MiGFlug
MiGFlug GmbH is a Zurich,[1] Switzerland-based[2][3] Aviation and Space Adventure company specialized in Fighter Jet Flights.[4] The company was founded in 2004 by current CEO Philipp Schaer[5][6][7] and Flavio Kaufmann. As of 2015, offerings include jet trainer flights, supersonic flights, Edge of Space flights, zero gravity flights and suborbital space flights.[8][9]
Type | Private |
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Industry | Military Tourism, Spaceflight |
Founded | 2004 |
Headquarters | Switzerland |
Website | http://www.migflug.com/en |
Company
Philipp Schaer is the current CEO of MiGFlug.[10] He co-founded the company in 2004,[11] with another student at the University of Zurich.[12] The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland,[13] and registered in the commercial register of Lucerne.[14] MiGFlug's main business is offering flights in military fighter jets for civilians, including supersonic flights.[15] It started with jet flights from Ramenskoye Airport, Russia.[16] MiGFlug has been shown on Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures with Ben Fogle,[17][18][19] broadcast on BBC, and is regularly on Top of Bucket Lists.[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] A number of notable passengers have flown in one of the company's fighter jets, including Anthony Bourdain,[28] Zoltán Báthory,[29] Joel Kinnaman, Miss India 2010 Manasvi Mamgai,[30] TyDi,[31] Josh Cartu,[32][33][34][35][36][37] "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff,[38] Jake Paul,[39] Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Joko Winterscheidt and Pauline Nordin.[40]
Several of MiGFlug's jets and pilots have appeared in movies, in TV and in commercial productions. For example, an L-39 appeared in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies in the opening scene with 007 hijacking the plane and flying away seconds before the bazaar is destroyed.[41] MiGFlug has produced several Galileo episodes for ProSieben, as well as a zero gravity flight for Joko gegen Klaas.[42] Porsche,[43] Mercedes-Benz[44] Diesel, OnePlus,[45] IGN[46] and Swiss diary company Emmi AG[47] produced advertisements or advertorials with MiGFlug.
MiGFlug's subsidiary GoAviator specializes in vintage flights, for example in Warbirds and biplanes.[48][49] MiGFlug also has a popular blog, covering aviation topics, with a focus on military aviation.[50]
Since 2015, MiGFlug has offered formation jet flights with up to six passengers flying at the same time in close formation in an L-39.[51]
In some locations MiGFlug also offers flights to customers in wheelchairs, who enter the L-39 jets with the help of a forklift.[52]
Aircraft flown
Aircraft | Origin | Type | Variant | Notes | Flight Location |
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Combat Aircraft | |||||
Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum[53][54][55][56] | Soviet Union | Multirole combat aircraft, Air Superiority Fighter | MiG-29 UB | Only supersonic flight currently available for Civilians.[57] Edge of Space flight up to 20 km altitude[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83] | Russia |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (NATO reporting | Soviet Union | Jet Fighter aircraft | S-102 | Built in Czech Republic in license as S-102 by Aero Vodochody | Czech Republic |
Hawker Hunter[90][91][92] | United Kingdom | Fighter-bomber | Hunter Mk-58 | Operated by Swiss Air Force as long as 1994 | Switzerland |
De Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | Jet Fighter aircraft | Vampire DH-115 Mk 55 | Operated by Swiss Air Force as long as 1990 | Switzerland |
BAC Strikemaster | United Kingdom | Attack aircraft | United Kingdom | ||
Military Jet Trainer | |||||
Aero L-39 Albatros[93][94][95][96] | Czech Republic | Military trainer aircraft, Light ground attack | L-39C | Highest production number of any military jet trainers worldwide with 2900 units produced. The L-39 Albatros was the first second-generation jet trainer in production and the first trainer aircraft with a turbofan powerplant. | United States[97][98]
(earlier in Spain)[110]) |
Aero L-29 Delfin | Czech Republic | Military trainer aircraft, Light attack | Slovakia[111] | ||
Aermacchi MB-326[112] | Italy | Advanced trainer/Light attack | The MB-326 did not see service with the Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team, who kept the Fiat G.91. They were later replaced by the MB-326 successor, the MB-339 | Italy | |
BAC Jet Provost[113] | United Kingdom | Military trainer aircraft | Italy | ||
Lockheed T-33 | United States | Military trainer aircraft | Canada |
Aircraft flown in the past
Jets offered from Ramenskoye Airbase near Moscow in Russia from 2004-2006 included MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-29 and the Su-27.[114] Through a cooperation with Thunder City in Cape Town, South Africa, MiGFlug offered English Electric Lightning and Blackburn Buccaneer flights.[115] MiGFlug also organized T-38 supersonic flights in the US for Galileo/ProSieben.[116]
Spacecraft and zero gravity
Weightless flight offers include the Ilyushin Il-76 from Star City (Zvyozdny gorodok)[117][118][119] near Moscow and a Boeing 727 in the United States, through a cooperation agreement with the Zero Gravity Corporation.[120][121] MiGFlug also had an arrangement to offer future sub-orbital spaceflights in the XCOR Lynx;[122] Xcor filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2017.[123]
Planned future flights
According to monthly German aerobatic magazine FliegerRevue, MiGFlug plans to offer stratosphere flights, or so-called "Edge of Space" flights, in both MiG-21 and MiG-23 aircraft to replace the MiG-29, which has no longer been available since late 2017.[124]
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