It seems that the new Mig-17 by airfix has a bum wing. The shape isn't quite right. I happened to find this out of a Soviet Maintenance manual. All photo credit goe to Stimpy from the 72nd scale model forum
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| Difference between the airfix kit and plans. |
Photos are pictures I took at the 8th Air Force Museum located outside Savannah Georgia.
I liked your partial drawing of the Mig-17. It took me a few seconds understand what I was looking at. I think I speak for many in noteing wing sweep backs are based on that of the quarter chord. Although this plane has a definite alignment between trailing edge and the quarter chord. Many planes do not. I see them moaning about 1/4 chord of wing sweep on F-86 kits recently as not being in the right place. In all the years of modeling, wing sweep was taken to mean the leading edge except those with a pronounced wing glove or a sharper sweep at the root of the wing. It's remarkable that the FJ-3 and F-86 have nearly the same wing sweep as does the FJ-4. The wing area behind this imaginary 1/4 chord are the same for all three? Did you add this drawing because of the "War Eagle" kits or any Mig-17 kit?
ReplyDeleteWow . what a group of errors. Makes me think Airfix hired a designer to do a 3-D computer model then rwen with it to get tooling done without doing any checking. I can live with most detail errors (even though they must have Mig=17 in England to compare it to), Though the 3-D may have been done in a third world and forwarded to India for tooling cost savings. That WOW in the leading edge is an unbelievable error.
ReplyDeleteI could not believe how big the airifx wing is. I almost drop down the 20 bucks to purchase the kit. This is like you said when you get a third world CAD designer. Shame on airfix for not catching the problem.
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