We Bought Another Soviet Fighter Jet 

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Anyone else wish we got a bit more of an explanation as to what is going in, do a look around at the new jet, explain why and how they got it, etc.? We've just been shown 25 minutes of flying from somwhere unknown to somewhere else unknown for an unknown reason. Feels kinda random

Czechoslovakia was never part of the Soviet Union. It was part of the Warsaw Pact only.

By Soviet fighter you mean, “Czechoslovakian trainer,” right?

To be clear: In 1967, the Warsaw Pact announced a tender for a subsonic training aircraft. (Warsaw Pact - the opposite pole of NATO whose members were: USSR, Poland, Hungary, GDR, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Czechoslovakia). The tender was attended by: USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and I think also GDR. The competition was won by Czechoslovakia with the L39 Albatros, which was designed, designed and constructed by engineer Vlček and his team from the Research and Test Aviation Institute in Prague - Letňany, str..Beranových 64. The L39 Albatros was the successor to the L29 Delfín, also entirely designed in Prague under led by Ing. Wolf. The aircraft was produced in the following factories: Aero in the town of Vodochody, approx. 30 km from Prague, Motorlet Praha-Jinonice and the Rudý Letov factory in Letňany, 35 Beranových Street, Prague. Part of the project was also the production of flight TL 39 and catapult NKTL 29-39 trainers. For example, 372 NKTL 29-39 trainers were produced. L39 aircraft of various versions were produced approx. 100 pieces per year and exported to all countries of the Warsaw Pact, including the USSR! (except for Poland, which did not lose the tender.) but also to other socialist countries and also to so-called friendly countries such as: Iraq, Libya ... and of course to China. The L39 was produced modernized until 2004, I think. After 1989, US companies also took part in the modernization. The production of aircraft continues in AERO Vodochody until today - L39 NG, L159... Customers are also US companies providing service to the US army during the training of military pilots . The whole project is Czech and has nothing to do with Russia, the USSR or the RF. The Czechs are understandably very proud of the production of these aircraft, considering that only 9-10 countries in the world produce jet fighters of their own design. Czechoslovak industry also participated in the development and production of Russian space technology. For this share, Czechoslovakia was rewarded by sending Vladimír Remek into space, and thanks to this, Czechoslovakia was the third country in the world to send a man into space. That's all. Greetings from a former employee of Rudý Letov n.p. later Letov a.s. I worked on the production of the NKTL 29-39 wing and trainer.

L-39 is not Soviet!, it was designed and made in Czechoslovakia... learn the difference, please.. its really hurt always hearing Soviet jet.... and its not even fighter, its primarily training/ground attacking, but it can be fitted with AA heat seaking missiles

That break through was awesome!

Beautiful, thanks for sharing 🙂

Beautiful!

Living the DREAM 😊 You go man !!!!!

He's back!

We need a whole video from the perspective at 13:02 it’s literally the perfect angle 🔥🔥🔥

More fuel ⛽️ thanks for the ride. Have a great day 😊

I regret that Matt’s leather travel accessories may cost more then the jet…

Matt I look for the Albatross every day I’m out to see it fly over. I can hear you but have yet to catch a glimpse of you fly in or out. I keep hoping to see the little Albatross!! 🤠

Just as soviet as a P-39 Airacobra is!

9:50 I love breaking out of the soup. Impresses me every time.

Thank you for sharing.

G,day Matt from Sydney Australia. Absolutely fantastic jet documentary (part 1) and great to see you back on your channel. Some gorgeous class A airspace flying, super jealous of seeing that cloud layer up close and reading the holes. I'm glad you moved the jet onto the taxi centre line: "removing a slice of Swiss cheese." Thankyou 🌏🇭🇲

Great jOB Matt!! t Thanks for sharing

Nice! I love steam gauges

Narcism alive and well. Such cool pilots.

Asks for a top report at 4:30 am lol

is it possible to put a oxygen concentrator like a GGU-7 or a GGU-24 in a L39 as opposed to having a oxygen tank?

That was kind of neat watching you fly through my neck of the woods (KHUT). It would have been interesting seeing you make KAAO as I am familiar with Jabara

What is the FAA process- and the cost- associated with keeping and maintaining hot ejection seats in civilian-owned jets?

DID anyone see the Soviet Fighter Jet from outside in this vid??? Or, anyone knows what soviet Fighter jet he bought so we can search in on RU-vid??

This takes Broke Back Mountain to a whole another level! J/K, enjoy flying gentlemen. Nice jet & paint job. You are flying over cowboys 🍺

Hi, this is a L-39 Albatros of Czechoslovak manufacture, not Soviet.

Are you ready? “I am ready!”

What are you using to keep iphone in your leg?

Hey. Get your own canopy! lol!

Matt I so enjoy your accomplishments and look forward to more.😂😢😮😅😊

WOW

Fuel and McDonalds.. that is all you need!

Nice man purse bro.

Fun times

long waiting jet fighter video

Might un-subscribe after this one It's a f--ing Czech trainer.....

The back seater has very little crm skills

cool, you got another soviet era trainer jet!

You get the cannopy PLEASE .

i have noticed that your center line management on your videos needs help.. glad you said something Matt!

sweeeeeet !!

Anyone knows what’s the pilot wings he’s wearing and how to earn them? Just curious

And yet here we are for the second time, to learn where this plane has been made and what soviet was

At this point it's safe to say you have more Estonian L-39's than our actual air force does 😅

I love the bag!! 👍🏻

Matt: You're turning into the "Tom Cruise" of RU-vid. Another new fighter jet, leather accessories, flight suit, muffed-up hair, avant-garde overall style, single, we assume "rich". Gee!......what more could a guy want?👨‍👩‍👧

The Aircraft has not ice protection ? I wonder why you want to avoid icing condition !

It seems to me that you don`t know what you bought. Because it is not a fighter but trainer and not Soviet but from ex-Czechoslovakia.

Did you sell your first L-39 and need another L-39 to race at Reno?

lol, did you guys just accept ifr when you couldn't actually really enter imc due to ice? No OAT even, good lord.

What did your neighbours think about you blasting off in the pre-dawn hours?

What is the name of the plane?

What’s the deal with FL28 vs FL27?

What ?

When I grow up I want to be just like Matt.

Where does this guy get all the $$$? One telecom in the Midwest doesn't explain any of it

It's not a jet, it is a rocket sled

Not soviet, and not fighter

Still hanging with bro who crashed the plane in the ocean for you tube views?

It's not Soviet!

L-39 is not soviet maan:/

Boys and there toys nice one

I get that at MIT they don't cover basic geography but in grade school you should have learned that Czechoslovakia (the country your jet was built in) and USSR were different countries. Unless perhaps you wanted to prove that the widespread jokes about Americans lacking basic knowledge of geography were indeed rooted in truth.

In 8 minutes descend... WTH kind of clearance is that. A head's up ok but not a clearance.

Enough. Out of here.

Matt's video's use to be awesome. Then he bought a jet and is always looking for cheap gas!!

How do these Soviet fighter jets come, smothered in Cosmoline and wrapped in waxed paper??🤔

L-39 is not soviet, never was.

Pretty disappointing video. Very sloppy flying. No explanation about the need for a new jet or anything like that. Unsubscribed!

Soviet Fighter Jets are like cats, when you get one you get more. :)

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