Ye-2A Faceplate (Plastic model) - HobbySearch Military Model Store

This item is limited to 3 per household.

- Another brand of Models Bit, A & A Model is a guide of 1/72 scale aircraft injection plastic kit of the complete new money type.

- Ye-2A prototype fighter was a retractable wing fighter developed by Mikoyan Design Bureau as the next Mach 2nd class fighter aircraft in the 1950s, first flight in 1955.
- At that time Mikoyan Design Bureau could not conclude which of retreat wing and delta wing would be promising as the next Mach 2nd class fighter, actually to compare the backward wing aircraft and the delta wing machine and compare it to Ye-2A The installed engine was equipped with AM-11 (Tsumansusuki R-11 turbojet of the same engine as later MiG-21) same as Ye-5 delta wing machine with horizontal tail wagon developed at the same time.
- NATO gave Ye-2A a code name with [Faceplate (faceplate)] and it was a degree of completion that Ye-2A misunderstood that production was started as MiG-21, but compared with Ye-5 As a result of examination, although the performance was nearly equal, Ye - 5 which was simple in structure and lighter than 200 kg was adopted, and Ye - 2 A was rejected.
- After that the Ye - 5 of the delta wing aircraft became MiG - 21 via Ye - 6.
- This kit comes with paint mask seals, etched parts and two kinds of decals.
- When completed, the total length is about 184 mm, the total width is about 113 mm.

Item Size/Weight : 23.6 x 16 x 4.5 cm / 194g