Digging into Russian private archives and digitizing a videotape recording the celebration of..

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...Aviation Day at the Tushino airfield on August 16, 1997.

At 2:07 you can see the Strizhi (Swifts in English, Rondoni in Italian) aerobatic team: four MiG-29s (then) in white and blue livery perform aerobatics complete with smoke bombs. The video features other gems of the time such as the Mil Mi-24 "Hind" of the Berkutj (Golden Eagles) team and much more...

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