Hobby Boss has released 80337 MiG-17 PFU Fresco E in 1/48 Scale Models assembly kit under Fighter Aircrafts Military Series category
The Soviet MiG-17 fighter had been certainly built to be more stable than its predecessor, The MiG-15 ended up being unstable at higher level and too tight a difference could trigger an uncontrolled snap roll and spin. To overcome this dilemma, the fuselage completed up being lengthened, tiny 'fences' had been arranged regarding top aspects of this wing to regulate airflow, plus the wings swept right back 45 levels. The excess area towards the fuselage enabled the internal design and systems become revised, and a far more angular end was added. These changes offered the aircraft great safety, required for a fruitful tools platform. The MiG-17 joined frontline solution in February, 1953. The Fresco-A maintained 1st VK-1 turbojet the MiG-15. A VK -1F engine with afterburner was in fact then worthy of the most recent Fresco-C, or MiG -17F . A fixed-scan radar had been put into the MiG-17PF, or Fresco-D. The MiG-17PFU, Fresco-E, became the Soviet Union's initial interceptor using its cannon deleted and four air-to-air missiles included.
