this particular aircraft is 42 years old, but the catapults worked perfectly, they were able to save both pilots. I was a little surprised that the pilots did not try to take the plane away from residential buildings before ejecting, but I'm still glad that no one was injured.
@@ivanlevchenko1561 this is usually movie or News stuff. The pilot in an emergency is already more that overwhelmed trying to survive, let alone trying to steer a _disabled_ aircraft to an unpopulated area. And where do we find unpopulated areas nowadays? Not to mention that the path of an abandoned aircraft is virtually unpredictable. A few even flew through several countries after the pilot ejected; remember the Belgian Mig-23 incident in 1989 or the _Luftwaffe_ F-104 whose pilot fell unconscious after departing from Bremen and flew on to end up crashing in Norway. It's a question of luck, or bad luck. In this case they were lucky in that they ejected in a benign attitude, and I'm sure that the seats were well inspected and maintained. I was ATCo all my adult life, in Portugal, LPCS. One April 2017 day a Piper Comanche, HB-LTI took off bound to Marseille, four on board and fuel accordingly. The nr 1 PT-6 turbine failed just after departure. The aircraft appeared to try to turn back, sunk further, nosedived and crashed before my eyes. It crashed right next to a shopping mall and a lorry driver was killed, as all those on board. The jet fuel fire was so intense that only a stainless steel prothesis belonging to the pilot was all that was recovered from the two couples on board. Really sad. The cause of the stoppage could never be ascertained, there was actually nothing in the wreckage worth a deeper examination, such was the fire. Jet fuel burns extremely hot. By the way, are you Ukrainian, Ivan _Levchenko?_ Slava Ukrainiy! Slava 3CY! 💪😀
@@ivanlevchenko1561there's a popular Soviet song about (true story of) a similar plane that'd exhibited a catastrophic malfunction where the pilots had a choice of either safely ejecting or guiding the sick bird out of the residential area and into a lake. They chose the latter. th-cam.com/video/PJYhEuF4d7I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VPXAFD3Y0q7UreTN
Any jet. You realize how fast they get ejected. That's why. Any pilet. Has to ditch. Back isues. Lot of force on spine n back. I'm happy they are safe.
In Europe, maybe. But in the US the FAA appears to be far more realistic and pragmatic regarding the need to maintain workable ejection seats in privately owned warplanes. I bet if you tried to buy and maintain a Alpha Jet or a L-39 in Europe, the red tape would be unsurmontable, except in UK. I live in Europe. 🇵🇹 .
The FAA doesn't like civilian owned aircraft to have ejection seats, even ex military aircraft but since the MIG-23 is a single engine aircraft it's considered essential so they're allowed to keep them in working order in them.
Как вам удается поддерживать все системы в рабочем состоянии??? Это потрясающе! Я служил на этих самолетах в советских ВВС, поэтому понимаю какой гигантский труд стоит за каждым полетом. Снимаю шляпу перед вашей энергией и знаниями. Храни вас Бог!
the blue cockpit isn't made to have a "calming effect", in fact it's to put less strain on the eyes when switching between looking out of the cockpit, at the sky, and inside the cockpit.
@Gatt Mawer , Never knew that. It does make sense. I always thought of it as Soviet turquoise, or Mig turquoise. Sounds like there is some science behind that choice of colore.
( Respectfully ) Do you have a source for this information ? I notice Soviet jets also use a lot of turquoise in areas such as the wheels, and even some early jets ( Su-15 comes to mind ) had the entire radome painted in turquoise or a really gaudy shiny green enamel.
@@O-cDxA the colors on fighters jets radomes is owed to paints made not to interfere with the ongoing and incoming radio signals. this is why most planes have it painted different with the rest. On the su-15, it was a sort of olive green, had nothing to do with the cockpit color. abt the wheels, i don't know. as for sources, perhaps you should ask the ppl in the vid about sources on the "calming effect", which for anyone with some experience in aviation themes rly sounds stupid. Not to mention they say a lot of other stupid things I'd expect from amateurs (for ex: the wing root cone "being empty", actually it contained the guidance antenna for a type of missile, which obviously wasn't included in a demilitarized aircraft sold to civilians)
Yeah and part was because of production costs. For example, nearly all the Soviet Zil trucks had the same color. Aside from the army Zil trucks. It was easier to manufacture the color on a larger scale. In the soviet union there were only colors like red, white, yellow and black available for the cars. Black cars were 99% of time KGB cars. The Zil trucks had basically the same color pattern than the interior of the planes.
Cool video! Some notes: The yaw indicator is not the same as the F-14's string. That string is just a simple visual indicator, but that flap on the top of the nose of the MiG-23 is a yaw sensor of the autopilot. It is a small electro-mechanical device. The container in the right leading edge is the built-in Delta-NM pod, for the Kh-23 AG missiles. The main landing gear designer was not "he", but "she". That lady earned a Lenin-award for that outstanding design job. Which was a quite big thing in the Sovietunion at that time.
@@JMiskovsky Yes, it is. Asymmetrical as all pods in all jets around the world. Not a big deal, just check the latest and greates Sniper pod on the fancy F-16. And the Lantrin, Litening, Sniper pods are way bigger and heavier than this tiny, conical antenna.
@@Mrskydoesminecraft1 fist light was made in 1967, and yes US gov and USSR even in 70 were still in confrontations. And kids born in 50s are still think that all russians are communist scums.
This looks like one of the Bulgarian 23s which was destined for demolishing as part of requirements to join NATO. Most of the 90 planes were cut down, only couple got saved and ended up in museums or private hands.
Glad to hear that everyone made it out ok in the accident today! and many thanks to Erik Johnson for this video so we all can appreciate the finer details of the plane before it was loss forever… RIP MIG-23
Although he brings a lot of BS about intakes (they are not reverse engineered intakes from F-4, and actually have very little in common), he know nothing about container on the wing (actually it is houses antenna wich was removed when the plane was disarmed) and etc.
My dad helped design the intakes of the F-4 at MIT. This is one the best informative aircraft videos I ever seen. There's hardly any walkaround and cockpit video about Russian cold war era aircraft, well done comrade!!👍👋😁🇷🇺
@@behindthen0thing and I did...and he was wrong,as he was rectified in the comment section prior to that,as well as another part a he did not know what they were about space above weapon station (P.S. he was even thankful for being corrected,but the video,sadly,was not corrected) . But please,do correct those that actually know what they are talking about
It is such a strange feeling to see this jet in person at Oshkosh and then to find out it's no longer with us. I wondered if they maintained the ejection seats and now we have the answer. Glad everything worked out.
The 25:07 for main reasons why Russian use this shade of green is that it does not create residual picture in your eyes. You can look freely in cockpit and outside and you don't get it like you get with grey/black cockpits. It as well helps to keep pilots wake on long flights, and it is more stress free environment to operate in a high stress situations. This is the same reason why surgeons wear such colored clothing and operation rooms, hospital rooms and hallways etc are painted with the similar colors. How many of you have worked in a dark room? Like a bar? It is very stressful and tiring. If you would paint your home with black or dark grey, you would very soon start to feel uncomfortable and in a fast decision making situations you have difficulties to operate properly and harder time to focus on the task. The dark colors increase the requirements for amount of training and repetition of to overcome these same challenges that Soviets overcame by the science to help pilots to work more effectively and learn better. It is not just "make less stressful environment" but really help to maintain vision and be able quickly glance things. At 26:25 the stick red button is not to release bombs, but to turn off the autopilot. The main trigger (as a handgun) is for overriding autopilot, so as long you squeeze it, the autopilot is disabled for you to maneuver and then when you release it, the attitude and mode are registered and maintained. It makes the aircraft fly easily without using stick. The top right corner white button (right of the trim hat) is the Autopilot Level Flight. That is the default mode that pilot use. You just press it and the system will very effectively take you to level flight and maintain the heading and altitude. It is as well the "emergency button" that when you are losing control of the aircraft for G-loc or other reason, you just press it and it saves you. The system works such way that it use the radar altimeter to range you to 1500 meters where it will level you if you are at low level. So it just doesn't put you on level flight but flies you above the terrain for save altitude as well, it was their "terrain avoidance system" that worked excellent manner. This is why you need to pull the trigger to overcome the AP to maneuver and in combat, landing etc you press red button to turn AP mode Off. There are couple other AP modes like one for landing that makes heavily dampening input so it is easy to land as it requires large stick movements instead small, and then there are those intercept, low-altitude and such modes. Basically the MiG-23 is automated manned drone. Pilot doesn't need to do more than take-off and land. The autopilot flies through the planned flight route all the way from take-off to 50 meters altitude from the ground when landing. So in the final phase pilot needs to perform the landing. In the early variants the pilot saw the GCI intercept guidance commands below the HUD in various symbols, later it was made to the HUD. And the GCI can take control of the aircraft and input the intercept for the AP and it takes aircraft to it. GCI can as well turn radar On or Off and return the aircraft back to base. But pilot can override these at any given moment, what did the MiG-25 deflector do.
That "purposeless" thing above the weapon station on the right wing, it seems, had a purpose after all. I tried to find some info about it and I'm pretty sure it's a system called "Delta-NG" which would send radio signals in order to control the flight of the rocket Kh-23 (in Russian, Х-23) or, as NATO named it, AS-7 "Kerry". Just as the two-seater plane doesn't have a radar, the "Delta-NG" could have been also excluded from it. That's why the shell of the device is empty on this plane (I assume it is).
11:33 - Yes, they did operate it from unpaved runways (not grass, but dirt, as it would easily bear the weight of the MiG, even when it was fully laden), for example, in Angola.
I like it's lines, much smaller then I expected. But man oh man did you have to pick out the rattiest one? It looks like every panel has dents and is starving for a little tlc.
I love the thing with the little pod that does nothing but was made to mess with intelligence people, russian engineers messing with american engineers lmao
#1 the intro was hilarious! #2 this video was almost as good and informative as the A-10 video you did! #3 I was disappointed that you weren’t able to capture the MIG in flight.
I was living near the military airbase during Soviet period and these birds were taking off and landing kinda every day for 3 or 4 hours. They flew very low above my house and I should say that form back side it looks like a barrel of fuel with fire coming from it and two small wings on its sides. It was pretty scary! And the sound of engines was tremendously loud especially when a jet was not allowed to land and had to make an afterburner climb. The windows glasses in my house were rattling like they were about to break.
First of all outstanding video, thank you very much for sharing such a close encounter with this beautiful bird. A few things to correct, the space between the inlet and the fuselage is not related to F4 at all, its intended to provide ram air for cooling avionics and the cockpit also to alow the inlet ramp control system to work under optimal conditions. The thing in the wing glove is most likely for the guidance antena for Kh-23 AG missile wich is like a Bullpup radio CLOS weapon, you can also find that in MiG-23 BN wich is a pure fighter-bomber variant. Again this is GREAT!!!! Thank you very much.
nods, the Soviets wouldn't install a purely cosmetic fairing. What went in there no doubt was removed before delivery to the west, or earlier when its function became redundant.
Да, потом технарь в куртке с американским флагом испортил всё впечатление от такого потрясающего начала. Как говорится просто взял и kill enjoyment. 🤷♂️
I think because despite how common it was/still is...Its kinda the worst of the mass produced miss for its respective era...It came at a time were it stood little chance. It came at a time were it was one of the best, but in 1970 one of the best was obsolete in just a few years with F-14s and F-15s coming along...So the Mig-21 got its place in the history books for its era, but as it got older the 23 to replace it just came at a time were it quickly became obsolete, and the fears of the Mig-25 which ended up not being as capable as the west feared was in the limelight, then the mig-29 totally overshadowed the 23, being how the 23 was good as a gen 3 but was born right in the gen 4s era
Про цвет интерьера в кабине сказал весело))) Ему надо было включить ночной режим подсветки кабины. Подсветка красным цветом. Вся кабина ночью становится серой и видны все параметры приборов и надписи. Вот почему кабина зеленого цвета. He said something funny about the color of the interior in the cabin))) He needed to turn on the night mode of the cabin lighting. Red backlight. The entire cabin turns gray at night and all instrument parameters and inscriptions are visible. That's why the cabin is green.
I will tell you an unbelievable story how I flew in that particular model of a plane when I was 8 years old . I was born in Moscow, USSR, and my uncle was stationed about 200 miles south, in the town of Ryazhsk, Ryazan district. The town was closed to civilians, except for relatives. Before my dad went on a hunting trip with my uncle, he promised that he would make me a pilot. Next early morning, about 4 am, I ended up in Mig-23 in the back seat. There was no pressure suit. I was strapped by a what I think was a drunk technician. Nevertheless, we made it. To make the story short, I became a figure skater, then a skydiver, then a construction engineer. But to this day I remember that flight. Thank you, and God bless.
@@PugilistCactus Russians themselves used it effectively. It's the arabs that couldn't. And then later the degraded export models had to try to contend with next-gen F-15 and F-16. Russia-only MiG-23MLD and MLA managed to get close enough to make it a close fight, at least with an F-16.
@@michaelbevan3285 Thanks Michael. Although I'm a US navy vet and a patriotic fellow I don't share the contempt a lot of people have for Soviet aircraft. Russian design engineers were often innovative and even today Russian aircraft have flight and design features that are well in keeping with US and European military aircraft.
What a legendary jet. The landing gear design alone is absolutely genius and looks badass. I love how in the close up shots you can see the metal work and its got a kind of "home made" feel, al hammered together in the field. I mean that in a good way. Its got a tough workman like feel about it. I like that its not all clean, neat , pretty and refined like western combat jets. There seems to be zero ergonomics in the cockpit design, gauges all over the place tucked into corners and stuff. I saw another version of this once - the MiG27. Looks like a duck! This one looks much nicer!
Beautiful plane, seems like it was owned by the Bulgarian Air Force in its military days. My uncle used to guard the ordinance for such planes when he was a conscript for the Bulgarian People's Army.
Fascinating! I had the opportunity to sit in a MiG-23BN. That was the fighter-bomber version; it had a duck bill nose without radar that was optimised for air-ground missions. It's interesting to see how similar the cockpit is to the BN model. Thanks, Lt. Comdr. Filer!
Very interesting tour sir, and thank you for acknowledging our contribution to the evolution of supersonic flight in the shape of the all-moving tailplane.
The pod on the wing @ 8:40 was for the Delta-N guidance link used by Kh-23 air-to-ground missiles (basically a Soviet AGM-12 Bullpup). Probably got removed when it was demilitarised/imported. The later variants got rid of the inbuilt pod and carried one on one of the two ventral side pylons instead. The black pressure sensor on the stick is how you guide it, it's an MCLOS missile; on the single seaters it also controlled seeker head slaving for the IR missiles in close combat, I believe. Big red button on the stick logically seems like a pickle button to anyone used to western jets, but is actually the autopilot master disconnect button, and the one on the other side of the trim switch to it is the autopilot "recover to level flight" button/panic button.
Dan agreed to shoot a flying demonstration video of it but I need to raise enough money to cover the fuel which is about $3,200 for an hour of flight time. We might explore that at sometime
@@ErikJohnston perhaps some kind of patreon or or set up something specific donation? On the condition you get a ride in the back seat with a camera and have somebody on the ground taking video as well! And yes I would happily donate $$$ to see this terrific bird do a full afterburner takeoff!
Thank you so much for posting this and thanks to the pilot who owns this wonderful bird. It's very rare and hard to find video of a privately owned mig-23 fighter
Russian fighters have always fascinated me since my childhood days. Never got a chance to get closer to this aircraft, but this video has done the need full!! I don't think there are any walk around vid of any russian fighter covered in such great depth. Loved specially the engine start up in the end. Thanks for uploading such an informative video!! Great job👍👍
“Flogger” (NATO name for the mig-23) is one of the more badass nicknames we gave to a Russian fighter jet, there aren’t a lot of these around anymore, I’m pretty sure only one country has a working fleet, thanks for making this so the flogger may see the light of day again!
Most of us would love to fly an A320, but Dan does that to pay the bills. This is his passion. I was going to say he's a lucky man, but it's not luck. It's the result of many years of hard work & dedication.
Great video, really great! But I'm not sure that you're quite right, when talking about that cutters at 6:00. I think they were made like that intentionally. From the very start of MiG-23 project in the 1960s, there were actually plans to make a naval fighter MiG-23A for an 1160-project carriers. 1160 were to be a "classic" carriers with somewhat 60-70 jets. But later Admiral Sergei "Only Submarines Matter" Gorshkov and Nikita "Lets Put Missiles Everywhere" Khrushchev decided to build Kiev-class "semi-cruiser uncarriers" armed with 16 Ka-27 helicopters, 12 Yak-38 VTOLs and LOTS of missiles.
@@СергейБезрукавный-с4н I'm American and you guys have always made fascinating and terrific planes! This was a terrific treat to see as were used to our own planes. Happy New Year to you from usa!
Thank you so much for your video! This is so great, when people from different countries can talk about their aircraft with respect to each other! Thank you so much again! Let our jets will meet only during air shows as products of progress, not of war!
See the following video. The USAF were operating MiG-23s along with other MiGs for evaluation/training during the 1970s and 1980s. th-cam.com/video/BayjAFra_6U/w-d-xo.html
Soviet Union = Russia Kind of like: UK = England General Motors = Chevrolet Internet = World Wide Web Rat Pack = Frankie, Deano, and Sammy. Nobody much cares about the other stuff.
This was so good that I had to pause it on my TV (not logged into YT there) and come and find it on my machine that's logged in just to like the video. Well done.
Nice one! I met in Thailand a Russian retired engineer officer, we have a long talk about planes of that era, he told me that the Mig-23/27 landing gear was a real pain in the *ss to maintain and service. Hardest than any type he worked with. My only real view of this plane was back in 2005 in Belgrade airport, they had a place near by, something between a scrapyard and a museum, and they had Mig-21s, Mig-23s and more! Really glad to see these legends that time.
Probably designed by the same guy who designed the convertible top for the 60's Lincoln Continental, you wanna talk about something complicated, 14 relays and 7 motors involved, one of the worst things I've ever had to fix on an automobile.
Great . I was involved in building one of these aircraft in the 1970s, it was a 1/72 scale version, I never could get the wings to extend smoothly! I have a watch I bought from one of the crew of the "Bear" in the 90s that has the "Flogger" on it!
RIP 8107... Glad the pilots made it out. Hopefully no injuries on the ground there in Michigan.
I was at the airshow today and saw it go down. Pretty scary stuff especially because from where I was I could not see the ejection seats punch out.
very glad to hear the pilots are safe and no one on the ground was hurt 🙏🏻🙏🏻
It was heart breaking watching it fall out of the sky during the airshow today. Glad everyone made it out okay.
this particular aircraft is 42 years old, but the catapults worked perfectly, they were able to save both pilots. I was a little surprised that the pilots did not try to take the plane away from residential buildings before ejecting, but I'm still glad that no one was injured.
@@ivanlevchenko1561 Rumor is they lost all control/hydraulics. But there probably is more redundance than that
@@ivanlevchenko1561 this is usually movie or News stuff. The pilot in an emergency is already more that overwhelmed trying to survive, let alone trying to steer a _disabled_ aircraft to an unpopulated area. And where do we find unpopulated areas nowadays? Not to mention that the path of an abandoned aircraft is virtually unpredictable. A few even flew through several countries after the pilot ejected; remember the Belgian Mig-23 incident in 1989 or the _Luftwaffe_ F-104 whose pilot fell unconscious after departing from Bremen and flew on to end up crashing in Norway. It's a question of luck, or bad luck. In this case they were lucky in that they ejected in a benign attitude, and I'm sure that the seats were well inspected and maintained.
I was ATCo all my adult life, in Portugal, LPCS. One April 2017 day a Piper Comanche, HB-LTI took off bound to Marseille, four on board and fuel accordingly. The nr 1 PT-6 turbine failed just after departure. The aircraft appeared to try to turn back, sunk further, nosedived and crashed before my eyes. It crashed right next to a shopping mall and a lorry driver was killed, as all those on board. The jet fuel fire was so intense that only a stainless steel prothesis belonging to the pilot was all that was recovered from the two couples on board. Really sad.
The cause of the stoppage could never be ascertained, there was actually nothing in the wreckage worth a deeper examination, such was the fire. Jet fuel burns extremely hot.
By the way, are you Ukrainian, Ivan _Levchenko?_ Slava Ukrainiy! Slava 3CY! 💪😀
I’m glad they survived and that no one got hurt, but I am upset that this beautiful piece of history was just wiped out of existence 😢
@@ivanlevchenko1561there's a popular Soviet song about (true story of) a similar plane that'd exhibited a catastrophic malfunction where the pilots had a choice of either safely ejecting or guiding the sick bird out of the residential area and into a lake. They chose the latter.
th-cam.com/video/PJYhEuF4d7I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VPXAFD3Y0q7UreTN
“This is an aftermarket antenna”
This mans talking about a MiG-23 like a JDM imported car.
Its SDM "Soviet Domestic Market"... I wonder if there's some 12 years old SU-57 and Mig-25 Fanboys
@@celisrusticarlchristians.6586 Mig-24 ????
@@jawadnawas7504 I mean Mig 25... my bad
Soviet and Russian radio systems have a different frequency range than the US. So they replaced the radio with a compatible aftermarket antenna.
@@avsarrr Oh okay, just seemed like he was talking about it so casually, like its an imported car mod.
That was fascinating. I'm surprised this had working ejection seats. For some reason I thought civilian-owned aircraft couldn't have those enabled.
Russian seats saved lives
Any jet. You realize how fast they get ejected. That's why. Any pilet. Has to ditch. Back isues. Lot of force on spine n back. I'm happy they are safe.
In Europe, maybe. But in the US the FAA appears to be far more realistic and pragmatic regarding the need to maintain workable ejection seats in privately owned warplanes. I bet if you tried to buy and maintain a Alpha Jet or a L-39 in Europe, the red tape would be unsurmontable, except in UK.
I live in Europe. 🇵🇹
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The FAA doesn't like civilian owned aircraft to have ejection seats, even ex military aircraft but since the MIG-23 is a single engine aircraft it's considered essential so they're allowed to keep them in working order in them.
Как вам удается поддерживать все системы в рабочем состоянии??? Это потрясающе! Я служил на этих самолетах в советских ВВС, поэтому понимаю какой гигантский труд стоит за каждым полетом. Снимаю шляпу перед вашей энергией и знаниями. Храни вас Бог!
the blue cockpit isn't made to have a "calming effect", in fact it's to put less strain on the eyes when switching between looking out of the cockpit, at the sky, and inside the cockpit.
@Gatt Mawer , Never knew that. It does make sense.
I always thought of it as Soviet turquoise, or Mig turquoise. Sounds like there is some science behind that choice of colore.
@@trespire nice, and hello recent person!
( Respectfully ) Do you have a source for this information ? I notice Soviet jets also use a lot of turquoise in areas such as the wheels, and even some early jets ( Su-15 comes to mind ) had the entire radome painted in turquoise or a really gaudy shiny green enamel.
@@O-cDxA the colors on fighters jets radomes is owed to paints made not to interfere with the ongoing and incoming radio signals. this is why most planes have it painted different with the rest. On the su-15, it was a sort of olive green, had nothing to do with the cockpit color. abt the wheels, i don't know. as for sources, perhaps you should ask the ppl in the vid about sources on the "calming effect", which for anyone with some experience in aviation themes rly sounds stupid. Not to mention they say a lot of other stupid things I'd expect from amateurs (for ex: the wing root cone "being empty", actually it contained the guidance antenna for a type of missile, which obviously wasn't included in a demilitarized aircraft sold to civilians)
Yeah and part was because of production costs. For example, nearly all the Soviet Zil trucks had the same color. Aside from the army Zil trucks. It was easier to manufacture the color on a larger scale. In the soviet union there were only colors like red, white, yellow and black available for the cars. Black cars were 99% of time KGB cars. The Zil trucks had basically the same color pattern than the interior of the planes.
Cool video! Some notes: The yaw indicator is not the same as the F-14's string. That string is just a simple visual indicator, but that flap on the top of the nose of the MiG-23 is a yaw sensor of the autopilot. It is a small electro-mechanical device. The container in the right leading edge is the built-in Delta-NM pod, for the Kh-23 AG missiles. The main landing gear designer was not "he", but "she". That lady earned a Lenin-award for that outstanding design job. Which was a quite big thing in the Sovietunion at that time.
Well, she sure knew what to do with the legs!
Great reply! Thanks
That is so interesting! Thank you so much for sharing that information. It’s always cool to keep learning from everybody as they watch the video
Is it asymmetrical? Is there right pod?
@@JMiskovsky Yes, it is. Asymmetrical as all pods in all jets around the world. Not a big deal, just check the latest and greates Sniper pod on the fancy F-16. And the Lantrin, Litening, Sniper pods are way bigger and heavier than this tiny, conical antenna.
It should have red stars on his wings. But I can imagine what residents (from the 50s) would think of looking at russian cold war plane flying by.
The MiG-23 is from the 70s not the 50s, the primary Russian fighters in the 50s were things like the MiG-15, 17, and 19.
@@Mrskydoesminecraft1 fist light was made in 1967, and yes US gov and USSR even in 70 were still in confrontations. And kids born in 50s are still think that all russians are communist scums.
But they're fine with the Confederate one? LOL; Just joking.
It is ex Czech air force plane BTW :-)
@@janzeman8341 from major Zeman? :)))
" I just happen to acquire this one a few years ago"
.... as you do
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Did he pay the gold price or the iron price?
This looks like one of the Bulgarian 23s which was destined for demolishing as part of requirements to join NATO.
Most of the 90 planes were cut down, only couple got saved and ended up in museums or private hands.
Glad to hear that everyone made it out ok in the accident today! and many thanks to Erik Johnson for this video so we all can appreciate the finer details of the plane before it was loss forever…
RIP MIG-23
RIP Mig 23. What a sad loss of a unique aircraft.
Spock said "fascinating"!😳
Jman
There are many more MiG-23s on the market
Listening to this guy is absolutely fantastic. He obviously loves flying and his little quips are wholesome af. Good on this guy!
Although he brings a lot of BS about intakes (they are not reverse engineered intakes from F-4, and actually have very little in common), he know nothing about container on the wing (actually it is houses antenna wich was removed when the plane was disarmed) and etc.
@@random3362 You also own a private MIG 24 to say he knows nothing? Cmon, this is a pretty nice guy
It's a MiG-23.
What is your problem? If you don't like the video, then make one of your own.
Слава богу, что пилоты живы.🙏Очень печально потерять этот самолет, но он остался навсегда c нами в этом замечательном видео.
Only thing that ever worked correctly. Yep..
We have some left in India
My dad helped design the intakes of the F-4 at MIT. This is one the best informative aircraft videos I ever seen. There's hardly any walkaround and cockpit video about Russian cold war era aircraft, well done comrade!!👍👋😁🇷🇺
Yeah! He even knows the number of holes 1.060.... Awesome!😁
yet F4 fuselage and intake have nothing to do with MiG-23...as explained by commentator above.
@@nikolaivasilev7371 the миг23 has the same intakes as an f4 . You'd know that if you watched the video
@@behindthen0thing and I did...and he was wrong,as he was rectified in the comment section prior to that,as well as another part a he did not know what they were about space above weapon station (P.S. he was even thankful for being corrected,but the video,sadly,was not corrected) . But please,do correct those that actually know what they are talking about
@@nikolaivasilev7371 he wasn't wrong he said that the intakes are a direct copy of the F-4 Phantom..start it @4:56
8 лет отлетал на МиГ-23млд и МиГ-23п. Превосходная машина.
Добрый вечер,Вячеслав!Говорят,сложная машина была в управлении?
Всё зависит от режима полёта, угла стреловидности крыла и подвесок. На пилотаже в управлении лёгок во всём диапазоне скоростей.
Спасибо!
Тhe Russian pilot says that he flew on the same plane for 8 years and he liked it very much (excellent plane says).
Это самолёт получше некоторых современных будет
It is such a strange feeling to see this jet in person at Oshkosh and then to find out it's no longer with us. I wondered if they maintained the ejection seats and now we have the answer. Glad everything worked out.
The 25:07 for main reasons why Russian use this shade of green is that it does not create residual picture in your eyes.
You can look freely in cockpit and outside and you don't get it like you get with grey/black cockpits.
It as well helps to keep pilots wake on long flights, and it is more stress free environment to operate in a high stress situations.
This is the same reason why surgeons wear such colored clothing and operation rooms, hospital rooms and hallways etc are painted with the similar colors.
How many of you have worked in a dark room? Like a bar? It is very stressful and tiring.
If you would paint your home with black or dark grey, you would very soon start to feel uncomfortable and in a fast decision making situations you have difficulties to operate properly and harder time to focus on the task. The dark colors increase the requirements for amount of training and repetition of to overcome these same challenges that Soviets overcame by the science to help pilots to work more effectively and learn better.
It is not just "make less stressful environment" but really help to maintain vision and be able quickly glance things.
At 26:25 the stick red button is not to release bombs, but to turn off the autopilot.
The main trigger (as a handgun) is for overriding autopilot, so as long you squeeze it, the autopilot is disabled for you to maneuver and then when you release it, the attitude and mode are registered and maintained. It makes the aircraft fly easily without using stick.
The top right corner white button (right of the trim hat) is the Autopilot Level Flight. That is the default mode that pilot use. You just press it and the system will very effectively take you to level flight and maintain the heading and altitude. It is as well the "emergency button" that when you are losing control of the aircraft for G-loc or other reason, you just press it and it saves you.
The system works such way that it use the radar altimeter to range you to 1500 meters where it will level you if you are at low level. So it just doesn't put you on level flight but flies you above the terrain for save altitude as well, it was their "terrain avoidance system" that worked excellent manner. This is why you need to pull the trigger to overcome the AP to maneuver and in combat, landing etc you press red button to turn AP mode Off. There are couple other AP modes like one for landing that makes heavily dampening input so it is easy to land as it requires large stick movements instead small, and then there are those intercept, low-altitude and such modes.
Basically the MiG-23 is automated manned drone. Pilot doesn't need to do more than take-off and land. The autopilot flies through the planned flight route all the way from take-off to 50 meters altitude from the ground when landing. So in the final phase pilot needs to perform the landing.
In the early variants the pilot saw the GCI intercept guidance commands below the HUD in various symbols, later it was made to the HUD. And the GCI can take control of the aircraft and input the intercept for the AP and it takes aircraft to it. GCI can as well turn radar On or Off and return the aircraft back to base. But pilot can override these at any given moment, what did the MiG-25 deflector do.
The pointed protrusion under the wing glove was meant to house guidance equipment for the Kh-23 Grom / AS-7 Kerry missile.
Thanks that makes since
Thank you.
It has designation "Delta N".
When the War Thunder update also updates my recommendations on TH-cam
lmao
@@jmax8692 sounds like a skill issue to me
Chooses to ignore the sad and sick dark truth about reality and makes dumb purchases on a pointless game…
@@societyisntworthsaving590 excuse me ?
@@markusdupree5317 you saw what I said people choose to ignore reality
Damn this is awesome definitely was not expecting to see a Mig-23 on here
Yeah this kinda happened on a short notice compared to some of the other videos. Sure glad you liked it though. Thanks for watching!!
Still can’t believe that guy put his mad lad cap on and purchased a MiG-23!
That "purposeless" thing above the weapon station on the right wing, it seems, had a purpose after all.
I tried to find some info about it and I'm pretty sure it's a system called "Delta-NG" which would send radio signals in order to control the flight of the rocket Kh-23 (in Russian, Х-23) or, as NATO named it, AS-7 "Kerry".
Just as the two-seater plane doesn't have a radar, the "Delta-NG" could have been also excluded from it. That's why the shell of the device is empty on this plane (I assume it is).
Just noticed that a user "kolbola"
has already commented on it and the video's author has acknowledged that.
11:33 - Yes, they did operate it from unpaved runways (not grass, but dirt, as it would easily bear the weight of the MiG, even when it was fully laden), for example, in Angola.
MiG-23 has the coolest landing gears!
Sweet Cold War jet.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!!
@@ErikJohnston I'm new here so forgive me for the newbie question... Do you privately own the MIG 23.
@@ErikJohnston but why American stole mig 25 with the help of Japan
I like it's lines, much smaller then I expected. But man oh man did you have to pick out the rattiest one? It looks like every panel has dents and is starving for a little tlc.
@@joriskylie6857 that's what aircraft look like. This isn't ratty at all
Respect for soviet engineers. We tend to not give the "commie" engineers any credit in the states.
I love the thing with the little pod that does nothing but was made to mess with intelligence people, russian engineers messing with american engineers lmao
Not all Russians were "commies".
@@antoniomontana9430 And the definition of "communist" is still unknown to most US citizens.
the whole coldwar thing was about giving them credits in all type military things. you must be in a weird part of the State.
Well but remember this, unions soviets technology was influenced by Germans, they kept a lot of engineering from them
#1 the intro was hilarious!
#2 this video was almost as good and informative as the A-10 video you did!
#3 I was disappointed that you weren’t able to capture the MIG in flight.
th-cam.com/video/hW_ujVX4a-0/w-d-xo.html There you go.
I was living near the military airbase during Soviet period and these birds were taking off and landing kinda every day for 3 or 4 hours. They flew very low above my house and I should say that form back side it looks like a barrel of fuel with fire coming from it and two small wings on its sides. It was pretty scary! And the sound of engines was tremendously loud especially when a jet was not allowed to land and had to make an afterburner climb. The windows glasses in my house were rattling like they were about to break.
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Which base?
@@miamitrancemissions6425 Tiraspol
First of all outstanding video, thank you very much for sharing such a close encounter with this beautiful bird. A few things to correct, the space between the inlet and the fuselage is not related to F4 at all, its intended to provide ram air for cooling avionics and the cockpit also to alow the inlet ramp control system to work under optimal conditions. The thing in the wing glove is most likely for the guidance antena for Kh-23 AG missile wich is like a Bullpup radio CLOS weapon, you can also find that in MiG-23 BN wich is a pure fighter-bomber variant. Again this is GREAT!!!! Thank you very much.
Awesome! Thanks for that additional info on those systems. It’s always cool to keep learning from everyone
nods, the Soviets wouldn't install a purely cosmetic fairing. What went in there no doubt was removed before delivery to the west, or earlier when its function became redundant.
Вначале английский был бесподобным!Прямо душу полили медом
😃🤣
Звучало прям как в голивудских фильмах про холодную войну, где все были Иванами в ушанках.
Да, потом технарь в куртке с американским флагом испортил всё впечатление от такого потрясающего начала. Как говорится просто взял и kill enjoyment. 🤷♂️
Я просмотрел видео 56 000 раз, чтобы увидеть первую минуту!
как у того марсианского колхозника-,,Фрактал кукумбер!,,
"Hello, Discount tire"
"Ya hi, I need some tires for a MIG 23"
In stock - but you have to pay in Rubles.... comrade.
Ask putin
@@somdattsable5540 nice mockery
Not in limited stock. MiG-23's are known for poor build quality all the way down to the engine. Tonnes of spare parts out there.
@@Engulfing_Darkness No seriously, ask Putin. Russia would be more than happy to offload whats left of the MiG-23 stockpile.
The 2 seater looks way cooler than the single. RIP Beautiful
I have NEVER seen a walkaround of an operational MIG 23 ever in my life. THIS WAS A REAL TREAT! Thanks! 🤘😎🤘
I think because despite how common it was/still is...Its kinda the worst of the mass produced miss for its respective era...It came at a time were it stood little chance. It came at a time were it was one of the best, but in 1970 one of the best was obsolete in just a few years with F-14s and F-15s coming along...So the Mig-21 got its place in the history books for its era, but as it got older the 23 to replace it just came at a time were it quickly became obsolete, and the fears of the Mig-25 which ended up not being as capable as the west feared was in the limelight, then the mig-29 totally overshadowed the 23, being how the 23 was good as a gen 3 but was born right in the gen 4s era
Basically it was built to fight the wrong generation and came to late to be "great"
Many thanks, dear friends. You have managed to keep this beautiful aircraft flying. All my childhood was spent near these beautiful aircraft.
Did you mean your parents had it in the backyard?
They're still in active service in places. Angola, Cuba, North Korea and Syria all have active squadrons of MiG 23s.
My respect, for being so careful about military equipment from the Soviet Union!
Про цвет интерьера в кабине сказал весело))) Ему надо было включить ночной режим подсветки кабины. Подсветка красным цветом. Вся кабина ночью становится серой и видны все параметры приборов и надписи. Вот почему кабина зеленого цвета. He said something funny about the color of the interior in the cabin))) He needed to turn on the night mode of the cabin lighting. Red backlight. The entire cabin turns gray at night and all instrument parameters and inscriptions are visible. That's why the cabin is green.
Your english has that strong accent my huskee is now a polar bear.
I mean... It's the SIBERIAN husky after all..
As boys get older their toys get bigger... what a cool toy to have! 🇳🇿
Thank God those guys made it out okay.... Heartbreaking to see this unique beauty going down in a few seconds, just like that...
Rest In Peace, N23UB!
At least the seats worked well
Super video! I applauded for ¥500 👏👏
Excellent documentary. Very brightly, sunny, friendly, and clear.
what a humble guy. Very nice to see such a high quality walk around the cold war era fighter. Thank you
What a beautiful plane it is. I always had a slightly crush on the MiG-23, very good deatailed video about it.
I worked on this plane lake mechanic in 1983 in Česke Budejovice.
At 8:50 - Thats housing for Kh-23 AG missile communication/guidance equipment. Or as its in the US called "nothing" :)
Affirmative. That's the housing for Delta-NM guiding station to control air-to-surface missiles.
I will tell you an unbelievable story how I flew in that particular model of a plane when I was 8 years old . I was born in Moscow, USSR, and my uncle was stationed about 200 miles south, in the town of Ryazhsk, Ryazan district. The town was closed to civilians, except for relatives. Before my dad went on a hunting trip with my uncle, he promised that he would make me a pilot. Next early morning, about 4 am, I ended up in Mig-23 in the back seat. There was no pressure suit. I was strapped by a what I think was a drunk technician. Nevertheless, we made it. To make the story short, I became a figure skater, then a skydiver, then a construction engineer. But to this day I remember that flight. Thank you, and God bless.
Thx for sharing Alex. Привет из Сербии, слава России.
Now that is what I call an excellent way to start a hunting trip! 🤣
For a single engine aircraft this thing had impressive speed.
Too bad the Russian's couldn't use it effectively. Thing had too much shit to pay attention to.
@@PugilistCactus Russians themselves used it effectively. It's the arabs that couldn't. And then later the degraded export models had to try to contend with next-gen F-15 and F-16. Russia-only MiG-23MLD and MLA managed to get close enough to make it a close fight, at least with an F-16.
@@Max_Da_G the South Africans found it a dangerous enemy and the Mirage F1 had trouble matching it.
@@michaelbevan3285 Thanks Michael. Although I'm a US navy vet and a patriotic fellow I don't share the contempt a lot of people have for Soviet aircraft. Russian design engineers were often innovative and even today Russian aircraft have flight and design features that are well in keeping with US and European military aircraft.
@@Max_Da_G no MiG-23 can turn with an F-16! It cant even turn with a Phantom...
What a legendary jet. The landing gear design alone is absolutely genius and looks badass. I love how in the close up shots you can see the metal work and its got a kind of "home made" feel, al hammered together in the field. I mean that in a good way. Its got a tough workman like feel about it. I like that its not all clean, neat , pretty and refined like western combat jets. There seems to be zero ergonomics in the cockpit design, gauges all over the place tucked into corners and stuff.
I saw another version of this once - the MiG27. Looks like a duck! This one looks much nicer!
Beautiful plane, seems like it was owned by the Bulgarian Air Force in its military days.
My uncle used to guard the ordinance for such planes when he was a conscript for the Bulgarian People's Army.
If the number 8107 is original for this plane than its Czechoslovak MIG-23UB. www.valka.cz/MiG-23U-8107-t53011
and of course afther 1993 its belong to Czhech airforce.
Fascinating! I had the opportunity to sit in a MiG-23BN. That was the fighter-bomber version; it had a duck bill nose without radar that was optimised for air-ground missions. It's interesting to see how similar the cockpit is to the BN model. Thanks, Lt. Comdr. Filer!
A fantastic demo of this precious Soviet fighter aircraft. 😊👌👌
Wow, man. This is a wonderful machine. Congratulations and happy flying!
Very interesting tour sir, and thank you for acknowledging our contribution to the evolution of supersonic flight in the shape of the all-moving tailplane.
The pod on the wing @ 8:40 was for the Delta-N guidance link used by Kh-23 air-to-ground missiles (basically a Soviet AGM-12 Bullpup). Probably got removed when it was demilitarised/imported. The later variants got rid of the inbuilt pod and carried one on one of the two ventral side pylons instead. The black pressure sensor on the stick is how you guide it, it's an MCLOS missile; on the single seaters it also controlled seeker head slaving for the IR missiles in close combat, I believe. Big red button on the stick logically seems like a pickle button to anyone used to western jets, but is actually the autopilot master disconnect button, and the one on the other side of the trim switch to it is the autopilot "recover to level flight" button/panic button.
good pilots could put the "kerry" missile into cave entrances in the Afghan war.
Imagine the squawk coming into LAX on a clear day in a "private" tail numbered Soviet fighter LOL
Gread vid. Hope you plan to show more of this. Want to hear more about flying the thing also.
Dan agreed to shoot a flying demonstration video of it but I need to raise enough money to cover the fuel which is about $3,200 for an hour of flight time. We might explore that at sometime
@@ErikJohnston yo can raise a bit of this money on line!
@@ErikJohnston perhaps some kind of patreon or or set up something specific donation? On the condition you get a ride in the back seat with a camera and have somebody on the ground taking video as well! And yes I would happily donate $$$ to see this terrific bird do a full afterburner takeoff!
Super video! I applauded for $2.00 👏
Thanks so much! I sure appreciate your support
Thank you so much for posting this and thanks to the pilot who owns this wonderful bird. It's very rare and hard to find video of a privately owned mig-23 fighter
Russian fighters have always fascinated me since my childhood days. Never got a chance to get closer to this aircraft, but this video has done the need full!! I don't think there are any walk around vid of any russian fighter covered in such great depth. Loved specially the engine start up in the end. Thanks for uploading such an informative video!! Great job👍👍
“Flogger” (NATO name for the mig-23) is one of the more badass nicknames we gave to a Russian fighter jet, there aren’t a lot of these around anymore, I’m pretty sure only one country has a working fleet, thanks for making this so the flogger may see the light of day again!
In India we have them they are retired thought but are preserved
Most of us would love to fly an A320, but Dan does that to pay the bills. This is his passion. I was going to say he's a lucky man, but it's not luck. It's the result of many years of hard work & dedication.
we are all in love with the Su-34
It is a very cool airplane. I love how you have to climb the nose gear to get into it
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Jesse Pinkman, now that is awesome!
@@aviation4life640 Spasibo :-)
@@yasenkrasen1581 I was expecting a clickbait but this made my day.
Dan is a great guy to fly with. Glad I got to finally see video of his "project" ride
"I think I know where everything is now"
- Things you don't want to hear your airline captain say just before takeoff
....and the other phrase, while in flight is: "Oh Shit!" 🤣
you never want to hear a pilot say that, from the cockpit. 😳
Great video, really great! But I'm not sure that you're quite right, when talking about that cutters at 6:00. I think they were made like that intentionally.
From the very start of MiG-23 project in the 1960s, there were actually plans to make a naval fighter MiG-23A for an 1160-project carriers. 1160 were to be a "classic" carriers with somewhat 60-70 jets.
But later Admiral Sergei "Only Submarines Matter" Gorshkov and Nikita "Lets Put Missiles Everywhere" Khrushchev decided to build Kiev-class "semi-cruiser uncarriers" armed with 16 Ka-27 helicopters, 12 Yak-38 VTOLs and LOTS of missiles.
Beautiful Russian plane
Love from the USA ❤️
Thank you.Love from the Russia!
@@СергейБезрукавный-с4н I'm American and you guys have always made fascinating and terrific planes! This was a terrific treat to see as were used to our own planes. Happy New Year to you from usa!
Here from Barnstormers. Fascinating. I did not think I’d stay for the whole 42 minutes. Hilarious intro too.
Always a favorite when I was a kid. That and the SU25 Frogfoot. Great video!
Thank you so much for your video! This is so great, when people from different countries can talk about their aircraft with respect to each other! Thank you so much again! Let our jets will meet only during air shows as products of progress, not of war!
AMAZING. Never thought I'd see a -23 in the US. WOW.
See the following video. The USAF were operating MiG-23s along with other MiGs for evaluation/training during the 1970s and 1980s.
th-cam.com/video/BayjAFra_6U/w-d-xo.html
Badass looking Mig-23. One of best looking planes ever.
Its so complicated and smooth edgy . A needle
Came back, seen again - from beginning to the end ! What a machine ☆ !!! Thank you 👍
glad we're (maybe) going to have it in WT
I love this. It is a super high performance fighter with 1950’s technology. What a lucky man to get to play with it.
70's mate ;)
70s technology
Non western planes in general get absolutely obliterated by NATO
@@ayugoslav5554 - does it matter in the context of something to own and play with? At this point, it’s a toy - a marvelous toy.
1960s. It was designed in the 1960s.
thank you so much for this, to the pilot/owner and the op. gratitude!
-INTRO-
Fighter-Jet: Russian 🇷🇺
Narrator: Russian 🇷🇺
Anthem: Russian 🇷🇺
Perfect 👌
Soviet!
soviet, not russian
And it was owned by Bulgaria :)
Soviet Union = Russia
Kind of like:
UK = England
General Motors = Chevrolet
Internet = World Wide Web
Rat Pack = Frankie, Deano, and Sammy.
Nobody much cares about the other stuff.
@@Bartonovich52 not anymore ... Soviet Union was more like Nazi Germany and is now just as dead.
This was so good that I had to pause it on my TV (not logged into YT there) and come and find it on my machine that's logged in just to like the video. Well done.
Wow i really really enjoyed this, always had a thing for russian planes but this was way more detailed than i expected. Hope to see more, thanks!
What a great piece of engineering. Designed it to go fast and forward.
Holy hell this is fantastic. Totally riveting.
Erik, Your videos are always the best content and most concise. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. Cheers
Thanks a lob buddy! So happy you enjoy them. We have fun making them and do try to make them as access we can!
You have a lot of faith in this old bird.. brave man
Hey. This guy is the best. Congratulation for having such a great 23. The best walk around video on internet for that aircraft!
So sorry to see this plane downed, she was a really nice one
I'm glad we have this video the document is beautiful machine after todays crash it's just a smoking hole in the ground.
Cool video. Nicest guy that talks about the plane ! Hi from Russia)
Hello from America USA
Здравия желаю вам . Переводчик через сий говор не пройдет
That truck-like sound! PSSS! I really enjoyed that!!! Beautiful plane. Amazing walkaround.
Wow. I never would have imagined that there were any flying examples of a MiG-23 here in America outside of Constant Peg.
Americans own 19 Mig-29s
@@martinrivera9186 yeah but I don't think thoose are flyable
@@alfepalfe only one I know of flys currently and constantly
@@martinrivera9186 Yes, but those are MiG-29s, not MiG-23s.
@@alfepalfe they bought them from the moldova air force. When moldova needed when they financial assistance.
I'll miss this plane.
Everyone knows that red stripes make things go fast!!
This is my favorite walkaround video of an Russian airplane. RIP 8107/N23UB. You will be missed. :(
Beautiful machine----Красивая машина
Хороший рассказ. Приятно было посмотреть подробный обзор на Советский истребитель МиГ-23. Good work! Thenks you!
And I just wanted a L-39, and now I'm jealous. lol
Great video and amazing up close look at the MiG-23.
I've always liked the MiG-23. It has a pleasing chunky, angular shape to it.
Nice one! I met in Thailand a Russian retired engineer officer, we have a long talk about planes of that era, he told me that the Mig-23/27 landing gear was a real pain in the *ss to maintain and service. Hardest than any type he worked with. My only real view of this plane was back in 2005 in Belgrade airport, they had a place near by, something between a scrapyard and a museum, and they had Mig-21s, Mig-23s and more! Really glad to see these legends that time.
These Mig-23 were sent to repair by Saddam Hussein's Air Force before first Gulf War and stayed ever since
Probably designed by the same guy who designed the convertible top for the 60's Lincoln Continental, you wanna talk about something complicated, 14 relays and 7 motors involved, one of the worst things I've ever had to fix on an automobile.
@@we_love_animals8160 That explains the dessert style camo they had!
Always called my attention the rear landing gear of this aircraft, great design, great video of this beautiful old lady.
This plane is surely Amazing.
Amazing look and Amazing Speed.
Hard to belive it had difficult life.
Great . I was involved in building one of these aircraft in the 1970s, it was a 1/72 scale version, I never could get the wings to extend smoothly! I have a watch I bought from one of the crew of the "Bear" in the 90s that has the "Flogger" on it!
Yuri: Put this on the plane!
Sergei: Da.....and what is it?
Yuri: Exactly!
Exciting aircraft and an entertaining guide. Doesn’t get better than that! Thank you for posting.
"And here we have the cd-player for inflight entertainment.." Looks like one in the center :-)
I like the old style alerts, notifications, lamps & lights! They are Very Cool. :-)