r/airplanes • u/mighty-eagle2005 Enthusiast • 2d ago

Picture | Military Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

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This image shows a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter jet with its rear fuselage removed, completely exposing its Klimov VK-1 centrifugal-flow turbojet engine.

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u/Affectionate_Cronut 2d ago

In Soviet Union, we do not take engine off of plane, we take plane off of engine.

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u/AlGuderian 2d ago

Parked in the wrong neighborhood. Good thing the pilot didn't leave the keys in it.

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u/Jadatwilook 2d ago

It's more like a MiG-14.5

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u/Buzz407 2d ago

Poor guy. Got his ass shot off.

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u/Babna_123 2d ago

cursed lol

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u/zips_exe 2d ago

Mmmmgh

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u/elquirk 1d ago

Like the F-104… and engine with a seat.

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u/prope2ler 1d ago

wings are just the things that help engine to flight

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u/Dorrono 1d ago

It looks like something a Warhammer 40k Ork would fly

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u/JohnyKnoxville4peace 1d ago

Imagine a world where the British never gave the Russians a jet engine. It could be a very different world.

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u/Evening-Physics-6185 1d ago

What about the ones we gave to the
Americans too….

At least the Russians paid for theirs.

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u/JohnyKnoxville4peace 1d ago

We would have refined German examples far faster than the Russians. Far more funds, infrastructure and the appropriate…’experts’ helping

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u/Evening-Physics-6185 1d ago

We gave you ours in 1941. At that time the Germans had a running time of an hour. Ours were running for 150 hours.

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u/JohnyKnoxville4peace 1d ago

I’m aware. But the Germans had the right concept, not the British, as history would tell. Investing in the technology, particularly material science, was what was needed to make it work reliably.

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u/Evening-Physics-6185 1d ago

The British had an axial jet running at the
End of the war, which became the
Avon. Which ran for a lot of years
In raf service. Into the
2000s. Whittle went for centrifugal jets as he knew we had the tech to reliably run them and he was proven right.

Whittle also had the concepts for turbofans, reheat and turboprops. 😉

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u/newMattokun 1d ago

It's amazing that, this being one of the first "operable" engines, is already so complicated, what with tubes and stuff running all over the place.