thrust vectoring) ((OTKLONYAEMYY VEKTOR TYAGI)) fighter in flight.

Chief of the RSK MiG Fedotov Flight Test Center, RSK MiG senior test pilot and hero of Russia Pavel Vlasov made the demonstration flight. He demonstrated aerobatic maneuvers – the double somersault ((KUL’BIT)) and boomerang, Interfax sends.

“The main quality of the MiG-29OVT - ultra-maneuverability – is achieved owing to equipping of the airplane with deflected thrust vectoring, which is integrated into the airplane’s control loop,” the director of the engineering center of RSK MiG’s Mikoyan OKB, Vladimir Barkovskiy, said.

Pavel Vlasov reported that the unique flying capabilities of the MiG-29OVT will be demonstrated at the MAKS-2005 air salon which will take place in the Moscow suburb of Zhukovskiy from 16 through 21 August.

The vectoring exhaust nozzle is intended for improvement of the airplane’s tactical and technical characteristics. A controlled jet nozzle with deflected thrust vectoring is a device with changing, depending on modes of an engine’s operation, dimensions of the throat and exhaust sections, in the channel of which there occurs a speed-up of the gas flow for the purpose of creating jet thrust and the possibility of vectoring thrust in all directions.

Source: 05.08.05, NEWSru.COM

Hello.
I have sen this Plane in Action at the IFA in Berlin and I was stoked! There is nothing this jet can´t do. He can even stand still! Unbelieveable!