The Secret MiGs at Area 52 | Behind the Wings

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Join Wings' curator Chuck Stout and Wings' President & CEO John Barry for Part 2 of our series on Constant Peg, a first-of-its-kind adversary training program.

American MiG-21 and MiG-23 pilot John Mann is back to help us dive into some of the most popular questions. This one is going to be cool!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:47 Flight Training
3:57 Constant Peg
6:47 Learning to Fly MiGs
10:12 Flying the MiG-23
16:01 Simulating Soviet Missiles
17:40 Acquiring MiGs
20:06 Landing the MiG
22:01 Soviet Design Philosophy
25:04 Russian Training
25:34 MiG Maintenance
27:44 Keeping It Secret
29:44 Lessons Learned
32:12 Outro

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