Mikoyan MiG-19: Famous Russian Aircraft

Author:   Dmitriy Komissarov ,  Yefim Gordon (Author)
Publisher:   Crecy Publishing
ISBN:  

9781910809075


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Created by the famous Mikoyan Design Bureau in the early 1950s, the MiG-19 fighter was the Soviet Union's first true supersonic fighter that could exceed Mach 1 in level flight. The baseline version with conventional elevators (known to the West as Farmer-A) achieved initial operational capability with the Soviet Air Force as early as 1954, concurrently with its American counterpart, the F-100 Super Sabre. Vertical maneuverability was soon found to be inadequate and led the Mikoyan OKB to create a version with an all-flying horizontal tail--the MiG-19S Farmer-C day fighter, which was built and operated on a much wider scale. The radar-equipped first Soviet supersonic all-weather interceptor, the MiG-19P soon followed together with the MiG-19PM armed with a quartet of beam-riding air-to-air missiles. Special versions also included the SM-50 and SM-51 prototypes equipped with a liquid-fuel rocket booster to improve high-altitude performance and the SM-30 with a zero-length launch capability. In addition to serving its home country, the MiG-19 was exported to the Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact allies including China who created its own variants which had no Soviet equivalent such as the JJ-6 trainer and the radical Q-5 attack aircraft. In this latest book in the Famous Russian Aircraft series, the authors describe the MiG-19's development and its operational history at home and abroad including its involvement in conflicts in Asia and the Middle East. Over 600 black and white and color photos, many hitherto unpublished combine with color side views and cutaway drawings to provide a detailed insight for historians and modelers alike.

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Author:   Dmitriy Komissarov ,  Yefim Gordon (Author)
Publisher:   Crecy Publishing
Imprint:   Crecy Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.155kg
ISBN:  

9781910809075


ISBN 10:   1910809071
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Whether you're looking for the best reference to tackle Trumpeter's 1/32 MiG-19 or fill in the gaps of when/how/why certain avionics, weapons, or other distinctive capabilities first appeared into the Mikoyan family tree, this title will fill the gap between Gordon's MiG-17 and MiG-21 references. --Michael Benolkin Cybermodeler Online (03/21/2018)


... the ultimate biography of the Farmer in all its myriad prototype and production forms... this book should be the last word on the MiG-19. -- (06/10/2019) Whether you're looking for the best reference to tackle Trumpeter's 1/32 MiG-19 or fill in the gaps of when/how/why certain avionics, weapons, or other distinctive capabilities first appeared into the Mikoyan family tree, this title will fill the gap between Gordon's MiG-17 and MiG-21 references. --Michael Benolkin Cybermodeler Online (03/21/2018)


Author Information

Yefim Gordon was born in 1950 in Vilnius, Lithuania, and graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnical Institute in 1972 as an engineer/electronics designer. He has been a resident of Moscow since 1973, when, as a hobby, he started collecting photographs and books on the history of Soviet aviation. This has now developed into a major archive. Since the 1980s he has been a professional aviation journalist and writer, with over 80 books published on Soviet/Russian aviation in Russian, English, Polish and Czech, as well as close to 120 magazine features and photo reports. He is also an accomplished photographer, with countless photos published in the western press; the current edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft features more than 50 of his photographs.

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