Lucky dog.................
Actually, I got to see the Russian Antonov 128 heavy lift cargo airplane and the Russian heavy lift cargo helicopter at an airshow down at (the now closed) Brown Field in Chula Vista, CA back in the late 1980s. But nothing like seeing a dozen or so Backfire bombers (in various states of disrepair) lined up on the tarmac with an equally long line of armed Russian soldiers guarding them. And then there was the coolness of inspecting a flight test version of the Russian Buran shuttle and seeing where the incorrectly copied our shuttle’s functionality. /needless gloating ;)