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Gents
Buy one get one free.:D
Albania offers collectors its Communist-era airborne glory (http://news.yahoo.com/albania-offers-collectors-communist-era-124313867.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=fb)
Wander00
8th Mar 2016, 15:07
Obviously for sale by a greengrocer...................
Flarkey
8th Mar 2016, 16:06
Obviously for sale by a greengrocer...................
or greengrocer's?
Tankertrashnav
8th Mar 2016, 16:41
I thought "Mig's what?"
Sorry Hunty, actually it's an interesting article, but I expect you wish you hadn't bothered now ;)
NutLoose
8th Mar 2016, 17:55
I do hope they at least retain one of each for their museum, if indeed they have one.
Rosevidney1
8th Mar 2016, 19:35
MiG-15s & MiG-17s are not rare beasts on this side of the old 'iron curtain' but I'd like to see some enterprising souls get some MiG-19s over here. The Farmer was the first aircraft to achieve supersonic speed in level flight to see service.
Pontius Navigator
9th Mar 2016, 07:48
I do hope they at least retain one of each for their museum, if indeed they have one.
Thought it was a museum
Backinblack
9th Mar 2016, 09:55
It dont need even to North Korea. Only civilian)
sandiego89
9th Mar 2016, 14:05
....The Farmer was the first aircraft to achieve supersonic speed in level flight to see service.
Was it? Or did the F-100 beat it into "service"? I believe each was the was the first level supersonic aircraft for their countries, but it may depend on how you define first and "in service". Seems the F-100A saw sqaudron service in September 1954 with the 479th sqaudron, but then a grounding and then being declared operational in September 1955 (wiki)
Looks like the production version of the MiG 19 started in 1954. With a quick internet search I could not find a firm in sqaudron in service date.
Looks like they both had a nasty introduction with both have stability issues, and the F-100's having a tendancy for crashing and MiG-19's blowing up.....:sad: