Interesting videos of the Albanian Air-Forces (80s)

[TirAlb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J27gN5UFhoQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMNEpeCpWwQ&feature=related

[Orphic_Hymn]

Sorry TirAlb, but just couldn't help myself..

For Sale: Albanian MiG Aircraft Fleet.

TIRANA, Albania: Albania’s antiquated air force of Soviet-designed MiG aircraft, which killed 35 Albanian pilots but no enemies, is finally on its way to the museum and the scrapheap, the armed forces chief said on Tuesday. "If anyone wants to buy them, they are welcome," Gen. Pellumb Qazimi told Reuters. Some potential Western buyers "wanted to turn them into bars," he said.

Source (http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4046)



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[TirAlb]

Just enjoy the video Orphic. Those 35 pilots were real heroes, most of them died trying to save their aircraft, more precious than their own life for them. From 1975 Albania was an isolated country so everything, from the substitute parts, to the fuel was made in Albania, i think you understand how difficult is smth like that for a small and poor country tha can't count on the foreign help.
I said it,video from the 80s, so there's nothing strange if those vehicles are now,just museum pieces.

[Orphic_Hymn]

No need to get all defensive about it.. I just found the statistics quite amusing.

[TirAlb]

Here there are the same aircrafts of the previous videos filmed recently, and ready for the museum.


Mig 17 and Mig 19 (Russian model )

Mig 21 (Chinese copy of the original Russian model))

[Victor]

I wonder if Enver Hoxha copied STalin and executed any pilots who complained about the planes.

[Tsontos]

Romania and Albania are the saddest cases of what communism can do to a country.

[Truth Bearer]

But TirAlb how can you people accept Hoxha and thew other clown king Zog??You have lived in amn oppressed society for 60 odd years how did the populace put up with it??