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Bulgarian Mig-29s escort Lufthansa Airbus A380 arriving in Sofia for the first time

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Piloted by the only Bulgarian A380 Lufthansa pilot, Senior First Officer Mario Bakalov, the largest passenger aircraft of the world took off from Frankfurt as a special flight carrying a delegation of politicians, customers and media to the Bulgarian capital to introduce the Lufthansa A380 to customers and the general public in the country and to promote long-haul flights to the U.S. and Asia. (theaviationist.com) More...

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pr0ject
El Kabong 4
Wonder how nuts their TCAS went with birds that close to a commercial jet like that.
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esurk2001
esurk2001 0
No transponder, no TCAS
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annellandfrank
John Taylor 2
Very dangerous stuff. The low pres area vicinity lifting surfaces of large aircraft can be lethal to smaller a/c. Years ago a "chase" F-104 in formation w/a test USAF supersonic proto-type bomber was sucked in destroying both.
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akayemm
Er.A.K. Mittal 3
A nice and good welcome gesture !
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Pmedinc
Hans Ulrich van Holt 2
Excellent.
Congratulation
UvH
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annellandfrank
John Taylor 1
Even more-so than TCAS.....what about ATC?
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jkcooney
Joseph Cooney 0
But is does make for a nice photo op. for Airbus and Putin.
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 2
Putin?
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jkcooney
Joseph Cooney -4
Not so great for American aircraft industry/employees.... British-French Airbus Corp escorted by Russian MIGs...... guess American industry is not price competitive in Europe anymore.... no political clout in the Obama administration to promote our industry.
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wopri
Wolfgang Prigge 6
You know of course that Bulgaria is a NATO member, and the only reason they still have their old soviet era planes is the fact they can't afford newer aircraft. What is the relation to the Obama administration?
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falcon1073
Michael Sanchez 1
He's just another Obama hater for no logical reason.
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