{"id":353,"date":"2012-04-04T18:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=353"},"modified":"2012-04-04T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:16:16","slug":"rare-jet-set-to-be-tsar-of-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/rare-jet-set-to-be-tsar-of-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Jet set to be Tsar of the Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A state-of-the-art combat jet used to train Russian Air Force fighter pilots will give a rarely-seen demonstration of its light attack capabilities at this summer&#8217;s Royal International Air Tattoo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The display will be the first time anyone outside of Russia has seen a display by the Yak-130 \u2018Mitten&#8217; in its light attack configuration with a full complement of weapons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Yak-130, which will come from the Irkut Corporation based in Moscow, is a two-seat, subsonic jet trainer\/light attack aircraft. It entered service with the Russian Air Force in 2010. The aircraft can replicate the characteristics of the latest generation fighters and carries a variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The participation of the Yak-130 in July&#8217;s display cements the Air Tattoo&#8217;s reputation for showcasing aircraft from Russia, which began in 1992 when a Su-27P \u2018Flanker&#8217; 595 and Tu-134 appeared at Boscombe Down followed, in 1993, by two Mig-29s and the Tu-95MS \u2018Bear&#8217; at RAF Fairford.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first of 55 Yak-130s ordered by the Russian Defence Ministry entered service with the Russian Air Force in 2010. RuAF Commander-in-Chief Col Gen Alexander Zelin announced in March that a new aerobatics team flying Yak-130s would be created by 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air Tattoo spokesman Richard Arquati said: &#8220;To have such a rare Russian aircraft display is quite a coup and simply adds to what is already shaping up to be quite a spectacular display. We know how much aircraft enthusiasts enjoy seeing Russian aircraft &#8211; and Russian-built aircraft &#8211; at Fairford and we work hard to achieve this. This year&#8217;s Air Tattoo already has an abundance of aviation riches but now it seems the whole world wants to be at Fairford this July!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year&#8217;s Air Tattoo will see organisers join with the RAF to stage special aerial tributes celebrating the Queen&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee. For further details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.airtattoo.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 0800 107 1940. 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The display will be the first time anyone outside of Russia has seen a display by the Yak-130 \u2018Mitten&#8217; in its light attack configuration with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/rare-jet-set-to-be-tsar-of-the-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rare Jet set to be Tsar of the Show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[88,19,44,99,10,96,98],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-88","tag-air","tag-april","tag-international","tag-news","tag-royal","tag-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}