That distinct sound brings back many memories. I grew up in Albania just a few miles from a Mig 15 airbase seeing them flying and hearing the sound of the cannons during military exercises. As kids we would sit on top of the bunkers and watch them take off.

Chuck Yeager flew a Mig 15 after it debuted, he talks about it in his autobiography. He flew it out at sea, secretly, on a carrier to evaluate it after it was captured, or maybe the guy defected. He recalled it being a crude but effective platform, and he told a story of the white line you talked about. When briefed by the Russian defector, the pilot told him "any trouble, or a spin, you shove stick at white line." The Russians did not have a movable tail on the Mig 15 unlike the F86 Sabre, (F86E) which did. That was a great tactical and operational design advantage we held for a while. The Russians tried to get him drunk once so he would spill the beans about that tail, but that's a different story. Thanks for keeping this true piece of history alive, the F86 and Mig 15 are both beautiful and historical.

I can remember in November of 1992 - a guy was selling MIG-15’s and MIG-17’s at the Scottsdale Airpark for $25,000 (Twenty-Five- THOUSAND) dollars USD each. They were all parked in a row at the far north end of the runway off off FLW Blvd, and you could see them all plainly from the road. Lots of people drove by to admire them. Didn’t have the $25K at the time, or the extra money for non-existent spare parts, but it doesn’t cost anything to “dream”… Good times… good times !!!

Well done mate doing what you love is one of life's greatest pleasures, But $3000 a hour, its ot for everyone still enjoy it all you can

The Meg is absolutely gorgeous always Swift wings have been my favorite plains I can’t believe you made this whole video it didn’t show it in-flight more I love to hear about it love to worry about it but I wanted to see it maneuver Maybe next time thanks

I remember seeing one of these parked at Kirkland AFB in 1990 when I was stationed there, 1550 CCTW FMS.

Today, Russian and American historians such as Cookie Sewall and Diego Zampinni admit that on 10/01/1955, not 10/08, there was the first kill of a jet by another jet. An F-80 Shooting Star patrol engaged three MiG-15s and veteran First Lieutenant Semyon Fyodorovich Khominich spotted 10 F-80F aircraft. Khomonich turned left, leaving the sun behind in combat formation. As a result of their attack, an F-80 was shot down. He opened fire at 800 meters, and stopped firing at less than 200 meters. Coming out of his attack, the lieutenant struggled to gain altitude. Major Bordun with the rest of the team attacked four F-80s that were trying to attack Khominich. The Americans went to the others without success, and finally abandoned the fight..." "...The Russian-built fighter was flown by five Air Force pilots. The F-86A-5 Saber underperformed when compared to the MIG-15. However, the superior training and tactics of the US pilots established a "kill ratio" better than 8:1 over MIG. MiG-15 swept all straight-wing jets out of the skies over Korea, including all day flight B-29s and put all B-29 to work only at nights !! [ kill-ratio also fixed: 1.3 to 1. Reasons: chinese and vietnamese pilots had no trainings like russians 'Honchos'... ] (Photo: National Archives and Records Administration) www.aviation-history.com/mikoyan/mig15.html

Thank you for video! Very interesting to seen MIG-15 still in operate.

Got to see a Cuban Mig 15 when I was stationed at Homestead AFB in late 69, our shop got to do a close up walk around for about a half hour. Worked in the F 4E engine shop

I grew up around L-29 as a kid we had one in the middle school loved it

An iconic aircraft nice

Ричард, ты великолепен !

Jimmys World just bought one lol

Very awesome man! and respecting the history and age of it.

It looks like he takes much better care of that plane than the original owners. Its all polished up, nice.

I was hoping he would talk about the dreaded ejection seat and what modifications, if any, were done to make it safe now.

Richard, great record for the history books.

Albania has a few of Migs in storage in their bases. Not sure if they are selling them now but they were a few years back. Mig15/17/19s.

Can you tell me why the port wing inboard strake has a scallop in it? I work at an air museum in Australia and we have a Polish MiG 15 on display. People who know aircraft and notice this, ask me why only that strake has the scallop. In all my research, I have never found a reason as to why. Appreciate your video and hope you can supply an answer to my query. Cheers from Australia.

Half of the entire plane is tail , very unique look . . Like a Corsair and P-38 from WW2

This makes me feel better about my 182's 13.5 gallon per hour fuel flow.

Another video on YT pilots talking about the F-86 he said the same thing had to always trim down depending on the speed always playing with the vertical trim.

Uniqueness

Good job feller

I understand what you mean its a fun plane.

I love how small it is….

I felt like this plane should be just commercialised for those who like to have fun.

I just love how the MIG-15 is using a Russian copy of the Whittle designed Nene engine - which the UK government sold to the Soviet Union as a gesture of goodwill - with reservation to not use for military purposes - I bet the buyers had their fingers crossed when they promised ;)

not true, the sweep wing started in 1942, and the mig 15 is a cheep copy of the Me262, and the uS knew about the sweep wing but did not rush into production untill 1952

The T-33 Does not have a “hydraulic canopy” it is electric. The T-28 has a hydraulic canopy.

I'm looking for a jet that's more terrifying. The Starfighter appeals to me, but they're so damn expensive. I need something cheap. Cheap and scary. Decisions, decisions.

L29 was made with russian motor that are well known to make trouble . Viper motor is mount on Iar 93-98 hawk starting with 1960 license of producing viper motors . L29 and Iar 93-99 have a similar story -two small east european states trying to build a fighter jet and not to be dependent of migs external sources . But no one will to provide super sonic motor jets so chechs import subsonic rusian motors and Romania buy license of viper .

Thats like the plane jimmy is buying he has a you tube channel i wonder how fast they were as modern jets seem to be slower jimmy has an option of a spare crate engine too

A wise purchase,simple, Reliable and rugged. The russians have a saying that perfection is the enemy of it will do the job.

Wish we could have seen it do a flyover.

Ryan Air???

he wanted a fast plane , he should have gotten a f100 or f104 those pop up for civilian purchase and are supersonic maybe even a mig 21

All the time watching the video and the damn thing won't get off the ground.

Yikes, $3000 an hour? Yea I bet that would be a limiting factor in flying.

Is this the mig that tore some runway up in Ely, NV?

Claims he flew an F-15, no you didn't you rode in the back seat.

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Check out Jimmy’s world

the main questions is... is it reliable ? :D

The reason it's so expensive to fly is only rich people can afford to fly or own a aircraft so all services suppliers know they have the ability to hike prices up

What means MIG.?

3000$ hr....Damn

You must have a very understanding wife. lol

why cant you land a mig 21 in Canada?

Flying ark!

Never got to see it fly...WTF

"Built like a tank" Ukranian John Deere enters the chat:

He's not the veteran vintage pilot who was killed, I hope?

2 seater Mig-15 looks stupid.

The Mig 15 does win one category. The ugliest plane ever built.

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All talk, no fly.😠

opps sorry I said it was a copy of the 262 not it is a copy of the FW ta-183