updated on July 6, 2005
file name: mig1red8.html
This aircraft is a series MiG-1 of unknown
unit, possibly 31 IAP or 41 IAP; it was captured, with many other MiGs,
on an airfield in the first days of war.
From another image, taken in a later date from the other side, the
typical characteristics of MiG-1 are recognizable.
from Barbarossa Victims
The aircraft MiG-1differs from early type MiG-3 for:
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the length was still 8,15 m ;
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the last exhaust stack is slightly overposed to the rear side plate;
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there are 7 ventilation slots on each side (instead than 6 as on early
series MiG-3);
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some bulges and intakes over the nose were absent, and a small air intake
under the nose was smaller;
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the tail wheel doors are without any bulge or window;
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the underwing removable panels for guns pods ammo were absent;
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the water radiator fairing and main landing gear were different from MiG-3;
they had smaller wheels, different doors shape, and foldable wheel flaps
as on I-16, instead of the wheel doors as on MiG-3;
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the supercharger intakes at the wingroots had shorter lips, particularly
the upper ones.
The general finish is similar to the most of early MiG-3s:
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overall AII green over AII light blue;
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the shade of color on the metallic parts is faded and lighter than the
wooden parts (rear fuselage, wings outer consoles); the propeller appears
dark;
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the red stars have black outline and are in six positions: fuselage, wings
upper and undersurfaces;
the propeller was unpainted alluminium, with the back partially painted
black and very worn.