🔥 It's hard to imagine that we live in a world where you can see the iconic flicker of the MiG-17 afterburner over a "secret" Air Force Base
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5 engine, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529, 1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
💡Fun fact: Klimov VK-1F itself was a reverse engineered version of Rolls-Roys Nene jet engine, after Rolls-Royce sold some to USSR and also trained the engineers at Rolls-Royce factory in UK
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
🖼️ Prints available, link in bio 🔗
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