Cutaway Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-9 The first jet fighter of the Soviet firm after taking over the technology of the German jet engines BMW 003 and Jumo 004 created after discarding the design of the N-250 fighter also known as MiG-13 this was Powered by a Klimov P-107 that drove a compressor and sent air to a set of combustion chambers for a brief period, it did not see large production numbers. At the end of the war, the Soviet Union was concerned about advances in jet engines by both the defeated Nazis and the Western Allies (the US and England). This is how Stalin entrusted the design of modern jet aircraft to his fighter design and construction offices, responding to all the firms: Lavochkin, Sukhoi, Yakovlev and MiG, the latter being the ones that presented designs in 1946, Yakovlev presented for the first time its Yak-15, but the first flight was authorized for the MiG-9 prototype even though the Yak-15 had previously been denied the inaugural test flight permit...! The initial flight was carried out not without incidents since both fighters were built in record time and had multiple flaws, especially the MiG product. I give my opinion since the lighter and simpler Yak-15 was actually a Yak-3. to which the piston engine had been eliminated and in its place the adaptation was made to receive a Jumo 004 engine (without major complications) and later known as 010, the risks were much lower than those faced by the MiG design office with Their proposal, a larger and heavier twin-engine fighter, a novel concept in general but that showed a lot of the Soviet construction philosophy "Simplicity" is that when comparing both products with those developed in the West, with France now incorporated into the race, the Soviets They fell behind these. However, despite the immaturity of both Soviet designs, they were accepted for rapid testing and evaluation. Production would later begin, not without many problems, especially with the new MiG-9, quality problems in assembly, vibrations, structural with torn and in other cases twisted tail surfaces, one of these failures derived from the death during a test demonstration flight. pilot who did not comply with instructions not to make sudden maneuvers with the fighter, losing control after the detachment of a surface of a fairing that rendered the tail surfaces useless with tragic consequences. Although much heavier than the Yak-15, its approximate empty weight of 3,500 kg was on par with Western piston fighters and below the weight of modern twin-engine aircraft. Few units of the MiG-9 "Fargo" (name given by NATO) will be produced, only a few hundred and were used only by the Soviet Union and China, however, this was not without reason for different versions and developments, including the two-seater and in the latest deliveries of versions armed with 4 side cannons and an elevated cabin with greater visibility, with a recently created ejection seat (I already tried it in the two-seater version). This speculative cut created from multiple black and white photographs, screenshots from the few videos available to recreate as accurately as possible this cut. which turns out to be the first made in the classical technique beyond the manufacturer's original (somewhat crude) drawings for his manuals. Author Motocar 07/25/2023