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Offline perttime

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MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« on: October 26, 2013, 12:36:58 AM »
I didn't see an inspiration thread for MiG-3 (or MiG-1, and other close relatives)...

It seems to me, that a DB605 engine (with Motorkanone?) would fit on a MiG 3.
It might require a taller landing gear, though? Or just shorter prop blades and more of them.

Here's a couple of 1942 aircraft recognition pages on MiG-1. Notice the open cockpit used in the drawings:
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2013, 12:52:26 AM »
1 word: Batplane
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2013, 03:48:33 AM »
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2013, 07:38:33 AM »
Is it wrong to think that that MiG looks sooooo right in those colors and markings?  8)
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2013, 07:44:34 AM »
I wonder how an ALiison-powered MiG-3 would look?  Either Lend-lease engines or an after-war, after fall of Soviet Union, more likely, version for warbird enthusiasts, much like the Allison-powered Yaks that appeared.
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2013, 09:25:00 AM »
I suspect it would look very similar.
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2013, 09:29:45 AM »
I have long thought the MiG-3 looks like a Sovietized YP-37 (which had an Allison V-1710) :

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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2013, 03:40:18 PM »
Quote from: elmayerle on October 26, 2013, 07:44:34 AM
I wonder how an ALiison-powered MiG-3 would look?
I'm pretty sure that at least some of the few currently flying MiG-3s were built with Allisons. Does this look like an Allison to you?

MIG-3 (Allison V-1710 powered)

Oh, for lots of material on the MiG-3 family, you've got to browse http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/mig3.html
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2013, 03:13:41 AM »
I like the MiG-3-82:



Which you can get a kit of...if you are into such scales:


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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2013, 03:15:40 AM »
Random idea:  MiG-3 with rocket booster in tail.
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2013, 03:18:43 AM »
Another random idea:  do a MiG-3 up in USAAC/USAAF scheme and see how many people you can fool into thinking it was really an American fighter prototype... :icon_ninja:
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2013, 06:15:44 PM »
A Finnish MiG-3 would be a might-have-been...
In 1942, Germany was selling 20+ captured ones. They were never delivered, apparently because they were destroyed in an air raid.

... as if VL and the other factories needed to cope with another aircraft and engine type without any manuals...
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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2013, 02:45:30 PM »
You were saying...

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Re: MiG-3 ideas & inspiration
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2013, 03:30:58 PM »
Somebody needs to find correct Finnish wartime "roundels"  :o  ;D
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