I know many people love the Su-27 because how beautiful it looks, how maneuverable it is, or because it can do the cobra maneuver, but today i will show you something that will make you love it even more! a thread 🧵 and since im poor and lack twitter premium there will be images
Song that raised my love towards Su-27 to a spiritual level...
Pavel Surmach - Zhuravli "Cranes" (ENG subtitles)
"At the age of 17 (in 1979), he enrolled in the Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (Red Banner). He trained and passed the state exam on the MiG-23 -
after which he was sent to serve in the Far East. During his time at the school, Pavel Surmach wrote several dozen songs together with his classmates, During the last year of his life he battled cancer. On February 16, 2026, Pavel Dmitrievich passed away in his hometown of Kursk"
41 minute s of airshow footage from when French Air Force Mirage F-1's "Normandie-Niemen" and Mirage 2000's visited Smolensk, greeted by the Russian Knights, Russian Swifts, and Russian Hussars aerobatic teams.
September 12th, 1992.
Su-27's from the 159 IAP in Kluczewo, photos taken by Robert Senkowski and Cezary Piotrowski, appeared in a Belgian aviation magazine "Lock On" number 17, 1992
Photos of the Su-27's from the 159 IAP, Kluczewo airfield, taken between 1988-1989 by Robert Senkowski, appeared in a French aviation magazine "Air Action" number 41 from July 1993
Fresh scans from an aviation magazine from today,
Su-27's from the 582 IAP, Chojna airfield, March 1992.
Su-27's number 51 and 48 from the 159 IAP on the Poznań-Krzesiny airfield during airshow, August 1991.
and a pair of early Su-27's in flight.