---
title: "Drive Wire: Fly With Russia’s Kubinka Diamond Aerobatics Team"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-10-28"
modified: "2015-10-28"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/677/drive-wire-fly-with-russias-kubinka-diamond-aerobatics-team"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Drive Wire: Fly With Russia’s Kubinka Diamond Aerobatics Team

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Transcript:

Who doesn’t love watching 9 fighter pilots slice through the air at 621 miles per hour? This video comes to us from the tailwing of a MIG-29 and the cockpit of an SU-27 of the Russian Air Force’s Kubinka Diamond Aerobatics Team. Comprised of four flankers from the Russian Knights and five fulcrums from the Swifts, these airborne genies fly within a few feet of one another as they backflip, barrel roll and bank their way to glory.

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