Product descriptionIn the book "Silver Jet MiG-15" by Libor Reznak readers become acquainted with the onset of jet flies in Czechoslovakia. Describing the period 1950 - 1957 is the first phase of this revolutionary development. Humble beginnings with captured Me-262 alternative description of the massive expansion of aviation training young pilots, filling the void in the Czechoslovak Air Force after the forced departure of experienced military pilots in the years 1948/50. Flight training was conducted in a tense international political situation, when a new war was expected by the public with almost complete certainty.
Five regiments schools trained hundreds of new pilots. Disasters and emergencies in large numbers with C-3, C-104, C-5 and S-199, in particular, were part of the normal air of life. Description of each event is complete archive photos. The vast majority of the more than six hundred photographs in this book published for the first time and makes it notwitstanding the Czech languiage most interesting! .
Flight training if each year of the period 1950 - 1957 is set out in the smallest details. There are also charts changes in the structure of the Air Force, tables of numbers of pilots and aviation technology, or a total overview of all major air pollution events. The book explains the beginning of a gradual increase in flying training on current technology. The first steps with the Yak 23, MiG-15, MiG-17 and IL-28 in the air beyond simple Czechoslovakia.
Lots of interesting pictures, many including crashed or otherwise broken planes