[yooling]

That design later became known as the Mig 15.

[SkyPilot]

Yup-er! The Russians captured some of the German engineers that designed the TA 183 too.

There was a great show on the MIG 15 on Modern Marvels (History Channel) a couple of nights ago---did you catch it?

[yarddog]

That does make you think of the MIG-15. The Russians stole the design from the Germans and the Brits gave them the engine.

I saw a program on the History Channel a while back in which they claimed the British gave them the engine based on losing a pool game.

I thought at the time that was probably total nonsense. The British government was full of Commies. I suspect that is how they got it. Anyway they got the best jet engine in the world without doing any development work. We then paid the price in korea.

[struwwelpeter]

I wonder how original the Yak-28's design was. It looks like it has some Sturmvogel genes.