AVIATION HISTORY
24 April 1946 – first flight of Yak-15 and MiG-9, the two early Soviet jet fighters
On 24 April 1946, Yakovlev Yak-15 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the two first-generation Soviet jet fighters, made their first flights. In the late 1930s, the development of operational jet engines entered a breakthrough phase. In Germany, […]