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Item number 72003

Scale 1:72nd

Analog A-144-1 (MiG21 prototype #1)

History
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 was designed in the Soviet Union as a high speed supersonic fighter in the nineteen fifties. It proved to be a very good design, with over 10,000 built in dozens of versions of the MiG-21 and exported to many Soviet influenced countries during the Cold War all over the World. A special test aircraft was the A-144. It was officially the MiG-21i 21-11 as a lot of parts are common with the conventional MiG-21. Purpose was first to test a tailless aircraft with ailerons and flaps. The next purpose was to familiarize Russian pilots of the forth coming Tupolev TU-144 flight characteristics and the A-144 had a similar curved wing leading edge and no tail. So test pilots called it the "analog". 
  
The A-144 first flew in March 1968 with 2 flying test aircraft completing over 140 test flights. The TU-144 flew end 1968 and pilots had so a bit of feeling for flying such a configuration. One A-144 aircraft crashed during a demonstration excercise flight. One Analog is still at Monino museum near Moskou.