{"id":16837,"date":"2024-03-02T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/mig-29-fulcrum-pair-quincy-illinois-analysis\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T15:00:12","slug":"curious-why-two-mig-29-fulcrums-are-stored-at-quincy-regional-airport-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=16837","title":{"rendered":"Curious: Why Two MiG-29 Fulcrums Are Stored At Quincy Regional Airport In Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MiG-29 Fulcrum air superiority fighter had its first flight in 1977, becoming the last generation of Soviet-designed fighters. It was the Soviet Union&#8217;s answer to the <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-f16-fighter-jet-popularity-guide\/\" >General Dynamics F-16 Falcon<\/a>, featuring two Klimov RD-33 afterburning turbofan engines for improved survivability. <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/mig-21-to-29-fighter-jets-guide\/\" >The MiG-29 was popular in the East<\/a>, and the fighter appeared in the inventory of every former Soviet state and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pair of Soviet fighters have been there for over a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,412,309,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-military","category-russia","category-sovietjets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137638,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions\/137638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}