Yes, it will publish in English.

180 pages, big-format “picture-book”, 80% in colour, on glossy-paper in HQ.
100% never before published photos, straight from pilots, mechanics…

I am not the author.
I am not the publisher.
I have the permission from the author, to “talk” about it.
I am one of the people, who made the photos in the 60s, 70s….

I am talking about photos, like these:

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f467290

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f467287

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f467283

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f467288

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f469916

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f489283

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f486538

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f527038

http://ggenn.moifoto.ru/21181/f529659

But same shots are at a few people only….at pilots, maintenance men…

In the official archives, at magazines, at “official” photographers are boring material only, propagandistic photos…walking pilots, standing pilots….well prepared views of people with aircrafts in the background…
And most of those were published many times.
And those are very expensive photos too.

Having pictures that have not been published before is important but the text (including the pictures caption) also is important (at least for me). For instance, Y. Arsenyev and D. Baranov’s article about the 2nd generation MiG-21 states the serial numbers from which various improvements have been introduced (introduction of the KM-1 seat and the two-piece canopy with airframe 941221, etc). To me, such informations should appear in a serious monography.

PUBLICATION:
It means (for me) to show the things to other people, not just tell(write).
They were not on those places, in those times.
They can NOT imagine exactly the things by my words, or they will imagine it on thousands of different ways….

And the photo is the absolute evidence:

If I tell you, Syria operated MiG-21SMT – it is an urban legend only.
If I publish 4 Syrian MiG-21SMT photos – this is more than fact.

If I write – MiG-23M is Nuke capable – it is interesting, there are a lot of talking about this.
If I publish a photo – 16thVA MiG-23M with live-Nuke in QRA – it is the PUBLICATION…….for me.

The most important NEED in publications about Russian military aviation:
To publish really good photos from 1945-1990 period.
This is the “big-hole”…..that YG books are not stuffed.

MiG-23MLD !

I respect your buying rules….:)

” By the way in these days you can see really good pictures in the internet is not as difficult as it seems “

Except pre-1990 SovietAF.

Where can I find on the Net colour photos(high-res, good-qulity like in a well printed expensive book) MiG-15 -17 -21F-13 -21SMT -23MS, Su-7 -17M -17M2 ….?

I know every corner on the Russian Net, only have a few from “asat” and Gennadiy.

MiG-23MLD !

I am talking about photos, that you can not find on the internet.
And can not find anywhere else.

MiG-21SMT is a good sample:
If you will meet in your favorite bookshop before Christmas with a 250 pages book, with more than 20 nice colour photos of 21SMT with various weapons, Nuke…etc + 300 same photos of other SovietAF planes before 1990….I think, you will buy it on any high-price.

In YG books are a lot of photos from the internet, and many photos that were published previously in other publications.

I always want to buy something “New”.

Photos of protos:

http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=15017385oc5.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nnyo0.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2005102328614628614em2.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2005102328618628618ej1.jpg

O.k. … but then we all should accept that the authors are seldom able to pay such prises for their publications esp. if they only get a fixed price !

Therefore no-one should complain about pictures which are missing, old or not the wished ones !

…..and your publication will a dry text without the most appropriate photos…

So, on this way, what will you give for the readers ?
Your collection of AVAILABLE infos on the topic + your conclusions.
Maybe it will interesting, but it will not unic…
(Sorry, I do not want to downgrade your writer-capabilities, but I think, your choices to write something really unic…..)
But,
If you have contact with the Chinese test-pilot, development engineers, and you can publish their personal photos, scanned negatives or slides in HQ…so, it can be something completely different, your publisher will re-thinking the compensation, and the magazine will “sold-out” on the next day after publishing date…
I have two legs on the earth, I know this is mission-impossible in China….:))….(or not?)

With SovietAF:
We have a lot of books, publications, detailed answers for most of the questions…..but without unic illustrations.
You can not see how it was, you can imagine only…

If a publisher will invest more in well illustrated books about SovietAF types, in HQ, you will buy those without thinking on 3 times higher price…

(I hope my English is good enough to understand what I want to say.)