(all photos copyright Ken Duffey)
Before setting off to Kubinka, I photographed this monument to Nikolai Gastello near our hotel.
The tower is the oldest fire station in Moscow - contrasting with MacDonalds and our Holiday Inn in Sokolniki.
On the roadside near Kubinka, we stopped to photograph this MiG-21F monument.
Yakovlev Yak-28L in the 121st ARZ museum.
Sukhoi Su-27UB 'Sparka' displaying two different bort numbers.
MiG-29.
MiG-23UB.
Early Mi-8T.
Kamov Ka-27.
Yakovlev Yak-38M.
MiG-25RB.
Mil Mi-24.
Mil Mi-2.
The collection of ejection seats inside the small factory museum.
KT-1 ejection seat - as used on the Tu-22M.
MiG-19 on a pole inside the factory......
... and typical Soviet-era mural on the wall opposite.
MiG-15UTI monument on the road leaving Kubinka.
Some new arrivals at Zadorozhni - all ex-Khodynka airframes. This is a MiG-17
MiG-19.
MiG-21SMT.
Il-28.
This unpainted Yak-38M looks like it came straight out the factory.
Another Yak-38 - this time an early variant from the Yakovlev museum.
Another ex-Yakovlev machine - the Yak-141.
Hawker Hurricane - now in Soviet markings.
A-90 on the riverbank at Khimki, Moscow.
Mil Mi-24 'Hind-A'
MiG-21F.
MiG-2MF.
MiG-23.
The remains of Gary Powers' U-2.
Su-15TM.
Monument to the Kursk submarine outside the museum.
Hurricane 'replica'......
Il-2 'Shtormovik'.
Polikarpov I-153.
P-63 Kingcobra.
Immaculately restored Il-4 bomber.
Sukoi's rival to the Il-2 - the Su-2.
LaGG-3.
Not so immaculate Bf-109.
Modern day 'Shtormovik' - the Sukhoi Su-25 in naval markings.
Su-17UM3.
Su-15TM.
Li-2 - licence built C-47.
© Ken Duffey August 2012