Sunday, October 31 - The Team landed at Hohhot, China

Sunday, October 31.
12:50 PM (Moscow local time), the team landed at 1st waypoint in China – Hohhot airfield.

The Team landed at Ulaan Baatar

October 29, 2004 7:30 AM (Moscow local time)
'All the migs landed at Ulan Batar', said in a short phone conversation lieutenant colonel Valery Morozov, Swifts #5 wingman. He stay in the centre on this photo.

Today's early morning photos from Ulan Bator.


Author of photos - Gankhuyag Ganbold, thank you so much!

Swifts will perform their show of 5 MiG-29 'pyramid' formation.

Swifts fly to visit China

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2004
The Swifts take off to visit The People’s Republic of China

Six MiG-29s from the Swifts team are headed for Zhuhai, southeast China, to perform at Airshow China 2004, held from the 1st through the 7th of November.

The planned flight route will take the team thousands of miles eastward across Russia and then swing southeast through Mongolia and China:


Schedule of the ongoing cross-Siberian hop of six MiG-29s:
(Moscow local time)
 
October 22, 2004
Take off from home airbase at Kubinka.
1:05 PM: team landed at Ekaterinburg.
 
October 23, 2004
11:20 AM: team landed at Novosibirsk.
 
October 24, 2004
11:38 AM: team landed at Belaya airbase, in the Irkutsk region.
 
October 29, 2004 - The planned date to cross the Russian Federation - Mongolian border.

October 29, 2004
7:30 AM: 6 MiG-29 landed at Ulan Batar, capital of Mongolia.

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