PUBLISHED IN 2009
OUT OF PRINT
The publication has 28 pages; it includes a total of 48 overall and detailed photographs, 12 pages of colour camouflage schemes and their description. Text in English. A comprehensive decal sheet is added for modellers’ convenience. The following aircraft are depicted on each decal sheet: Soviet Air Force (3x), Czechoslovak Air Force (2x), Polish Air Force (1x), East German Air Force (1x), Bulgarian Air Force (1x), Egyptian Air Force (1x), North Vietnamese Air Force (1x), Chinese Air Force (1x) and US Air Force (1x).
Developed from the successful MiG-15 jet, the MiG-17 constituted a marked improvement in transonic handling over the previous model. Both the clear weather interceptors (the MiG-17 and 17F) and the all-weather fighters (the MiG-17PF and 17PFU) were evolved in the USSR, and a number of aircraft were licence-built in Poland (as the Lim-5 and Lim-6s) and in China (as the J-5 and J-5As), with the total number reaching 10,500 examples.
