In July 1983 the 234 Guards Fighter Regiment (since 1992 - 237 TsPAT:237th Centre for Display of Aviation Equipment)based in Kubinka air base was among the first regular aviation regiments to receive 4th generation fighters Mig-29. Regiment started tailoring a team of military pilots, boasting perfect aerobatic techniques, to carry out demonstration flights on Mig-29s in the mid-1980s, when the Air Force was just embarking on mastering aircraft of this type. Military pilots, headed by Lieutenant Colonel A.N. Kutuzov, an Honorary Military Pilot of Russia, were tasked with perfecting aerobatics in a formation of six aircraft sometimes spaced three metres apart.

In October 1991 the Strizhi aerobatic team carried out its first demonstration flights abroad, when it paid a visit to the Swedish Uppsala airbase. The Strizhi first public foreign demonstration took place in France in May 1992 during the air show, devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Normandy-Neman squadron. The aerobatic team's airmanship amazed experienced western public. The tight six-aircraft formation carried out almost every aerobatic stunt: oblique loop, loop-the-loop, barrel roll, etc. The flight formations constantly changed as well: the echelon formation transformed into the "envelope", the "cross", the "pyramid", the "wing", and the "star" formations. The demonstration flight ended with a spectacular break-up of aircraft to various directions, the so-called "tulip" break-up, followed by a volley of flares, fired by fighters.
In 1993 the Strizhi took part in the LIMA'93 air show on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia, as well as air shows in Belgium and Thailand. At the Thailand air show the team's aircraft mechanics set something of a record in assembling aircraft: four Mig-29s were dismantled and delivered to Thailand aboard an An-124 air transport, and Russian aircraft technicians and mechanics managed to get them operational within only three days. In 1995 the Strizhi visited Sweden once again, and in 1997 the team paid a visit to Finland.
The Strizhi aerobatic team has conducted 50 demonstration flights on an annual basis since 1991. Its pilots have visited in excess of 28 foreign states. The team traditionally participates in Tushino air parades and Zhukovsky air shows. The team's pilots have repeatedly carried out demonstration flights during numerous celebrations, devoted to anniversaries of various cities, including the 850th anniversary of Moscow.
In 1993 the Strizhi aerobatic team merited the title of the World's Best Aerobatic Team, while in 1997 Nikolay Dyatel won the first prize in solo flying at the international air show in Finland.

The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: МиГ-29) (NATO reporting name "Fulcrum") is a fighter aircraft designed for the air superiority role in the Soviet Union. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service in 1983 and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations.
Mikoyan, formerly Mikoyan-Gurevich (Russian: Микоян-Гуревич, МиГ), is a Russian military aircraft design bureau, primarily for fighter aircraft. It was formerly a Soviet design bureau, and was founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich as "Mikoyan-Gurevich" and its bureau prefix is "MiG." Some sources also point out that MIG stands for Military Industrial Group, but this is most probably an English backronym since the Russian word for "Military" does not start with "M". Upon Mikoyan's death in 1970, Gurevich's name was dropped from the name of the bureau, although the bureau prefix remains MiG. Mikoyan was privatized following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian government is planning to merge Mikoyan with Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation.[1] The firm also operates several machine-building and design bureaus, including the Kamov helicopter plant.
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