01944cam a2200361 i 4500001001900000003000500019008004100024010001600065020001500081027001900096035002000115037001100135040001900146050002400165100003400189245008900223264003700312300004800349336002600397337002600423337002800449338003600477338002700513500002900540504004100569520073600610530005801346588004701404650003101451710002201482856005901504999001901563rnd000000000047794RAND920212s1991    cauabo   b    000 0 eng d  a   92187352  a083301191X  aRAND/R-4000-RC  a(Sirsi) a189018  c$30.00  aCstmoRcCstmoR00aUG1242.F5bL36 19911 aLambeth, Benjamin S.eauthor.10aFrom Farnborough to Kubinka :ban American MiG-29 experience /cBenjamin S. Lambeth. 1aSanta Monica, CA :bRAND,c1991.  axiv, 133 pages :bill, map, photos ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aOne ill. on folded leaf.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aAt 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.  aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aMIG-29 (Jet fighter plane)2 aRand Corporation.41yOnline Accessuhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4000/  c598182d598182