The Hind is back!!!

[AZPhil]

Hello My Fellow Aviation Fan's,
I had mentioned about a Hind that attends our Weapons Training Instruction that takes place here.
Well She's Here!!!!
The MI-24 HIND

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I'll try and find her when she isn't wearing that blue sun shade

Semper Fi
Phil

[Stinkpotpete]

WOW, that's awesome! Is it privately owned, or does someone know someone at the Russian embassy? haha That is cool

[reneblacky]

Nice one Phil, what a rare sight!

[Watchdog]

Nice one Phil, what a rare sight!

When the "wall" came down I was still serving in Germany when the Bundeswehr took possession of a whole bunch of these.

One sunny morning about 0700 hrs I was walking home very tired after a difficult night shift when behind me I heard a characteristic low growl of engines in the air. I turned around and in that moment tired as I was I looked up straight at a Mi-24G at around 500 feet

Having trained so long to fight these buggers my heart nearly stopped until I remembered the circumstances and continued home with extra appetite for my bacon sandwich and coffee!

For a while we saw quite a few of these both in Germany and the uk. Always a stunning iconic sight

Regards

Mark

[vegetius]

"with extra appetite for my bacon sandwich and coffee!"

Off topic but Ahhhhhhh, the food of the gods! EOD runs on that (3 times a day sometimes).

Oh and on the topic, living about 10 miles from Crab central at Brize and USAF Fairford, (which I think is still working), I was shocked a couple of times last year when a B52 came over doing circuits at low level. "Arc Light.... Charlie don't ever see them or hear them..."

[AZPhil]

I'm glad everyone liked it!
A couple years ago I was giving a friend a tour of the base/airfield and the Hind crew were out doing a post flight check.
So I went over and started chatting with the 2 elder gent's who were the crew.
They said they were out of Texas and had bought 3 of these Romanian versions of the Hind when Romania exited the Warsaw pact and joined NATO .
They fly 2 of them and the 3rd is their parts pig.

Semper Fi
Phil

[AZPhil]

Well looks like somebody found that Hind's home.
When I spoke to the crew YEARS AGO, I thought they said Bulgarian, But for some reason ROMANIAN was stuck in my head.
On another site I posted this they came back with the Bulgarian and by the markings they ID'ed it belonging to this outfit.

Cold War Air Museum - ColdWarAirMuseum

Apparently they have some DOD contracts which one of them would be the WTI support role.

I haven't been on the flightline since last week, so I haven't had a chance to find her and get a close up on the markings on the side.

Semper Fi
Phil

[Anderson]

Some close up pics would be good Phil.

[Kaikun2001]

Really cool, would love to see more pics closer.

- kai

[AZPhil]

Some close up pics would be good Phil.

I go back in Sunday,
I'll look then.
Semper Fi
Phil