This profile represents a MiG-1 captured by Germans and exposed probably
in Berlin during 1942. There was a propaganda exhibition called "Russenparadies".
This exhibition was bombed by German communists, under the leadership of
Bruno Baum.
The aircraft is one of 22 captured in near flyable condition in the
first days of war.
In the photo it appears lacking of some small panels and with tyres
down, not on flyable conditions; probably it was never flown with these
colors..
Its charachteristics are:
MiG-1, with smaller radiator than MiG-3, shorter fuselage, different undercarriage
doors and wheels, without slats;
without radio gear (the radio equipment and mast could have been originarily
present, because the photo shows a hole in correspondance of the radio
mast root);
originarily painted with a green background, probably with dark green stripes
applied shortly before the capture (the dark band on the wingroot appears
worn, but less worn than the lighter green);
the aircraft looks widely repainted with German yellow, Gelb 04, as usual
on most captured aircrafts; the tail painting is hypothetical, because
it doesn't appear on the photo; the external part of the upper face of
the wings is yellow too;
the fuselage and wingroots was repainted with a slightly darker color,
probably dunkelgrun 71, to delete stars and wearing traces; the repaintings
were made in such way to seem a camo scheme;
there are not black crosses over the wings, nor codes.
