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| - The MiG-1 was a Soviet World War II monoplane designed as a high altitude fighter. Flight testing proved that it had many deficiencies, but it was still ordered into production. 100 were built by the time the design was modified into the MiG-3.
- The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 (Микоян-Гуревич МиГ-1) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II that was designed to meet a requirement for a high-altitude fighter issued in 1939. To minimize demand on strategic materials such as aluminum, the aircraft was mostly constructed from steel tubing and wood. Flight testing revealed a number of deficiencies, but it was ordered into production before they could be fixed. Although difficult to handle, one hundred were built before the design was modified into the MiG-3. The aircraft was issued to fighter regiments of the Soviet Air Forces (VVS) in 1941, but most were apparently destroyed during the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
- conceived as a high-altitude interceptor under the OKB's Izdeliya (Product) designation Kh, and also assigned the initial military designation I-200, the MiG-1 was developed in response to an urgent call for a high altitude interceptor, made at a meeting at the Kremlin in January 1939 which had been attended by Josef Stalin. To meet the requirement, Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, designers at the Polikarpov OKB (Experimental Design Bureau), quickly began work on Project K, a new fighter with a Mikulin AM-37 engine and projected top speed of 417 mph (670 km/h).
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| - The MiG-1 was a Soviet World War II monoplane designed as a high altitude fighter. Flight testing proved that it had many deficiencies, but it was still ordered into production. 100 were built by the time the design was modified into the MiG-3.
- conceived as a high-altitude interceptor under the OKB's Izdeliya (Product) designation Kh, and also assigned the initial military designation I-200, the MiG-1 was developed in response to an urgent call for a high altitude interceptor, made at a meeting at the Kremlin in January 1939 which had been attended by Josef Stalin. To meet the requirement, Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, designers at the Polikarpov OKB (Experimental Design Bureau), quickly began work on Project K, a new fighter with a Mikulin AM-37 engine and projected top speed of 417 mph (670 km/h). By the time permission to proceed with production was granted in November, Polikarpov had fallen out of favour with the hierarchy, leading to Mikoyan and Gurevich being granted their own OKB. Work on the new aircraft proceeded quickly, allowing the first aircraft, now designated I-200, to make it's initial flight on 5 April 1940, over a week before the mid April deadline. Powered by a 1,350 hp (1,007 kW) AM-35A, due to delays in development of the AM-37, the I-200 was able to set a new Soviet speed record of 403 mph (649 kn/h) at 22,127 ft (6,900 m), within eight weeks of the first flight. Ordered into production as the MiG-1, the type displayed a number of shortcomings, including instability, short range and vulnerability to damage in combat. This resulted in production being limited to about 100 examples, the last of which were delivered in December 1940. The first eight were fitted with side hinging canopies, while the rest has aft sliding units. The first MiG-1s were delivered during April 1941, by whioch time they had already been replaced on the production line by modified aircraft designated MiG-3.
- The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 (Микоян-Гуревич МиГ-1) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II that was designed to meet a requirement for a high-altitude fighter issued in 1939. To minimize demand on strategic materials such as aluminum, the aircraft was mostly constructed from steel tubing and wood. Flight testing revealed a number of deficiencies, but it was ordered into production before they could be fixed. Although difficult to handle, one hundred were built before the design was modified into the MiG-3. The aircraft was issued to fighter regiments of the Soviet Air Forces (VVS) in 1941, but most were apparently destroyed during the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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