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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