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Mikoyan & Gurevich
Mig-29A Fulcrum in Detail
General views and camouflage
General view of the 29+12 at the air display. The occasion is an open day at the NATO-air base Geilenkirchen near Aachen in the western part of Germany. The date is June 28, 1998. The machine carries a two-tone grey low-visibility camouflage.
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The tactical markings are sparse, consisting
mainly of 29+12 code together with a black cross the sides of the engine air
intakes. The grey camouflage is in quite heavily weathered condition. |
The 29+12 code is black surrounded by thin white outline. All Migs of JG 73 are marked this way, with the second number (12) indicating individual aircraft. All numbers are two-digit. For example the sister aircraft "5" is marked 29+05 (see the photo of the landing Mig on the main page of this article). Note also a patch of lighter color to the left of
the cross, apparently a result of some repair/maintenance job. Fresh paint patches as this
one are also present elsewhere on this particular aircraft - some of them visible on the
other photos of this set. |
Tail markings are even more discrete. The tiny fin flash is augmented only by the unit emblem. Note also the "no hold" stencils in form of orange diagonal crosses. |
Incorporating East German aircraft into Luftwaffe service involved the change of all stencil instructions to bi-lingual German-English. |
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