How to restore the aircraft since the Second World War

In June, a wonderful event happened. Another plane made its first flight! New MiG-3 in the collection! Aircraft from the search to the restoration and flight test was a hard way of a few years ...



At first this exploration and collection of information about the object. Then the preparation for departure and departure on the proposed location of equipment. Some of the exhibits are well preserved in bogs or in or ponds.
This car was found in a lake in the Murmansk region. Rather machine goes to the bottom, and it hides the sludge blanket. Pull ropes does not make sense, since upset the delicate structure of the skeleton. In order to pull it out, you need to pump air under it, the process to be the most natural.
Airplane air cylinders



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Further, the plane must be cleaned of dirt and silt



Already a clean body



Everything starts to rust in the air instantly



After starting the loading



Items are packed and loaded onto trucks



Further details are loaded onto trains and sent to Novosibirsk, to the factory, where in the next few years samotel will be restored to flying condition!
Begin with a skeleton



Then everything is cluttered with "muscles»



And because of the piles of scrap car gets familiar features



During this work the months and years to come! Individual work - the engine and flight units. Recovering from scratch. Engine soaked in kerosene to separate the dirt. All items are changing and going.



Remember looked like the cabin after climbing?



The aircraft collected



And begin to roll out into the street to begin testing the engine and components





Once everything is checked. The plane finally collected, painted and ready for the first flight



And now, after years, the aircraft made a flight!
Acceleration aerodrome



He takes to the air





MiG stood on the wing!



This huge work of a few years. Amazing, painstaking and noble.

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