This allowed the country to make MiG-21 variants like the Bison. Despite still operating in several countries, the MiG-21 is reaching the end of its service life. Aside from its aging airframe ...

On this day in aviation history, February 14, 1955, the first flight of a key progenitor that led to the MiG-21, the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2 took place. The Russian-designed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ...