Paul Allen buys restored MiG (Microsoft co-founder)

HeraldNet ^ | March 15, 2011 | Debra Smith

[mad_as_he$$]

Last time I saw Allen he was 150 pounds to big to get into any fighter cockpit.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Anybody pick up on the fact that Allen is flying the Union Jack of his yatch?

I mean, it could be worse (flags from France or Russia) but hey, Paul, you ashamed of the Greatest Country in the World, without which you and you FAR LEFT MOONBAT partner (Gates) would NEVER have achieved such success or riches???

[mad_as_he$$]

BS.

[katana]

Agree completely. At least they never, as far was we know, came up with something and butt ugly as this.

[Tallguy]

The F-14 is much bigger & sports variable geometry (swing) wings. The MiG-29 was basically an attempt to develop something comparable to the F-16 Falcon. It’s a pretty slick aircraft.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOLOL!! Touché!

[antiRepublicrat]

Is that pregnant? At least it looks experimental by the tail number. But we did put the very ugly (although very capable) A-6 into production.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Rich boys and their toys......

[onedoug]

´Hope the ejection seat is working.

[ReverendJames]

I’m thinking the correct reply rather than BS would be “I think you’re mistaken” - there is a theory out there that the F-15 was a knockoff in design of the MIG25 which came out a year earlier. It landed in Japan by a pilot fleeing either China or Russia. We took it apart, studied it, and crated it up and sent it back. You can read various articles both pro and con. Just saying.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Gaak!....How un-American can you get?....Screw Russian fighters!....If you're going to buy something....

[ReverendJames]

PS - MiG-25 was a huge threat to the US. If it weren't for Viktor Belenko, who stole it and brought it to Hakodate in Japan we'd never had the opportunity to study it. Superficially it looks like the MIG-25 but then it ends there.

[Rinnwald]

“You should get your money back from your collage...”

I paste stuff in my collage.

No, really. I break into the dorms and put up radical conservative posters. V!

[ReverendJames]

PS - The MiG-25 was a huge threat to the US. If it weren't for Viktor Belenko, who stole it and brought it to Hakodate in Japan we'd never had the opportunity to study it. Superficially it looks like the MIG-25 but then it ends there.

[mad_as_he$$]

The F-15 was on the drawing boards long before the Mig was examined. I am sick of those internet BS stories. BTW the F-15 was the dominate air superiority fighter for 30 years. The only better aircraft today s the F-22. The F-15 is 120:0 kill ratio system.

[PeteePie]

Here’s a link to all of his other toys:

http://www.flyingheritage.com/TemplateHome.aspx?contentId=1

[mad_as_he$$]

Plain and simple the Mig 25 was a pile of junk. Lousy workmanship and avionics.

[katana]

It was one of the two finalists (Boeing’s entry) in the JSF VTOL competition. The F35 (from Lockheed Martin) won the contract.

[PapaBear3625]

youtube on Paul Allen's yacht (actually more like a private ocean liner)

Seems Paul decided to mainly cash out and spend his days yachting around with supermodels and movie stars for company. In passing, he also has people like George Soros showing up for his New Years party

[ReverendJames]

Just saying that the airframe looked almost identical to the MIG25.