Copyright © Alexei Gretchikhine and Fausto Romeo, 1998. All rights reserved.

In chronological order:

• An official airshow ad picked up at Tempelhof. As a quick exercise, find all errors and compare with what I have found
• Eugeny Frolov. Briefly before displaying. A photo opportunity.
• Rubbing the tip before display brings luck. Signing authographs -- does not.
• Driver of Su-37MR moments before takeoff
• Sukhoi's top brass bar Simonov.
• Sukhoi Su-37MR. In flight
• Sukhoi Su-37MR. Landing
• Sukhoi Su-37MR. 5 o'clock. Taxi
• Sukhoi Su-37MR. 1 o'clock. Taxi
• New stickers in details... South American. Static
• The toughest part of the job...
• Shortly after treating us with performance. Surrounded by Sukhoi personnel
• Sukhoi Su-37MR. 7 o'clock. Static
• Sukhoi technicians putting protective covers on the jet nozzles. Note the contrasting size.
• Symbolic. Three generations of Luftwaffe aircraft. The leftmost Tornado is a noise maker -- it never took off. Static
• Luftwaffe MiG-29. 12 o'clock. Static
• Luftwaffe MiG-29. 2 o'clock. Taxi
• Luftwaffe MiG-29. 7 o'clock. Taxi
• MAPO MIG MiG-29SMT. 11 o'clock. Static
• Note bulged spine hosting conformal fuel. MAPO MIG MiG-29SMT. 4 o'clock. Static
• MAPO MIG MiG-29SMT. 6 o'clock. Static
• IRST closeup of the MiG-29SMT
• A dummy of the Tompson's targeting pod under MiG-29SMT
• Closeup of the refueling probe of SMT
• Mislabeled... Or is it? MAPO MIG MiG-29SMT. 8 o'clock. Static
• Sukhoi Su-37MR. New index, new stickers, but same old same old... Static
• Another show another flag. When An-70 appeared at MAKS97, it had freshly added russian banner. ILA98 brought new perspectives and one more flag to signify potential german involvment. It is barely detectable (flag, not involvment) -- stuck to the russian tricolor. An-70. Static
• Closeup of the An-70 propfan
• "Europe goes further"... with another wooden wonder. Model
• "D2" must be for dejawu. Hypersonic research vehicle. Static
• Sukhoi Su-37MR. 3 o'clock. Static
• New Sukhoi aircraft. Err.. Is that what was meant in flier? Static
• An-2 extravaganza. In flight

1. "VKP MAPO/MiG" should read either VPK MAPO or MIG MAPO
2. Latest MiG-29 version which made to ILA was MiG-29SMT...
3. ...which did not feature "thrust vector control" (of what? Shouldn't it be thrust vectored nozzle control?)
4. What is MiG-35?
5. Simonov would be happy to learn that Su-37 is "thrust-vector controlled". But again, so is the AL-31F's nozzle
6. S-37 at Berlin. Good one!
7. To "display abroad" for the first time Yak-130 had chosen Le Burge 97
8. An-140 joined S-37 in NOT debuting at ILA 98