Mig-29K dusk take off from aircraft carrier. As seen from the tailhook point of view!

October 10, 2013 Aircraft Carriers

David Cenciotti

As already reported Russian Mig-29K fighter jets are going to operate from INS “Vikramaditya”, the carrier once part of the Soviet Navy, purchased by the Indian Navy in 2004.

The carrier is conducting its final operational tests, including day and night take off and landing practice by a Russian Mig-29K.

New images of the trials have been released, some of those are quite cool as the one showing the takeoff of the naval Fulcrum from the aircraft carrier at dusk taken from a camera located between the engines, on the tailhook.

They remind a famous scene of Top Gun shot from a flying F-14 Tomcat.

Image credit: via Indiandefense.com

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

Seashure says:

October 10, 2013 at 6:31 PM

That’s a very light “night” they have there?
- echomrg says:
  
  October 11, 2013 at 9:47 AM
  
  “showing the takeoff of the naval Fulcrum from the aircraft carrier at *dusk*”
Taggart says:

October 11, 2013 at 6:55 PM

Great, now I have Kenny Loggins’ song “Danger Zone” stuck in my head…