Post by nikolas mäkiLaskepa vielä mittarien määrää, nappuloiden määrää ja sijaintia sekä
laatua. Huomaat jotain (ehkä).
Mitä oikein haluat?
Nyt on moneen kertaan todettu, että alkuperäisessä kuvassa on taatusti
MiG-15 tai -17, tuskin -19. Vaihtoehdot ovat tuossa.
Asia varmaan selviää jopa kysymällä suoraan museolta. Tosin väittely on
tietysti hauskaa sekin : )
Nokitetaanpa:
Koska kyse on vanhasta MiG:stä, jossa on ilmeisesti asennettuna vanha
amerikkalainen AN/ARC-3 radio ja joka ilmeisimmin asuu Wright-Patterson
AFB:llä, arvaan, että kyse on tuosta MiG-15bis -koneyksilöstä:
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Koneen historia löytyy tuolta:
http://www.vectorsite.net/avmig15_1.html
kohdasta "[1.8] MIG-15 IN SERVICE":
"* Late in the war, the Americans dropped leaflets over enemy airfields
offering $100,000 USD to any pilot who would defect with a MiG-15. The
exercise was codenamed OPERATION MOOLAH, with "moolah" being an antique
American slang term for "big money". One Russian source, understandably
baffled, translated it as OPERATION MULLAH, which must have seemed almost as
baffling. Although no doubt loud threats were made about reprisals, a
Lieutenant Ro Kim Suk did decide to take up the offer and flew his MiG-15bis
south on 21 September 1953.
The aircraft was evaluated by famed USAF test pilot Chuck Yeager, who made a
number of arguable statements about it in his autobiography, suggesting not
only that it was extremely dangerous in a dive, but that Soviet pilots he
had chatted with during later trip to the USSR agreed with him. When the
said pilots found out about this claim, they all replied: "BULLSHIT!". One
Russian source suggested that the claim was an invention of Yeager's
co-author, apparently being unaware of Yeager's notorious windiness and
inclination to exaggerate accomplishments that were impressive enough not to
need it. Ro Kim Suk's MiG is now on display at the US Air Force Museum in
Dayton, Ohio."
