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It appears to me Stalin carted off the entire Junkers turboprop design staff as slave laborers. I doubt this was a unique incident.number of employees working in 1947 totaled about 2500, including 662 Germans.
Creation of the TV-2 (NK-12) turboprop engine
It appears to me Stalin carted off the entire Junkers turboprop design staff as slave laborers. I doubt this was a unique incident.
Historians including David Myrha[6] have claimed the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 was at least inspired by the Ta 183, because the Soviets captured plans from the Germans at the end of World War II. The MiG-15 does bear a superficial resemblance in layout, sharing the high tailplane and nose mounted intake, although the aircraft are different in structure, details, and proportions. The MiG-15's design shared features, and some appearance commonalities with the MiG design bureau's own 1945-46 attempt at a Soviet-built version of the Messerschmitt Me 263 rocket fighter, and also common to many contemporary jet fighters — and were derived from aerodynamic and structural considerations (for example, the American Republic F-84F, the Swedish SAAB 29, and the French Dassault Ouragan and Mystère). A detailed design history of the MiG-15 was published by Russian aviation historian Yefim Gordon[7] refuting any connection between the Ta 183 and the MiG-15. According to the designers, the MiG-15 was an indigenous design, their choice of swept wings (as swept-back wings of any sort on a Soviet-designed aircraft were first flown on the MiG-8 Utka canard light aircraft) being due to their desire to move ahead of most Western designs which were not intended for the 960 km/h+ (600 mph+) speed range.
Like the MiG-9 -15, the Saab 29 is subject to claims of having been indirectly influenced by the Ta 183. SAAB engineers received German research studies in swept wings in the immediate post-war period via contacts in Switzerland, and incorporated it into the Tunnan design, which was still limited to paper studies at the time.[8]
By taking a quick squizz on the net I found these, both of which resemble the aircraft you guys mentioned, only made by Lindberg and Aurora:
Old Plastic Model Kits: model airplane kits, Revell, Monogram, Aurora
Old Plastic Model Kits: model airplane kits, Revell, Monogram, Aurora
Here is the Aurora kit built:
Aurora MIG-19 Model Kit by Aurora
Aurora was the worst. I still have nightmares about trying to get that landing gear to work on that F8U!Aurora models of the 50's were not of very good quality or accuracy. I remember a Bf109E model that was molded in dark maroon plastic.
But Aurora, Lindberg, and sometimes Revelle was all you'd see in my area.
When I got to a big city and discovered Airfix and some of the other foreign brands, I thought I had died and went to heaven.