Can anybody identify what soviet aircraft this throttle is from?

Posted by brandenkampf@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 30 comments

Brought this at a military fair 15 years ago, just rediscovered it in the loft. Looks like a single engine, afterburning soviet jet so I thought mig 21. Looks similar to some variants but the olive green colouring is throwing me off! Any ideas anyone?

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NervousDependent@reddit

Something with an afterburner, if I read the label correctly ("forsaj", I don't speak Russian)

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TheDrMonocle@reddit

Google translated it to "MAX. AFTERFURIOUS" which I think I like better.

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MNIMWIUTBAS@reddit

It's better than the British calling it "reheat"

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MoistFW190@reddit

Reheating my breakfast. Ejecting onto the lounge

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tex1138@reddit

Good action hero name.

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svartalf@reddit

It translates as "max. afterburner".

And labels in the last photo are saying "stop" ("стоп"), "low thrust" ("м.газ"), and "max. afterburner" ("макс. форсаж", and I have no idea why it is visually split into two labels)

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saml01@reddit

Its “M.” It could be mimimum.

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WarthogOsl@reddit

I wonder if "max" is their word for "military power," the max non-afterburning setting.

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keel_up2@reddit

Precisely this. Max = mil.power

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hakmar0_12@reddit

Because at the ‘MAX’ mark maximum fuel utilization occurs, and at the ‘AFTERBURNER MODE’ mark additional fuel is burned in the afterburner chamber (i.e. EVEN MORE fuel is used to accelerate the Jet)

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Peter_Merlin@reddit

Based on the part number I would say it's from a MiG-21PF (Izdeliye 76; NATO nickname "Fishbed-D").

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21WFKUA@reddit

My favorute MIg

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Peter_Merlin@reddit

I know some guys who flew it for the US Air Force.

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21WFKUA@reddit

Was it a stolen or defector ?

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Peter_Merlin@reddit

It was one of a number of airplanes acquired from Egypt through diplomatic channels in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were flown at Area 51 by the Red Hats squadron. I wrote a detailed history of the program in this book:

https://schifferbooks.com/products/dreamland?srsltid=AfmBOoppX9subTklzlZ7YRGOqallNDPtNuxn38G8Xtygm3Zk0m59VOs2

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21WFKUA@reddit

I built one at 16 years old

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21WFKUA@reddit

1:72 ;-)

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SlapThatAce@reddit

It's from Blyat-3, they way you can tell is by smelling the handle. It should smell like Stolichnaya vodka which was produced until 2013, then got bought out and it's just not the same.

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