Beg to differ, but they're FA-18's......the Blue Angels only buy AMERICAN.....
I'm a bit embarassed to admit that I sometimes have difficulty telling the later generations of MiGs and Sukhoi apart but these aren't Hornets. They're MiG 29s. Look closer at the intakes for one of the more obvious tell tales.
This collision happened at RAF Fairford during the Royal International Air Tatoo back in the early 90s. Just a few years before another MiG 29 incident had occurred at the Paris Air Show as well. If memory serves the planes in the picture weren't from the Russian AF's national demonstration team but from one of the "bureau" teams.
During a loop the trailing MiG missed his separation and the left wing cut the nose off the lead MiG. The MiG that had just lost it's port wing continued an almost vertical climb with jet fuel pouring out of the wing tank. The MiG flew in to a cloud being chased by a fireball as the fuel burned. It blew up inside the cloud.
The lead plane (with it's nose cut off) kind of folded up a bit and entered a flat spin. The pilot actually stayed with it hoping it keep the air frame out of the crowd. He didn't know all his controls were severed. He eventually punched out after the aircraft had somewhat righted itself just before it crashed. Somewhere early in it's vertical climb the other pilot must have punched out too as if I remember correctly they both survived the incident.
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