This profile represents the aircraft of captain A.A. Lipilin, 41 IAP,
that shot down a German reconaissance aircraft at an altitude of 8000 m
on July 27, 1941, on the Moscow front.
The photo shows only a small portion of the aircraft; some details
are hypothetical.
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it is an early model MiG-3 (as one can see from the tail wheel doors),
with radio devices and probably without slats;
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there is a white 5 and a small round on the tail; there looks to be a red
11 painted over it; a large 0 is on low position, and the star is unusually
small;
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there was probably a red star painted on the fuselage (as on nearly all
the MiGs) without further numbers (there are already too many ones on the
tail);
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the black camo bands look unusually soft, but the overall scheme looks
similar to one seen on photos of many other MiGs; it could be field painted,
on the all green background typical of early MiGs (this could justify the
unusually small tail star as painted on the field too; the first examples
had no tail stars; the factory camouflaged aircrafts had a far larger star);
hand brush painting is visible on the fuselage side;
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the spinner was probably green, as on most MiG-3s.
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