A farm near Nagygyimot / Papa, Hungary 15th October 2019

A farm near Nagygyimot / Papa, Hungary 15th October 2019 Nov 7, 2019 17:38:29 GMT 1 ian531, vanguard, and 6 more like this

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Post by Airbus A346 on Nov 7, 2019 17:38:29 GMT 1

If you go down into the woods today you can be sure of a big suprize, a farm field with 35 fighters abandoned on it - thirty Mig 21 Fishbeds and five Sukhoi Su-22 Fitters.

This location is relatively unknown and unpublicised for good reasons. When Papa airbase closed there were 80 redundant aircraft in storage (Mig 21s, Mig 23s, and

Su-22s) about half of them went to collections and museums and the rest abandoned. Papa was taken over by NATO, demolished and completely rebuilt, it is now a

regular stop-over for C-17 Globemasters. The abandoned Migs are outside of the new base perimeter on a farm which has an old overgrown taxiway running through it,

and derelict bunkers - presumably left over from the the old Cold War airbase. The aircraft have become a target for urban explorers, trophy hunters, spotters and

photographers - the farmer gets very irrate with people driving through his farm, and his dogs are none too friendly. To keep people off the field a waist high electrified

fence has been erected with warning signs in Dutch, English and Hungarian, plus CCTV. If you enter the field he will call the Police and Military Police. The aircraft are still

the property of the Hungarian Armed Forces. I used a longer and lesser known off road route, luckily October is a very dry month so it was passable, in wet weather a

Land Rover would be needed. It would be very fool hardy to trespass on the field - so please don't.

There is a video on You Tube, three guys possibly Dutch from a group called UrbEx - they drive through the farm, enter the field and climb on to the Migs looking into

the cockpits. The consequences are inevitable .... worth watching just for the stupidity of it.