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Info Eduard - December 2011
EDITORIAL
Our Miguary activities are culminating with
the upcoming end of the Miguary year, with the
MiG-21BIS. There were some ames around
this one on some of the internet forums, even
before the kit was released, which is quite
unique. Besides the correct type designation,
the nose dimensions were also criticized.
As to the correct type designation, I´m not sure
which one is actually correct. This project was
originally planned as the MiG-21bis, which is the
commonly used type name, but latter we found
that the type, or version, designation used in the
export manuals was “BIS”. This was the reason
why we decided to change the type name to
BIS. I absolutely understand that “bis” is a very
common designation, and I also understand the
origin of the word “bis”. Unfortunately, it doesn´t
mean the author of the manuals understood this
as well. It seems there were more variants of this
type name, not only “bis” or “BIS”, but also “Bis”.
Therefore we decided to use “BIS”. If you think
this is incorrect, use “bis”. If the designation “BIS”
written on the Eduard boxes disturbs you, simply
take your pen and mark it “ bis”. Just don´t ask
me to pay you your marker then!
Concerning the noses of the “BIS” and “MF”,
it is simple; they were different. And, thanks to
the stainless steel intake ring, which is shorter
and wider, that difference is clearly seen. We
created the new intake ring for the “BIS” version,
but didn´t change the front nose section next to
intake ring, in front of the base for the pitot tube.
The reason in doing so is that the difference of
the truly accurate scaled nose and our kit nose is
very marginal. When measured, the difference
is only 0.38mm of the entire diameter at the
top point of the curve, when the difference
is split between both halves of the fuselage.
I will explain how we made this decision more
in depth, in a separate article. I feel certain
that even with this small 0.38mm difference, we
captured the nose very well. You can be sure that
we will not do a Brassin correction nose for BIS,
and if anyone here at Eduard comes up with such
an idea, he will be told to nd another job!
While our new website is very busy, the page
is still not absolutely perfect. We will continue
to ne tune it as well as work hard on new
promotions, such as the MiG-21BIS Overtrees
now in December.
December Info comes in a slightly modied
structure form with a shorter foreword. Some
information, formerly included in the foreword,
has been moved to the product group’s
introduction pages. The product pages now
include the related products links. We hope these
changes will help you to better locate our new
releases and better navigate our famous web
magazine. After all, it is a magazine, of course!
Questions could have interesting answers after
New Year, because the future will surely be
turbulent. Which, I guess, is not so wrong.
Keep modeling!
Vladimir Sulc