Mikoyan-Gurjevič MiG-17 was a continuation of good MiG-15 and 15bis. At first glance distinguish them from new with a broken wing leading edge and the three aerodynamic fences, which enabled it to slightly exceed the speed of sound. At first it drove (as well as the MiG-15bis) VK-1 engines (copy Rolls-Royce Nene), later given more powerful VK-1F afterburning. MiG-17s were built under license in our country, in Poland and in China as the Shenyang J-5/F-5; combat were deployed to the Middle East in Vietnam ...
Kit U.S. firms DUMAS Aircraft is the ideal machine for hobbyists who already has at least basic experience in building small models powered by rubber (as the first model to obtain basic experience with classical building is recommended to build as one of the high-wing cabin from Guillow's or HERR ). You will improve in the works "žbrdličkové" fuselage and wings, paper coating and painting, preparation and maintenance of the rubber volume zalétávání - just all those wonderful skills modelařiny genuine classic. At the same time the building is not much you expect hundreds of hours in the workshop thanks to a highly preprocessed laser engraved works it goes like clockwork.
Kit free-flying semiscales sovětskéhokého jet fighter aircraft designed for propulsion by rubber. The model is simple but classic balsa construction in Rozsyp with laser carved wooden parts, scale accessories from vacuum-molded plastic and plastic parts drawn by injection molding. The hull is constructed right minimaketářskou technology with dividers and plenty of stringers, which allow faithfully reproduce the rounded shapes of modern machines. Built in two steps - thanks to "slit" in the vertical plane stand directly on the countertop first half of the fuselage, and then the "dolepíte" half a second. Thus it is ensured that the hull complicated shapes stand straight and symmetrical, without needing any special preparations. The wing is a classic design of beams and ribs, tail strips of balsa wood and laser-carved pieces.
Kit includes: Laser cut balsa parts, balsa wood beams, vacuum-molded parts (canopy ...), plastic propeller shaft and head, rubber harness (FAI contest rubber TAN II), bicycles, steel strings on chassis and other small parts, colored lining paper sheet of stickers, building plan.
| Span [mm] | 457 |
| Controlled functions | No |
| Building intensity | S1, S2 |
| Difficulty piloting | P0 |
