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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Two newly-arrived Su-30 jet fighters make test flights

Two new Sukhoi jet fighter aircraft which arrived in Indonesia from Russia on December 26, 2008 made test flights at Sultan Hassanuddin military airbase in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Tuesday.

Sultan Hassanuddin airbase spokesman Col Arif Mustofa told Antara here by phone the test flights with the two Sukhoi Su-30MK2s with serial numbers TS3003 and TS3004 were conducted by a Russian pilot.

He said the test flights were done to make sure all systems in the newly-arrived Sukhoi jet fighters were functioning well.

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