“Solve one of the most important tasks”: 80 years since the first MiG-1 flight
2020-04-05T07:27:28.542Z
April 5, 1940 the first flight of the MiG-1 fighter took place. The aircraft successfully passed state tests. Its modification MiG-3 was massively used during the Great Patriotic War. On one of these fighters, in particular, the Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the most successful aces of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, Alexander Pokryshkin, began to fight and won his first victories three times. “The designers Mikoyan and Gurevich managed to solve one of the most important tasks facing domestic fighter aircraft at that time - to sharply increase the speed of horizontal flight,” Colonel-General Alexander Ponomarev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, wrote about the creation of the MiG-1.
Source: russiart