E-flite UMX MiG-15 Ultra Micro EDF RC Jet Fighter With AS3X Technology Fun

This video was taken with my Sony HDR-CX290 Handycam on the same day as I recorded my very successful E-flite UMX B-17 flights the other day. This footage consisted of me flying the E-Flite UMX MiG-15 DF Ultra Micro EDF RC Jet Fighter Warbird with AS3X Technology around on a beautiful day!

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It is an amazing little RC Plane! It is extremely scale in spite of its very small stature and flies really well as you can see the video. This is the MiG Jet that helped coin the term MiG Alley during the Korean War.

Part of me wants the Great Planes F-86 Sabre to go on deep discount, so I can pick that one up too and play war games with my flying buddies with JETS! The question is who would be the crazy man from Russia (USSR) and who would be the good guy?

Here is what Horizon Hobby has to say about this plane:

"The E-flite® UMX™ MiG 15 DF EDF Jet aircraft is a 4-channel breakthrough in ultra micro electric ducted fan technology. Based on the swept-wing jet fighter that launched aerospace into a new performance realm, E-flite expertise brings an RC ducted fan with true jet performance you can fly almost anywhere. To make every flight rock solid, the onboard AS3X® System will have you believing that you're at the controls of a Giant-Scale model, even in moderate winds."

Plane history:

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-15) was a jet fighter developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful swept-wing jet fighters, and it achieved fame in the skies over Korea, where early in the war, it outclassed all straight-winged enemy fighters in most applications. The MiG-15 also served as the starting point for development of the more advancedMiG-17. The MiG-15 is believed to have been the most widely produced jet aircraft ever made, with over 12,000 built. Licensed foreign production perhaps raised the total to over 18,000.[1] The MiG-15 is often mentioned along with the North American F-86 Sabre as among the best fighter aircraft of the Korean War and in comparisons with fighters of other eras.[2]

The first turbojet fighter developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich was the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 NATO reporting name: Fargo which appeared in the years immediately after World War II. It used a pair of reverse-engineered German BMW 003 engines, which had been used on the Messerschmitt Me 262A-1b test aircraft, only a few of which were ever built. The MiG-9 was a MiG jet with a troublesome design which suffered from weak, unreliable engines and control problems. Categorized as a first generation jet fighter, it was designed with the straight-style wings common to piston-engined fighters.

The Germans failed to develop reliable turbojets with thrust over 2,500 lb which limited the performance of Soviet jet designs. By 1946, Soviet designers were impressed by the Rolls-Royce Nene engine. Soviet aviation minister Mikhail Khrunichev and aircraft designer A. S. Yakovlev suggested to Premier Joseph Stalin the USSR buy advanced jet engines from the British. Stalin is said to have replied, "What fool will sell us his secrets?"[6]

The MiG-15 was widely exported, with the People's Republic of China receiving MiG-15bis models in 1950. Chinese MiG-15s took part in the first jet-versus-jet dogfights during the Korean War. The swept-wing MiG-15 quickly proved superior to the first-generation, straight-wing jets of western air forces such as the F-80 and British Gloster Meteor, as well as piston-engined P-51 Mustangs and Vought F4U Corsairswith the MiG-15 of First Lieutenant Semyon Fyodorovich Khominich scoring the first jet-vs-jet victory in history when he bagged the F-80C of Frank Van Sickle, who died in the encounter (the USAF credits the loss to the action of the North Korean flak).[10][unreliable source?] Only the F-86 Sabre, with its highly trained pilots, was a match for the MiG.

I personally also like my E-flite UMX Habu quite a bit, which is not to be confused with the new UMX Habu S. Some people also refer to is as the Micro Habu, UMX Habu 180 DF, or the Habu UMX. However, I like that plane a little bit less than I like my UMX MiG-15. I am also pretty sure that I would like the Habu 2 or even the Habu 32 better, however.

The MiG-15 War Thunder seems to have the most personality in the air and looks the coolest in the sky to me.

Since I made this video I have been flying a lot of very cool EDF Jets, including the E-flite Viper & Freewing BAe Hawk.