I myself grew up in Eastern Europe so I have an affinity for anything Russian that flies or crawls and espesially for the Mig-21s. My dad told me a story when I was a kid of a Mig pilot who had to eject but he was above the clouds and could not see the ground. If the pilot ejected the plane would have crashed on the factory below where my father was workning. My dad said the they all heard the loud noise above their heads and saw the plane coming out of the clouds crashing in the near field killing the pilot who steered his plane to the last minute to avoid ground casualties.
In grade school, my classmate's father was a pilot who had died in a Mig-21and he always had model planes in his house, in contrast to my house where my parents couldn't afford spending money on toys like that. I often wondered if his father was the one that crashed his plane to save my father. I never asked him but I thought that it might have been my friend's dad.
When I went back this summer to visit my parents, I brought them an Academy Mig-21MF. My dad thought that it was a Mig-28, sinse had a large 28 number on the side. I guess he is not a modeller.
I can't get wormed up to the Mig-29, it looks like a misshaped Su-27 to me.
Borislav
Keep your foot off the throttle.