Scale Aircraft Modelling  |  December 2018
BIG MIG, LITTLE MIG
The MiG-15, NATO designation Fagot, was used extensively in combat during the Korean War. It was the first ‘all new’ Soviet jet aircraft, one whose design did not simply add a jet engine onto an older piston engine airframe. Employing swept back wings, a tail fin and horizontal stabilizers to reduce drag as the aircraft approached the speed of sound, it clearly exploited aerodynamic principles learned from German engineering at the close of World War II. It was powered by a centrifugal flow engine that had been licensed from the British company Rolls-Royce and then upgraded by the Soviet manufacturer Klimov. Deliveries to the military began in 1948. The MiG-15 carried a formidable armament of two 23mm guns and one 37mm gun.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Scale Aircraft Modelling December 2018.