Mig 21 take off (cockpit view)

[@chrisparkes]

When you see it from this POV it really brings to life the fact you are just a cockpit strapped to an engine with some metal between you and the sky.

[@NomadTheProtogen]

This, doesn’t bring a smile to my face.

[@Lightning_Mike]

And the only thing between you and disaster is your skill. Little to nothing automatic on this. Like riding a broomstick

[@quint2885]

@@Lightning_Mike The SAU autopilot on the mig 21 has a lot of useful functions like: Stabilizer, if you ever go out of control you press a button on the flight stick and the plane recovers itself and flies in a straight line; Control smoothing; Landing autopilot;

[@shadowguardian3612]

@@quint2885 like every other modern-ish aircraft

[@allennelson1987]

@@Lightning_Mike skill, and luck. As Wikipedia notes, a pilot requires both to survive.

[@BellTechnical]

Impressive! The pilot began processing the startup procedure before sitting down. Obvious that a lot of hours have been spent in this aircraft. Great video. Thanks for this experience.

[@scottyweimuller6152]

He was just turning the turn signals off so nothing special

[@flavienlecourtier6235]

@@scottyweimuller6152 Make obfull and dream with... For opinion, F.

[@flavienlecourtier6235]

Make à phisycal sign for please to sign-up... Flavien.

[@MrGlorios]

​@@scottyweimuller6152Turn signals? For a plane? 😂😂 And it's not like just any plane, it's an intercepter😂😂😂

[@strizhi6717]

Absolutely has to be one of my favorite jets - first flown in 57 and for a 2nd generation not only able to compete with America's 3rd F-4 Phantom but still flying to this days for at least thirty nations and being the most vastly produced jet - record speaks for itself. Simple, cheap, reliable and good all around Russian product at its finest even by western interpretation of Soviet standards. This single seater as well as two seater versions have proved beyond their years of still being formidable and frankly decisive...for example Syria fight against ISIS. Great post of a fine aircraft!

[@kkenneth100]

The ak-47 of fighter jets

[@SenkaBandit]

@@kkenneth100 more like AKM

[@kkenneth100]

@@SenkaBandit I’m not update on that one but from what I read the AKM is the latest and greatest. That AK- Family of guns is probably the over all best military assault rifle ever made. It’s just built for the soldier that needs a dependable weapon that he can count on. It’s a good design. The best.

[@SenkaBandit]

@@kkenneth100 akm was first made in 1959 and is one of the most produced rifles in history. While not being the latest or greatest imo, there’s still better and more modern alternatives out there like 5.56 rifles or the AK-74 which has a lighter and faster 5.45x39mm cartridge

[@kkenneth100]

@@SenkaBandit you seem to be pretty up to date and knowledgeable about your military hardware. You a gun dealer collector, or ex military??

[@r0tb3rt]

Good old 240p, just how I like it.

[@djjmann]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@generfeld]

taken on a flip phone maybe )

[@ThatSlowRedFG1]

6 years ago what do you expect lol

[@r0tb3rt]

@@ThatSlowRedFG1 Well 1080p existed back in that days. ;)

[@caula1815]

@@r0tb3rt but not in go pros, I think

[@brayanfelipeserrano6486]

If it is a Chinese version of the mig-21, then it is a J-7 shenyang.

You mean copy of MiG21

[@vesical7952]

@ no version Russia literally gave china a licence to produce and make mig 21s

[@albundybudbundy3714]

@@vesical7952 yeah but Albania gave them mig 21 so the Chinese will produce more and more. I was wondering the same thing that this is exactly like Chinese chengdu J7 , ( I was flying one in 1992 in albania) and was a bit faster than Soviet mig 21.

[@planegaper]

Chowaaaaaa!!!

[@zenmuse7768]

@ They reverse engineered the J-7 without any schematics from the Soviets, and fix 25 inherent problems with the plane, such as the ejection system and also engine overheat I think.

[@craigpennington1251]

Thanks guys. Just cruising around in a Mig-21. How cool is that eah? This video made my day!

[@Mikishots]

This is a Chengdu J-7. It's a variant, not a MiG-21

[@julienperalta9724]

My favorite plane I flight with un DCS and I love him thank for this vidéo

[@arthurbillot4317]

Français ?

[@julienperalta9724]

@@arthurbillot4317 ouaip

[@Scooby-Doo24]

Holy shit ! This jet took down f-16. The Indian pilot had balls of steel.

[@alexm566]

and dozens of F4 Phantoms too..

[@darthvader5558]

It also took down a B52

[@darthvader5558]

@Prestallar Pakistani F16 pilot gonna cry

[@darthvader5558]

Imagine a vintage fighter jets taking out modern fighter jets like F16 🤣

[@darthvader5558]

The Pakistani government covered up the whole thing due embarrassment that the Mig21 shot down F16 🤣🤣🤣🤣 But yeah the old Mig21 shot down Pakistani F16 , that's the truth

[@syedaameraliabdi4233]

@Ajay Singh. Mig-21 spare parts also available in Pakistan.

[@bangsarster]

Thank you for the offer Syed. By the way, if you are into scarp metal business, India has crushed F16s.

[@pwe9740]

Yeah sure. That was crashed mig 21, not f16.

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

@@pwe9740 Since when Pakistan started using MiG-21?

[@aajjaayyuk]

How many Indians are here after shootout of F-16 by IAF Mig-21? Tauba Tauba Tauba 😂 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@anirudhaaryan6450]

😂😂😂🤣🤣😍😍

[@avinashdubey6959]

😂😂😂

[@alinalin-nq2cq]

it s an ICON for EUROPA/ROMANIAN

[@fadel_wibowo0752]

i hate it when people overprouding their country and using unnecessary large amount of emojis

[@SkeeNnN]

F A K E N E W S

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

Hey what's that thing to the left of the HUD? Is it for holding your can of cola? :)

[@sanfranciscobay]

+Andrew Tubbiolo. It holds your Playboy Magazine and your cold Beer.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

SanFranciscoBay Who needs porn when you are flying a MiG-29? The view out the window is good enough for me, let alone the wonderfulness of the machine.

[@justforever96]

*MiG-21*

[@toadman506]

Andrew Tubbiolo serious answer? It's a bracket to hold a handheld GPS like a Garmin

[@marcelodacosta8090]

Vodka!!!!

[@cons.trihandoko287]

In Indonesia, this Mig 21 has been in museum since 1970s.

[@jordanpierrevelcin3916]

Thank god the earth is round

[@viktorktt2ma78]

Military secret 240p footage. Everybody knows mig21 cockpit.

[@ninaslk9573]

Wow...so wonderful takeoff and beautiful flying that you have..... good luck Capitan....

[@omerfarukbuyuk5176]

This plane have a ejection seat ?

[@BCSchmerker]

Nicely done on this vid of a milk run with a J-7. The area around the gunsight is quite crowded, especially with the camera peering through the reflector close to where one would expect the boresight marker. Did this particular example get a dual-trigger stick grip retrofit? (I know the latest Russian types to pack a stores trigger, here shown retracted, and a separate gun trigger, which the stores trigger guards during a bomb drop or missile shoot.) Incidentally, OKB Mikojana-Gurjevnogo, back in Russia, has done some work to restore some of the six-o'-clock visibility lost in the MiG-21M through -21bis when the fat dorsal fairing was added for avionics space; the -21bisSP and -21bisSM (Mods 92 and 93, respectively) have a raised cockpit with a canopy backported from the MiG-29/35 family.

[@alex-audreywilliams4555]

Sweet video! Which air base?

[@kogakeke9772]

NO idea.

[@neuzdost1939]

Are those gardening gloves?

[@ThanatosSGD1]

J-7 Chengdu or MiG-21?

[@davidwang9998]

J7

[@LeonAllanDavis]

Must have used a Soviet-era 60/120p video camera to film this. Probably came originally with the airplane - along with two sets of keys and the maintenance schedule. Nothing like staying authentic.

[@bartdereu]

i couldn't really tell what pixel the mig was

[@MaksHKKZ]

What is that metal thing crossing his HUD Glass from the right site?

[@rdenovan1]

What version of mig 21 is this , j7 must be in service, with gun sight still mounted.

[@Shinywhite]

Looks just like in DCS

[@makismakiavelis5718]

+Tony Soprano DCS is in better resolution though. Just kidding.

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

No its other way around.. DCS should look exactly like this -_- And it kinda does..

[@ramon1930]

The cockpit is a quite different, isn't?

[@yusupashari3725]

Is there using zero ejection seat?

[@agdgdgwngo]

ramon 19 Different variant, UM I'm guessing

[@hujjesb]

With the worn green paint in the cockpit . This bird is a grandfather

[@charlesstrader3005]

It doesn't look like the visibility from the cockpit is so great?

[@kosapatryk3588]

That's another level after playing fee years in DCS?

[@calvin7039]

Wait where is the canopy?

[@napornik]

Sounds like mighty vacuum cleaner..

[@mudpitboarder]

Kancho because it is !

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

That's a quite accurate description of any jet engine.

[@stormcsss]

We could even enjoy 144p! WOW!

[@bynunenkim603]

actually thats a j7 not a mig 21 fishbed (which is copied without permission.)

[@DJEDzTV]

Whata lovely quality

[@justforever96]

Wouldn't this be a J-7, rather than a MiG-21, to be pedantic? In any case, you realize that the flying time shown in this video would be enough to burn up about 20% of the MiG-21's fuel load? The only real weakness the MiG-21 had; its engine was too big for its fuel tanks!

[@Orpheuss62]

Probably the videoclip it was recorded with a spoon or something.

[@danielsu1645]

this is J7, 0:11Look at the top left, Youku is a Chinese video website and I heard a Chinese word ‘好’

[@albundybudbundy3714]

I guess this is chengdu J 7 , the Chinese version of Mig21

[@gouravmallick1727]

Correct,notice the tip of the plane

[@sanfranciscobay]

The forward view is very obstructed by the canopy framing and the gun sight devices.

[@ivylyons9714]

+SanFranciscoBay i bet better canopies were a huge motivation for future designs (the rear of this one completely obscures the rear of the plane, and, in that respect, somewhat downgrades the previous mig planes)

[@justforever96]

They don't need much forward vision to spot a B-52 bomber up ahead of you. Radar was supposed to deal with that stuff by the time this was designed anyway; it was intended to shoot own bombers. It's an interceptor, not a dogfighter. As for rear visibility, it was hard to look over your shoulder while wearing a pressure suit anyway. Future fighters had better visibility, but I wouldn't say it was inspired by the MiG-21's lack of it; later Soviet jets like the MiG-23, etc, weren't much better, and even the US wasn't great until the F-15-era programs. An F-4 is a far cry from an F-16 in forward visibility.

[@justforever96]

And note that this video makes it look worse than it is; the Gopro is mounted above his head, so you're looking right into the canopy framing. Normally, you'd be looking under it, so only the very upper part of your line of sight is effected. This is kind of like someone driving a car with a headcam...you're going to see the sunvisor right ahead of you and roof filling the upper half of the screen, where from 6 inches lower, you hardly notice it.

[@mohammedabdulmahdi2068]

Life could be dream🎶🎶🎶

[@Zatracenec]

Great video...thanks.

[@MichaelPareda]

awesome

[@kubanskiloewe]

in DCS this MIG21 is so heavy in elevator....cant believe it !

[@whereswally08]

I was going to make a joke about the mig 21 in war thunder but I don’t have it so I got no jokes to tell,

[@roberthaney4106]

Visibility? ?

[@leocostello279]

old but Good fighter jet

[@ggwo621]

This is PLAAF J-7

[@BharuRDMessi]

To think Wg.Cmdr. Abhinandan was forced to intercept PAF jets in this rust bucket is absolutely shambolic on the part us Indians. Yes, we've downed an F-16 but it was only due to sheer luck! We would've lost Abhinandan had been otherwise. No negotiations, these birds had their time, now they're just rust buckets and MUST BE TAKEN OFF!

[@parkpunk2]

I'm always amazed how pilots can fly and land with such poor front visibility.

[@rhysgoodman7628]

Well I suppose it’s a BIT better than what the video provides, but yeah, it’s still bad.

[@justforever96]

This isn't even that bad. You can actually see out the front, it's just a crowded view. There are lots of planes that you effectively can't see out the front, nothing but sky anyway. Think of all those old radial engine planes. When you are landing you are nose high, you came see shit. You do most of your looking out the side, you get good at lining up based on what you see before you turn in, them you sideslip to make sure everything is good. Luckily the runway is wide and straight and won't move, and as long as no one blocks it while you are doing your final glide in you don't really need to see it. In the air it just doesn't matter. Honestly if you were in a car and knew the road ahead was wide and straight and empty, it wouldn't be that hard to drive by what you can see out the side window. If you are nervous, do an S every now and then so you can see you the road.

[@fadel_wibowo0752]

the proof that this is the Shenyang J-7: -on the top left or right it says "youku". Youku is just like a chinese youtube, i've been on china before too -the pilot speak mandarin -the uniform of this pilot is dark blue, its a chinese pilot uniform, you can see it on the 2009 chinese military parade

[@geraltofvengerberg3049]

what game is it ?

[@sidefx996]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA BEST COMMENT EVER!

[@tjrfyno1490]

the game is " The earth Online"

[@josephc.9520]

Chinese War Game 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😎😎

[@evansnyder430]

I would give anything to see this in even 480p

[@intertwinedswastikainmatin6548]

Looks like an F-7, its wings have that crank shape, rather than a pure delta.

[@alex-audreywilliams4555]

Which Country...China?

[@kogakeke9772]

Yes, it is Chinese J-7

[@hyperkid321]

***** how did you get the footage?

[@kogakeke9772]

hyperkid321 Chinese video site

[@hyperkid321]

cool

[@marianolszanicki7011]

Jestem laikiem, ale moim zdaniem interesująca byłaby jeszcze jedna kamerka skierowana na wskażniki prędkości i obrotów turbiny.

[@Maidenize666]

not a 21 ...the nose isn't cut off ... :(

[@maryamkaita2529]

It is you just sent see it from the cockpit

[@infectedN8]

beautiful quality

[@gouridefalungong]

zai zhe li kan dao le youku shi pin haha

[@saidahmed1028]

So tight . Why millions of dollars worth a toy so small

[@khalildas741]

Need a more wide-angle camera, with some image stabilization.

[@dirty9358]

And 60 fps

[@raphael7552]

Much more expensive than the aircraft !!

[@supremeleader5516]

F-16 killer Daddy 💪

[@pwe9740]

No.

[@افشین-ف3ب]

Good، ،،،nias❤❤❤❤

[@deronchoo3401]

It looks like a Chinese mig

[@kdp8091]

2014 and very low quality of video Montage? Gotta be kiddin me

[@nathenmassey8798]

0:36

[@МаксДамагехаз]

А где посадка ?!!

[@UmaUma-xn8dl]

Не получилась

[@sagarshukla461]

It is barely visible at front

[@Pilotwad967]

Очень плохое качество. Ни один прибор не видно. Плохо.

[@соловей46]

Наше самолеты и оружие везде россия вперед ура.

[@CH-pv2rz]

240P? Are you kidding? Your video is about as high tech as that POS MiG-21!

[@碾核]

好片子

[@nickkerssens5444]

View from cockpit could be better...

[@fpdiscopenguin]

So it's a quiet plane then

[@truthwithin9131]

Its chines copy of mig21 may be they called them Chengdu J-7

[@grantourismo0109]

chinese j7 ?

[@kogakeke9772]

grantourismo0109 yes

[@elpablo3372]

240p .. hello my old friend..

[@ardianzelaj3723]

bukur..

[@nonsense0233]

i love potatocameras

[@AmanVerma-iy8hc]

F16 is down by Mig 21 😃

[@impactpointstudio]

Tea is funtashtic

[@fadel_wibowo0752]

who gives a shit

[@milanlodhiwal5276]

This is not a mig21

[@unhandydaddy5117]

And Indian Airforce is still using this ancient fighter jet.... Please just retire these... They belong in a museum not a battlefield....

[@rehanaleem4125]

Indos aren't flying these coffins but rather falling these junkies off the skies... better for Indos if they should use these shit beds as cabs on the roads

[@unhandydaddy5117]

@@rehanaleem4125 true... These are Soviet Era fighter jets we're talking about.... When the world is busy talking about 6th Gen fighters we still use 2nd Gen in our fleet... I think it's about time the tejas fleet has been introduced and rafale deal is on full fledge

[@Mike-01234]

Interesting that the runway said 22 on it not Chinese writing.

[@JHKLUUP1111111111]

+blastman8888 how so?

[@kogakeke9772]

+blastman8888 Did you see any runway say 22 in Chinese?

[@justforever96]

I think most Asian nations use Arabic numerals like we do, at least for aviation, because they are easier to read at a glance than Chinese or Japanese numbers are. I know that's true for Japan anyway. Look at Japanese fighters in WWII, the markings are always a mixture of Japanese characters and Arabic numbers.

[@Mike-01234]

I only assumed this video was in China at some airforce base because it has chinese writing in the top right corner of the video.

[@heartoflions7138]

Numbers are universal. Particularly for speed and safety. No one writes out or spells numbers when the symbol will do. Math and counting systems don’t need translation. 22. = twenty two in English and urshi’ urh In pinyin mandarin

[@CrazyRussianPilot]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@hohLo-Svin]

Это не Миг 21.

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

Cant see a bloody thing! 250p... Pah

[@tony-ex4tw]

优酷是什么鬼

[@liausdhfsdgfgf]

who flies this ancient machine seriously

[@TheCommodore310]

India

[@josephc.9520]

They say it can be used to 2040, but then even China flies it so...

[@farooqqureshi3791]

Kabarr khana...

[@shivaramrameshpatil2405]

From this .. aircraft india solider. lay down f 16 of Pakistan

[@maczanin1658]

经典劳保手套

[@Kabir911]

*war thunder has joined the chat*

[@cukorcica2645]

This is not MiG-21.......

[@Sean-kp1to]

I thought this was dcs

[@hammadaslamawan4933]

Who is here after PAF shot down an Indian Mig 21? Pak zindabad

[@ganesh98845]

Hammad Aslam friend I hope u know that this vintage aircraft shot down one of ur ultra modern f 16.. zindabad to the standard of ur pilot 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hammadaslamawan4933]

Ganesh bro u look like to be a literate person.....plz don't trust ur media...go n read New York times or any other international soure

[@hammadaslamawan4933]

N 1 thing more Pak didn't used f-16 in the mission.... 3 JF-17 thunder completed the mission... If u Don't trust us...then c Mr abhinandan's last interview when he was going back to India!

[@hammadaslamawan4933]

He confessed that he was searching for target meanwhile PaF shot him down...!

[@satishchandra.r294]

@@hammadaslamawan4933 The AARAAM Missile can be fitted only in F 16 and no other fighter plane has the privilege to fit that Missile. Your pilot was using F 16 and it was shot down by MIG 21 and thats the real fact.

[@zsus1]

THIS IS F7

[@HK_SRT]

susovan pandit j7

[@Ravi-jy4fb]

India has destroyed Pakistan's F-16....By mig-21💪💪💪💪

[@a.-.f_k]

Chinese AF?

[@EpicFox]

This demonstrate that Chinese are good copier (they copy without permission :( )

[@deanwinchester9036]

if they try yeah

[@josephc.9520]

So? Jet technology is Nazi/Alien tech anyway, we merely copied it

[@ЛейтенантТарасов]

Это не миг21

[@tkc61770]

China J-7