Book Review of Single No. 05
Mikoyan Gurevich Mig-17F/Lim-5
Authors: Dariusz Karras & Karolina Holda
Mushroom Model Publication Book (MMP)
ISBN: 978-83-65958-62-4
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $11.99
ISBN: 978-83-65958-62-4
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $11.99
HISTORY:
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants.
It is an advanced development of the similar looking MiG-15 of the Korean War. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.
MiG-17s first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and later proved to be an effective threat against more modern supersonic fighters of the United States in the Vietnam War.
It was also briefly known as the Type 38 by U.S. Air Force designation prior to the development of NATO codes.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Role: Fighter aircraft
National origin: Soviet Union
Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich
First flight: 14 January 1950
Introduction to service: October 1952
Status: In limited service.
Primary users: Soviet Air Forces (historical), People's Liberation Army Air Force (historical), Polish Air Force (historical), Vietnam People's Air Force (historical)
Number built: 10,649 including Polish, Czech and Chinese variants
Developed from: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Variants: PZL-Mielec Lim-6, Shenyang J-5
Developed into: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
THE BOOK:
Mushroom Model Publications (MMP) is based in the UK. All their books are printed by their associate Stratus in Poland in the English language.
Stratus also does their own line of books in both Polish and English.
This book is soft cover of 24 pages in 8 1/4" x 11 3/4" page format.
The cover is bright yellow with a color top view of a Mig-17F (Polish designation Lim-5).
Upper surfaces and sides are painted light-grey, green and sand. Lower surfaces are light-blue. It has the Polish Air Force red and white checkerboard insignia in the rudder and fuselage sides and a red stenciled serial no. 1023 on the sides of the nose. Black BG2-01920965 is painted on the port under-wing tank.
It was with the 61st Air Combat Training Regiment, Biala Podlaska ca. 1985.
This scheme is seen again in the last pages of the book as a color 4-view. Colors are also shown in patches with FS numbers.
This Mig-17 on the cover art has its left wing bent around the spine of the book and partially on the back cover.
The book starts with 6 1/72nd scale line drawings of the Mig-17F along with illustrations of the bulkheads inside the fuselage.
There is also 4 1/48th scale line drawings, also with the bulkhead illustrations.
There are 10 illustrations for maintenance manuals with names of the parts shown.
There are 7 black and white photos of the whole aircraft shown and 31 black and white walk-around type photos.
There are 5 color photos of the cockpit interior and 3 more color photos of the whole aircraft.
The final item is the 4 color profiles in the last pages of the book showing the cover art scheme (already described above)
This is one neat book. Highly recommended.
I want to thank Casemate publishers, who sent me this review sample and Dr. Roger Wallsgrove head-editor of MMP for this book sample.
Casemate is the N.American distributor for MMP books and they sent me this sample.
All MMP titles can be seen on Casemates website at:
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants.
It is an advanced development of the similar looking MiG-15 of the Korean War. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.
MiG-17s first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and later proved to be an effective threat against more modern supersonic fighters of the United States in the Vietnam War.
It was also briefly known as the Type 38 by U.S. Air Force designation prior to the development of NATO codes.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Role: Fighter aircraft
National origin: Soviet Union
Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich
First flight: 14 January 1950
Introduction to service: October 1952
Status: In limited service.
Primary users: Soviet Air Forces (historical), People's Liberation Army Air Force (historical), Polish Air Force (historical), Vietnam People's Air Force (historical)
Number built: 10,649 including Polish, Czech and Chinese variants
Developed from: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Variants: PZL-Mielec Lim-6, Shenyang J-5
Developed into: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
THE BOOK:
Mushroom Model Publications (MMP) is based in the UK. All their books are printed by their associate Stratus in Poland in the English language.
Stratus also does their own line of books in both Polish and English.
This book is soft cover of 24 pages in 8 1/4" x 11 3/4" page format.
The cover is bright yellow with a color top view of a Mig-17F (Polish designation Lim-5).
Upper surfaces and sides are painted light-grey, green and sand. Lower surfaces are light-blue. It has the Polish Air Force red and white checkerboard insignia in the rudder and fuselage sides and a red stenciled serial no. 1023 on the sides of the nose. Black BG2-01920965 is painted on the port under-wing tank.
It was with the 61st Air Combat Training Regiment, Biala Podlaska ca. 1985.
This scheme is seen again in the last pages of the book as a color 4-view. Colors are also shown in patches with FS numbers.
This Mig-17 on the cover art has its left wing bent around the spine of the book and partially on the back cover.
The book starts with 6 1/72nd scale line drawings of the Mig-17F along with illustrations of the bulkheads inside the fuselage.
There is also 4 1/48th scale line drawings, also with the bulkhead illustrations.
There are 10 illustrations for maintenance manuals with names of the parts shown.
There are 7 black and white photos of the whole aircraft shown and 31 black and white walk-around type photos.
There are 5 color photos of the cockpit interior and 3 more color photos of the whole aircraft.
The final item is the 4 color profiles in the last pages of the book showing the cover art scheme (already described above)
This is one neat book. Highly recommended.
I want to thank Casemate publishers, who sent me this review sample and Dr. Roger Wallsgrove head-editor of MMP for this book sample.
Casemate is the N.American distributor for MMP books and they sent me this sample.
All MMP titles can be seen on Casemates website at: