My favorite fighter growing up, post reading Red Storm Rising, I devoured everything I could find on the Mig29.
A Canadian CF18 pilot was the first westerner to fly it by all accounts, when the Soviets/Russians came to Canada near the fall of the Soviet Union on a goodwill tour with a flight of Fulcrums. Fantastic story below if you have 15 minutes to spare, some great info about the Fulcrum from a person who flew it first hand back at the end of the cold war.
http://www.capa-acca.com/canadian_mig_flight.htm
