Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29UB Departing Hawthorne, CA

Here's some rare footage of a Ukrainian Air Force MiG departing the Hawthorne Air Faire. This is one heck of a way to cap off the end of the Cold War, which ended just a year prior, in 1991. Dimensions of the field are: 4956 x 100 ft. / 1511 x 30 m. As always, thanks for watching!
Recorded August 1992
Shot by my friend Craig Pilkington (Aviation Media ©)
Edited / uploaded by me with the kind permission of Aviation Media ©

[@ivegonemad]

I miss the old Hawthorne air shows! Memories !

[@alexdentondxiw]

I was here for this back in the day! Man if I could go back in time! Yeah those Rd-33's are smokey as hell!

[@davidhoffman6980]

My family used to go to the Hawthorne airshow every August. I saw the Mig 29 do it's vertical takeoff. I don't know if it was this year or not. I was 4 in 1992.

[@JoshuaNyhus]

I swear I see the back of my family's heads in this. Oldskool. Would love to see a show like Hawthorne again. Pretty sure I lost most of my hearing from the old MiG demos.

[@JoshuaNyhus]

Or El Toro. :-(

[@kmd1033]

I grew up going to the El Toro airshows. I remember them well....

[@JoshuaNyhus]

Cheers

[@_Desti_]

I saw literally this MiG in Antonov's museum

[@_Desti_]

Sorry, no. I saw very similar MiG on this museum

[@tomsamuelson8512]

No leading or trailing edge flaps for take-0ff. Just pure POWER...

[@CrazedNovaProduction]

Pretty clean footage for the 90s.

[@luisworld911]

We have a pic of this jet taking of at Hawthorne airport right when it pass the control tower what a good looking airplane

[@superskullmaster]

USAF all the way but that bitch got up quick. That acceleration was nuts.

[@VishNChips]

Wonder why this was here exactly?