Flight Manual for the MIG-15
Flight Manual for the MIG-15
Flight Manual for the MIG-15
Flight Manual for the MIG-15
Flight Manual for the MIG-15
Flight Manual for the MIG-15
Flight Manual for the MIG-15

MIG-15

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Title: MIG-15

The MIG-15 was the first successful post-WW2 Russian jet fighter and first flew in 1947. It was only made possible as the British Labour government at the time wanted to foster closer relations with Russia and sold them examples of the Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet engine, along with a licence to manufacture the engine. Up to that point none of the German derived jet engines available to the Russian aviation industry was reliable or powerful.

The aircraft was developed in great secrecy, and therefore when it was revealed to the West over the skies of North Korea in 1950, it came as a very sudden and unwelcome surprise. It was an extremely capable aircraft, able to mix it with any Western aircraft and much superior to the straight winged jet aircraft them employed on the Korean front-line, and the US was forced to rush the F-86 into the Korean War. The reason the F-86 ended up with a much better kill ratio is really due to the quality of the US pilots and their training.

The aircraft was very popular in the export market, and over 13,000 were eventually produced, the most of any military jet aircraft. The type was also manufactured in Poland, Czechoslovakia and China.

This title contains two flight manuals in English covering the MIG-15 and three scanned Russian publications covering single and twin-seat variants. The files have been scanned from the original flight manuals unless otherwise stated.

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Description

This title contains:

  • Flight Manual for the MIG-15, primarily covers the two-seat UTI but includes data for the single seater and differences between aircraft manufactured in different countries. Produced by Mig-Masters, a US company which offered flight training and displayed MIG-15’s in the mid 1990’s. T.O. 1 Mig-15-1 dated 1 May 1994 with approx. 273 pages. Compiled mainly from existing Russian produced manuals. (In English.)
  • Pilots Manual for the MIG-15bis (single-seater) undated with approx. 112 pages. (In English). (Scanned from a copy, probably a Russian produced manual for a middle-eastern export customer.)
  • Instruction Manual for Technical Operation and Maintenance for the MIG-15 UTI (two seater), comprising two volumes:
    – Book One – Technical Operation and Maintenance of the Aircraft, document RK-100 dated 1954 with approx. 171 pages. (In the Russian language.)
    – Book Two – Technical Operation and Maintenance of Special Equipment, document RK-101 dated 1955 with approx. 187 pages. (In the Russian language.)
  • Technical Description MIG-15bis – Book One – Aircraft Flight Characteristics, dated 1954 with approx. 91 pages. (In the Russian language. There are four books in this set, we only have Book One.)

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