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Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-170 ''Draco-A''

119k DestinyAviation  6.2 years ago

Notes
-Good cockpit view
-Has auto-roll, I was not able to fix it (it does not have a scaled cockpit or custom landing gear)

Controls
-Action groups 1&2: Fire missiles
-Action group 3: Jettison drop tank
-Action group 7: Deploy parachute

Designed in late 1959 by the Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB, the MiG Ye-170 was meant as a medium-altitude interceptor. It carried four K-9 missiles as well as an external fuel tank for long-duration flights. It was extremely maneuverable for an aircraft of its size, earning it the NATO reporting name of "Draco" (coming from the Greek word for dragon). As well as having this extreme agility, it also was blisteringly fast, reaching speeds of nearly 1,200 miles per hour (~1,900 kilometers per hour) at an altitude of 24,000 feet (~7.3 kilometers). Pilots had to wear specialized suits to protect them from the extreme g-forces encountered at these speeds. This combined with the already cramped cockpit gave the aircraft the nickname of "The Supersonic Coffin" by some of its pilots. Out of the 150 aircraft ordered, only 25 were completed and shipped to their respective buyers, which included; Finland, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and Iraq. Some license-built versions by the Chinese ended up being purchased by Israel and saw extremely limited combat during the Six-Day War. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the remaining Dracos still in service were retired, and only two were kept. One was later destroyed en route to an air show after its engine exploded, causing the aircraft to burst into flames and plummet from the sky. Miraculously, the pilot survived and managed to bail out of the plane. The second aircraft, over concerns of flight-safety, was left in the field that had once been its base of operations, and it still sits there to this day.

Haha, does anyone actually read this history section?

General Characteristics

  • Created On Mac
  • Wingspan 41.3ft (12.6m)
  • Length 84.5ft (25.8m)
  • Height 23.1ft (7.1m)
  • Empty Weight 43,675lbs (19,811kg)
  • Loaded Weight 66,976lbs (30,380kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 4.697
  • Wing Loading 83.6lbs/ft2 (408.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 801.3ft2 (74.4m2)
  • Drag Points 11063

Parts

  • Number of Parts 170
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 894
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    25.4k Mustang51

    Cheers man! Thanks for checking them out :) @DestinyAviation

    6.1 years ago
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    @Mustang51 Yeah, your SU-11 is awesome! The PF is also really well done.

    6.1 years ago
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    @Mustang51 Oh, that's so cool! Croatia is a beautiful country. And yeah, I'll check them out!

    6.1 years ago
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    25.4k Mustang51

    I’m partly Croatian so whenever I’m at the airport there in the capital, I get to see MiG-21s fly around a lot. It’s really great! I made some old soviet aircraft recently too I’d you wanna check them out :) @DestinyAviation

    +1 6.1 years ago
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    @Mustang51 I know right? They're so interesting!

    6.1 years ago
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    25.4k Mustang51

    Ahhh that’s it! I knew I saw it somewhere before but I just wasn’t sure which one it was. I love soviet planes from that era @DestinyAviation

    6.1 years ago
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    @Mustang51 Lol, just had to nerd out a bit

    6.1 years ago
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    @Mustang51 MiG-21 and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG Ye-150 series

    6.1 years ago
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    25.4k Mustang51

    No problem! Did you also mostly base it off a Mig-21 or did other aircraft come in to play too? @DestinyAviation

    6.1 years ago
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    @Mustang51 Hmm, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for your suggestions!

    6.1 years ago
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    25.4k Mustang51

    It could for hours but with mine, some some unknown reason, it hardly worked at all. Even with three gyros on max power @DestinyAviation

    6.1 years ago
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    @Mustang51 Maybe. I'm not really in the mood to remake an entire wing, lol. Maybe fitting a gyroscope could also help...?

    6.1 years ago
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    @BogdanX Oh, that makes total sense! I'll change it and see how it flies. Thanks so much!

    6.1 years ago
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    25.4k Mustang51

    When it changes it doesn’t fully stop rolling but when I make Russian jets of this style I always have to go through at least an hour of tweaking the main wings to make the rolling stop. In my Su-11 (very similar styled plane to this) I had to just remake the wing of the opposite side the plane was rolling to and refit it. Maybe that’ll work here. @DestinyAviation @BogdanX

    6.2 years ago