Hi all,
Who knows if the MIG 9 aka I-301 had a side hinging or a backwards sliding canopy?
I bought myself a 35 rouble (1 euro) kit in st pete last week, and want to make a open cockpit to it…
the bandwith taken to get this question answered is probably more than the kit has cost itself 😀
By: Bert van Dalen - 14th February 2006 at 21:33
From the book OKB MiG, page 138/139: Canopy consisted of two-piece transparency in frame and mounted on rails for aft-opening.
To end the discussion, in MiG – Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design, page 87, is a nice picture of a MiG-9 with a sliding canopy.
Since I started the thread.. here’s the photographic evidence coming from
By: Papa Lima - 14th February 2006 at 19:25
Hooray!
By: ruud.deurenberg - 14th February 2006 at 18:58
From the book OKB MiG, page 138/139: Canopy consisted of two-piece transparency in frame and mounted on rails for aft-opening.
To end the discussion, in MiG – Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design, page 87, is a nice picture of a MiG-9 with a sliding canopy.
By: Bert van Dalen - 14th February 2006 at 18:11
Here’s the deal; I’ll make it two piece, backwards sliding..
If it turns out to be sideways hingeing, I could still cut it up into three pieces.
Found another pic like the ealier one, also suggesting sliding..
By: Malcolm McKay - 14th February 2006 at 00:29
Sources I’ve got say sliding.
HTH
By: Bert van Dalen - 14th February 2006 at 00:11
I have a small book on that as well; I’ll have a look on it, and if it does not come up with anything I’ll glady ask for the scans from you mate…
By: Papa Lima - 13th February 2006 at 22:05
If you have a copy of “”MiG Aircraft since 1937” the photo of the first production MiG-9 on page 50 seems to show a canopy on sliding rails. Also the description of the I-300 on page 48 says “The canopy was a single ‘teardrop’, sliding to the rear on tracks.”
That was the direct predecessor of the I-301. You pay your money and take your choice!
By: Bert van Dalen - 13th February 2006 at 21:39
Papa Lima, thx mate.
I got the book as well but did not look that close 😎
Could still be that someone draw the colour profile and started fantasizing the details he could not see on the fuzzy monochrome pics…
So i”ll save the canopy separation till the last. Maybe something comes up that shows a open canopy…
Anyway thx for the trouble!
PS; Now I know the VVS museum is Monino, not Moshino; thats the handbag 😀
By: Papa Lima - 13th February 2006 at 21:17
MiG-9 canopy
Looks more like a side hinge from the few pictures that I have.
Scans from The Complete Book of Fighters” page 390.
By: Bert van Dalen - 13th February 2006 at 20:33
before anyone suggests to Google it; i did, but not much comes up mostly 3 view profiles with closed cnopies and a pic of the prototype preserved at Moschino.
This pic leads me to believe it was a backwards sliding canopy, given the shades you see..
Anyone else got something better?
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February 13, 2006 at 5:09 pm