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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed
GTX_Admin:
As a start, has anyone considered converting one of Eduard's new 1/48 MiG-21 kits into an operational Ye-2?
dy031101:
I was going to ask if Ye-7PD could be what-ifed into a carrier aircraft for industries with no access to catapults or thrust-vectoring engine tech, but then I heard that its slow-speed handling is so bad that its test pilot had to activate the afterburner just to land the thing......
GTX_Admin:
--- Quote from: dy031101 on April 22, 2012, 09:02:23 AM ---I was going to ask if Ye-7PD could be what-ifed into a carrier aircraft for industries with no access to catapults or thrust-vectoring engine tech, but then I heard that its slow-speed handling is so bad that its test pilot had to activate the afterburner just to land the thing......
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Maybe in the whiff verse, those aspects were overcome?
GTX_Admin:
Maybe also for the carrier version one could give it a VG wing ala the Su-17?
Daryl J.:
The YE-2 is exactly what I hope to do with Eduard's F-13 variant when it comes out. Notice the vertical stab is quite a bit thinner in chord on the MiG-21F than it is on the F-13's.
Perhaps a swing-wing MF.
I love the ogival winged Tu-144 test aircraft as well featured a number of years ago in Fine Scale Modeler. That would look great on the MF & bis as well.
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