Photographs Copyright © Collin Riley 2005-2012 |
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| MiG-15bis,
USAF TC-616 (7616) |
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Power Series. This is a great version of
the MiG-15bis, and Hobby Master should be congratulated for having
the nerve to produce it, despite the chance there may be little interest
from collectors. I've always said I missed seeing this plane in the
flesh, so to speak, by two years. That's because it was tested a Kadena
AFB on Okinawa in 1954, and I ended up on Okinawa in 1956 (where I
saw Hellcat fighters flying about on occasion). I was 13 years old
at the time, and even then would have crawled through a pit of habu
snakes just for the priviledge of sitting for five minutes in a MiG-15
cockpit.
At the time, Russian planes were still a mystery, even the MiG-15,
and those of us interested in such things used to cling to every issue
of Air Progress and it's guestimate drawings (many done, by the way,
by Matt Jefferies who later became an art director on the Star Trek
television series).
My first exposure to a model of the MiG-15 was in the eigth grade,
where a teacher had a wooden model built by his son. The model was
painted red all over; it will be interesting to see if Hobby Master
comes out with a model in the same paint scheme! |
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