[alfa6]

Greetings Freeper Canteeners alfa6 checking in for the Saturday Sortie. No problems with bad weather here in Kansas City but the folks down in south central Kansas can use your prayers. Central Kansas is not looking to good at the moment 8:30pm CDT several tornado warnings are up for Great Bend and I think Ellsworth Ks. Hope all they hit are fields or a stray out building.

A quick look at the MiG-17 (NATO name Fresco-A) to continue on our adventure with the Soviet fighters. When it first came out NATO thought that the MiG-17 was a stretched version of the -15. That was not to be the case. The MiG-17 was a new design intended to correct the handling shortcomingsd of it older brother. The fuselage was lenghtened, thw ings had a 45degree sweep and a new angular tail was added. The larger fuselage allowed for improvements in the internal layout and the other changes greatly enhanced the aircrafts stability. The -17 was powered at first by the same Klimov KV-1 jet engine. The next version of the MiG-17 the Fresco-C, had an afterburning version of the KV-1. A fixed scan radar was added to the MiG-17 which was called Fresco-D. The final version of the Fresco had the guns deleted with 4 missles in thier palce making it the first Soviet Interceptor. Max speed of the MiG-17F, Fresco-D, was about 711mph at 10,000ft. The cannons remained pretty much the same as the MiG-15 altjhough some Frescos had an extra 23mm gun in place of the 37mm cannon.

One final note there are about a dozen of the MiG-17s still flying most of them in the United States. Well on with the pics.

First an almost head on pic :-(

Next up another infile shot of the previous aircraft. Check out the wing fences to help with stability and of course that massive marshmellow roaster out the back.

Here's one for BIGLOOK, guns or rockets?

Here is one of the US MiGs in polish markings. Hat tip to Bill Proffit for the next two pics.

Just where you want to be, at the MiGs 6 O'clock.

To close out the Sotire a nice inflight shot of restored MiG-17

Hope everybody has a great week out there.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[AZamericonnie]

Thank you alfa for the sortie on the MiG-17. So glad you are ok!

Prayers for everyone in central Kansas & all effected by these storms.

[luvie]

Thanks for the Saturday Sortie, Alfa! The MiGs are pretty awesome machines, even though they fought against us.

Prayers for the people in Kansas who are having more than their share of bad weather. We are under a tornado watch right now, too....but most of it north of us.

Thanks for entertaining the troops with your expertise!

[StarCMC]

Excellent flyby as always, alfa6! Thank you!!

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Alfa6!

The day fighter sported three canons but could be fitted with AA-1 Alkali missiles. Later versions converted to Fighter/Bomber and could carry unguided SA rockets but never seen one in VN.