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| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 15:17 |  | | Views : 520 | | The Mig 17 had 3 cannons - two: 23 mm Cannon, 80 rounds per gun, 160 rounds total. And one 37 mm cannon, 40 rounds total. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 13:11 |  | | Views : 549 | | The Mig 17 was one of the most widely produced jet A/C ever made - in excess of over 12,000 were produced. It never saw action in the Korean War. The jet engine was a Klimov VK afterburning turbojet with a thrust of 5,955 lbf, and 7,423 lbf with afterburner. The afterburning turbojet increased thrust by dumping fuel into the exhaust of the basic engine. Top speed was 711 mph. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 13:03 |  | | Views : 423 | | The purpose of the wing fence was to obstruct the span-wise airflow along the wing, to prevent the entire wing from stalling at once. The Mig 17 wing also lacked taper that the Mig 15 had. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 13:00 |  | | Views : 402 | | The wing fence was often seen on swept-wing A/C, and was located on the upper wing surface and wrapped around to the leading edge. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 12:55 |  | | Views : 364 | | The Mig 17 (advanced from the Mig 15 of the Korean War - where the Mig 15 fought the F86 Sabre), had the easily visible difference of an added "ventral fin" under the rear fuselage (the Mig 15 had none), and the Mig 17 also had an added third "wing fence" on each wing. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 12:47 |  | | Views : 369 | |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 12:46 |  | | Views : 390 | | It proved very effective into the 1960s, when pressed into subsonic dogfights over Vietnam, against much faster US planes such as the F-105 Thunderchief and F-4 Phantom, which were not as maneuverable at such lower-speed, short range engagements. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 27-Dec-16 12:43 |  | | Views : 367 | | The Mig 17 was one of the most successful (introduced in 1952), "Transonic " jet fighters to come out before the advent of the "true supersonic" jet fighter types, such as the Mig 19 and the F-100 Super Sabre. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 20-Dec-16 20:34 |  | | Views : 380 | | Sinter Klaas and his sidekick "Krampus", with his handful of slender stick "switches" used for spanking bad children - the real reason for the lyrics of the song : "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" "Gonna find out who's naughty or nice", "He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake..." |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 19-Dec-16 09:55 |  | | Views : 420 | | I took these pics of the frozen Hurricane and Spitfire in their wintery sarcophagus, and tested the limits of my new (13 yr old) Digital Camera. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 19-Dec-16 09:51 |  | | Views : 448 | | I braved the freezing cold first thing this morning, of -2 deg F (-19 deg C), and trudged through 7" of compacted snow, down from the 11" and 3" snowfalls, walking the dog in Jackson Park, Windsor, Ontario (same locale as Detroit, Michigan). |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #233. MiG 17 | Parked | 18-Dec-16 18:01 |  | | Views : 454 | | The mighty Mikoyan-Gurevich MIG 17 - the Russian high sub-sonic swept wing jet fighter, advanced from the MIG 15 of the Korean War. The wing has a "sickle sweep" compound shape, with a 45 degree angle near the fuselage, and a 42 degree angle for the outboard part of the wings. |
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