Name This Plane (96)

[brady]

????

     


Brady

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[Staga]

Mig-3

[juzz]

Never seen a photo of one with the UB gunpods on before, cool.  

[jato757]

mig 3

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[brady]

 Mig 3,it is  

Brady

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[Vermillion]

I missed the gunpods at first, nice spot, juzz.

Is that a bomb lying seemly at random in the snow in the rear near the tail?

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

[brady]

  yes it is...you don't think it was for that plane do you?...the VVS actually put bombs on their planes?!?!?


Brady

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[Vermillion]

Brady, email me your postal mailing address, I got a present to send to you.   Muahahahhahhahaha

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

[Fishu]

that bomb was just drop there by the krauts, which unfortunately was dud...

right..?

[Staga]

Mig-3 was meant to be a high altitude fighter but instead they used it in a low-level fights where that fighter was doomed.

btw:
I was reading a story of P-39 development when a question came up: How can pilot bail out from Airacobra? Was he able to throw away whole door?

[chunder']

 

Originally posted by Staga:
btw:
I was reading a story of P-39 development when a question came up: How can pilot bail out from Airacobra? Was he able to throw away whole door?

The doors on the P39 were jettisonable in case of an emergency.

[chunder']

In response to the object laying on the ground near the tail, I don't believe that it is a bomb for two reasons: 1)the nose end appears to have an entirely incorrect shape for a bomb; 2)the body of the object appears to rather lumpy and somewhat flatter than it is tall (ie not cylindrical).  Just my opinion though.

[Sorrow[S=A]]

That is a bomb- my suspicion is that in the background somewhere there are Lagg-3 fighters being re-armed too. Mig-3's were mostly assigned to GIAP VVS squadrons that also were the first to fly LaGG-3 fighters. By the time the Mig-3 was no longer used the LaGG was allready flying ground attack missions with Migs providing high cover.
With those pods this would probably be during that time period just as the La-5FN and Yak-9D was starting to appear and the planes were being converted to other uses.

[Seeker]

Chunder, I've read an account of a US pilot's only flat spin in his service career, whilst on a training  flight in a P-39. He blacked out during a dive pull out, and came to at the top of the zoom in a flat "syscamore leaf" spin. After fighting it as long as he could, he started to bail. He opened the door (he didn't "eject it or anything); and as he did so the plane started to come round.
He's always thought that maybe the car type door flapping in the wind made just enough difference to the aircraft attitude.

[chunder']

Interesting story Seeker, maybe opening the door did help, then again maybe the aircraft finally came out of the spin because the pilot let go of the controls... who knows for certain.  Anyway, the P39 did in fact have the capability of jettisoning both doors in the case of an emergency.