Mig's for sale

[hunty]

Gents


Buy one get one free.


Albania offers collectors its Communist-era airborne glory

[Wander00]

Obviously for sale by a greengrocer...................

[Flarkey]

Originally Posted by Wander00

Obviously for sale by a greengrocer...................

or greengrocer's?

[Tankertrashnav]

I thought "Mig's what?"

Sorry Hunty, actually it's an interesting article, but I expect you wish you hadn't bothered now

[NutLoose]

I do hope they at least retain one of each for their museum, if indeed they have one.

[Rosevidney1]

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]

Originally Posted by NutLoose

I do hope they at least retain one of each for their museum, if indeed they have one.

Thought it was a museum

[Backinblack]

It dont need even to North Korea. Only civilian)

[sandiego89]

Originally Posted by Rosevidney1

....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.....