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<text id=91TT1289>
<title>
June 10, 1991: A Star Is Born In the Soviet Union
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 10, 1991 Evil
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 15
A Star Is Born In the Soviet Union
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<p>By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by Linda Williams
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<p> Amid the desolation of economic collapse, the Soviet
aerospace industry has come up with an apparent winner. Flown
by a crack new aerobatic team from Moscow, MiG-29 Fulcrum-D jet
fighters dazzled spectators at a French air base last month with
demonstrations of the Soviet-invented "cobra" maneuver. In a
chilling imitation of a striking snake, the aircraft rockets
upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the
pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies
backward in that position and then snaps forward again and
resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss the
maneuver as impractical for combat, but the sleek blue-and-white
fighters are expected to star at this month's Salon Aero
nautique Espace in Paris.
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