Mikoyan's Piston-Engined Fighters

This latest title in Midland's Red Star series describes in detail the first aircraft--a series of piston-engined fighters--produced by the famous Mikoyan Design Bureau during and immediately after World War II. The first of these, the I-200 of 1940, entered limited production the following year as the MiG-1, which was quickly developed into the MiG-3, a high altitude interceptor. This book discusses these aircrafts' operational history and describes the standard production type and...
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This latest title in Midland's Red Star series describes in detail the first aircraft--a series of piston-engined fighters--produced by the famous Mikoyan Design Bureau during and immediately after World War II. The first of these, the I-200 of 1940, entered limited production the following year as the MiG-1, which was quickly developed into the MiG-3, a high altitude interceptor. This book discusses these aircrafts' operational history and describes the standard production type and the experimental variants. It also covers the unusual I-250 (N) mixed-power fighter, which, with a 'pseudo-turbojet' booster, had a top speed of 513 mph--impressive in its day. Though only a handful were built, the I-250 was the final step toward the MiG-9 of 1945, the Soviet Union's first true jet fighter.