01913cam a2200349 i 4500 rnd000000000047794 RAND 920212s1991 cauabo b 000 0 eng d 92187352 083301191X RAND/R-4000-RC (Sirsi) a189018 $30.00 CstmoR CstmoR UG1242.F5 L36 1991 Lambeth, Benjamin S. author. From Farnborough to Kubinka : an American MiG-29 experience / Benjamin S. Lambeth. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1991. xiv, 133 pages : ill, map, photos ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia unmediated n rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier volume nc rdacarrier One ill. on folded leaf. Includes bibliographical references. At the September 1988 Farnborough Air Show, the author met the chief test pilot of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, Valery Menitskii, who had accompanied the Soviet team to supervise the first flight demonstrations of the MiG-29 in the West. That contact led to several more encounters between the author and Menitskii during the ensuing year, culminating in an invitation from Menitskii to the author to fly the MiG-29. On December 15, 1989, the author flew with Menitskii at Kubinka Air Base near Moscow, thus becoming the first U.S. citizen to fly the MiG-29 and the first Western pilot invited to fly a combat aircraft of any type inside Soviet airspace since the end of World War II. This report documents that experience in detail. Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format. Description based on print version record. MIG-29 (Jet fighter plane) Rand Corporation. Online Access http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4000/ 598182 598182