Letov S-103
See the Cold War opposition Letov S-103 fighter on
display at National Museum of Flight, East Fortune.
Cold War fighter aircraft
The USSR's first operational sweptwing fighter, the MiG-15, was
built in vast numbers and became the Warsaw Pact's standard
fighter. Designed around British jet engines, the MiG-15 first flew
in 1947 powered by a Rolls Royce Nene engine. In spite of the
superiority in performance over its Western counterparts, the MiG
suffered more combat losses, mainly due to the indequate training
of its pilots.
MiG at the Museum
The Letov S-103 at the National Museum of Flight is
an example of one of over 3,000 MiG-15s built under
licence in Czechoslovakia and Poland. It served with the Ostravan
Air Regiment, named after the town of Ostrava. It arrived by
road to the National Museum of Flight from the Czech republic
in 1993.