Got this from a pilot buddy. Caption said that this happened at an airshow in KS in 1990. The pilot misjudged his altitude as he came down the back side of a loop and saw that ground impact was imminent. Looks like he dropped the wing flaps as he pulled hard on the stick to avoid ground impact and almost certain death. Tail supposedly dug a 12-inch furrow on the field. Aircraft is a surplus Russian/Soviet MiG-17, one of two MiG types that gave American pilots fits over Vietnam, the other being the MiG-21. (The earlier, non-afterburning MiG-15 fought in Korea in 1950-53.)
