SU-27's first flight

[Chris V]

The first privately owned SU-27 took flight on Dec 10th. I so wish I was still back in IL to have seen this.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SkywardMedia#p/u/0/d4lE6HcBPxw

http://www.defencetalk.com/us-buys-su-27-fighters-from-ukraine-for-aggressor-training-18795/

[BillOz]

Definitely wins the coolest toy award.  Going to be hard to top a two seat SU-27.

[jslugman]

OK, who wants to be the photographer in the night afterburner test?!?!?!?!?!?

[Joe Copalman]

Wonder what kind of market there is for their services and what they'll be charging versus what their operating costs are. 

Sure would be cool to catch this thing out at Yuma supporting a WTI. 

[Chris V]

Kinda cool to see this vid. You can see the Byron nuke reactors off to the left.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRA0wczZS3U

[Chris V]

I think it really sucks that they where forced to get rid of these 2 planes!

http://prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm

[cpasley]

I thought that was their intention all along after all they sold for $5,000,000 each and that was a nice profit from what I read also im assuming they went to private owners since both aircraft were de-milled and replaced with western avionics