MiG - Fifty years of secret aircraft design

- Filled with hundreds of photographs and line drawings.
- Tells for the first time in Engish the story behind Russian’s most secret fighter design bureau
- Written by the longtime head of the bureau with an international aviation expert specializing in Russian aircraft.
- Presents the most current MiG designs within the context of every version since 1941
- Documents a half-century of landmark technical progress in aviation history
- Relates the global circumstances that spawned the MiG enterprise and how it grew into a formidable cold war opponent for the United States.
The West’s first look at this secret Russian design bureau describes every MIG version since 1941, including today’s front-line models.
Details the mistakes and dead ends as well as the innovations and triumphs.
496 pgs., 334 photos, 6"x9"