48-812: (Redirected from MIG ) Mig , MiG , or MIG may refer to: Business [ edit ] MiG , a Russian aircraft corporation Any of the MiG aircraft Marfin Investment Group , Greek private equity company Atlas Arteria , formerly Macquarie Infrastructure Group, toll roads company Mortgage indemnity guarantee Other uses [ edit ] Mig33 mobile social networking , Australian digital media company Luton Town MIGs , English football hooligans Monokine Induced by Gamma interferon, or CXCL9 IATA code for Mianyang Nanjiao Airport , China Mig Ayesa , an Australian singer-songwriter MiG (album) ,
96-625: A friendly fire incident. Most incarnations of the Autobot Powerglide, who first appeared in Hasbro's Transformers toy line in 1985, transform into an A-10. The A-10 is featured in the 2007 Michael Bay movie Transformers , in a battle in Qatar between U.S. SOCCENT soldiers and the Decepticon Scorponok. In the 2009 film Terminator Salvation , several A-10s are sent to support
144-499: A 2007 album by Mig Ayesa Metal inert gas welding or MIG welding Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mig . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mig&oldid=1249683460 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
192-585: A Dam Busters parody sequence where a German soldier on top of a dam catches the Lancaster's bombs like a football goalkeeper . The pilot of the attacking Lancaster then delivers the brand slogan: "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label!" The commercial ran for many years, frequently appearing in commercial breaks during broadcasts of both The Dam Busters and documentaries about Operation Chastise . Len Deighton 's 1970 novel Bomber describes an attack by Royal Air Force Lancasters on Krefeld , Germany, during which
240-530: A major role in the 1990 action- thriller film directed by David Green , Fire Birds (or Wings of the Apache ). The 1992 shooter game Desert Strike has the main character flying the AH-64 to complete various missions. Gunship is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation that was released by Microprose in 1986. The sequel Gunship 2000 was released in 1991. Since then, the helicopter has also made an appearance in
288-458: A new company named United Aircraft Corporation . Specifically, Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit. MiG failed to win any major aircraft tenders in the post-Soviet era, falling behind its Russian rival Sukhoi . According to press reports, the company was shedding hundreds of employees in late 2017 due to a shortage of orders. As of 2015 the company's business offering consists mostly of modernized MiG-29 aircraft. MiG
336-422: A new technology, in film, a new medium. In the early 1920s, Hollywood studios made dozens of now-obscure "aerial Westerns" with leads such as Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson , where the role of the horse was taken by aircraft, or used aircraft as nothing more than vehicles for stunts to excite audiences. In 1926, the first "proper" aviation film was made; Wings is a story of two pilots who sign up to fly and fight in
384-568: A series of unplanned incidents leads to the carpet bombing of a small town nearby. The Avro Lancaster was also featured in the UK television series Pathfinders , aired in 1972, concentrating on the lives of the aircrew of a fictional Pathfinder squadron during the Second World War. Lancasters appear in the 2011 novel Dambuster by Robert Radcliffe. The 2019 budget independent film Lancaster Skies (also titled Our Shining Sword ) centres on
432-417: A technical consultant and Vandenberg as one of the pilots. Wings was a box-office hit when it achieved general release in 1929 and went on to win the award for Best Production at the first Academy Awards . In Fascist Italy in the 1930s, aviation-themed films were used as propaganda tools to complement the massed flights led by Italo Balbo in promoting the regime domestically and abroad. One such film
480-556: Is about 47 thousand copies, and taking into account licensed production — about 62 thousand copies. The volume of production of cruise missiles developed at the Design Bureau and its branch at plant No. 256 (now JSC GosMKB Raduga named after A. Ya. Bereznyak) amounted to more than 12 thousand copies. The company's revenue in 2009 amounted to 24.4 billion rubles. The company's order book reached $ 6.8 billion in April 2010. In 2014, JSC RSC MiG
528-532: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG Russian Aircraft Corporation " MiG " ( Russian : Российская самолётостроительная корпорация „МиГ“ , romanized : Rossiyskaya samolyotostroitel'naya korporatsiya "MiG" ), commonly known as Mikoyan and MiG , is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Begovoy District , Moscow . Mikoyan
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#1732851936915576-520: Is set in 1916 during the First World War and features a German ace pilot Lt Sebastian Kupper of Jasta 76 who, flying an Albatros scout, pursues a burning French aircraft and, in what was intended as an act of mercy, kills the pilot so as to spare him from slowly burning to death. The gesture is misinterpreted as an act of murder by one of the French pilot's comrades, Sgt. Paul Chamay who vows to seek and kill
624-482: Is shown in abstract in accordance with the aims of Aeropittura – namely to show the dynamism and excitement of flight – the Ansaldo SVA aircraft are carefully and accurately rendered. The U.S. military controls whether its aircraft may be used for movie or video production. Requests for such use must be accompanied by the proposed production's script, allowing military officials to withhold aircraft when they believe
672-415: Is the meaning of pluralism. The Pentagon fears that some of the movies may hurt the military's reputation and recruiting efforts. These concerns are legitimate, but it's more important that we allow John Stuart Mill 's 'market place of ideas' to be a place for free trade, rather than favoring some over others. Aircraft have also appeared in television miniseries and series around the world. These include
720-557: The Aviation Plant #1 and headed by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich . It was later renamed "Experimental Design Bureau named after A.I. Mikoyan" otherwise known as the Mikoyan Design Bureau or Mikoyan OKB. In 1964 Gurevich retired, and Mikoyan died in 1970. He was succeeded by Rostislav A. Belyakov , and in 1978 the enterprise was named after Mikoyan. In 1995, Mikoyan OKB was merged with two production facilities to form
768-685: The Cold War , and have become commonly featured aircraft in popular culture . Mikoyan aircraft were the most produced jet fighter family . In 2006, Mikoyan became a division of the United Aircraft Corporation in a merger with Ilyushin , Irkut , Sukhoi , Tupolev , and Yakovlev by decree of the Russian President Vladimir Putin . Mikoyan was established on 8 December 1939 as the Pilot Design Department of
816-625: The Futurist Art movement devoted to aviation, known as Aeropittura ("Aeropainting"). While many of the Aeropittura works were devoted to flight rather than aircraft per se , some did celebrate Italian aviation exploits, such as Alfredo Ambrosi's Il volo su Vienna ( The Flight over Vienna ) which depicted in Futurist style the World War I exploit of Gabriele d'Annunzio ; although the city of Vienna
864-494: The Moscow Aviation Production Association "MiG" (MAPO-MiG). In the 1990s MiG began developing Mikoyan Project 1.44 , a fifth-generation jet fighter , but the project was hampered by a lack of funding and was eventually canceled. In December 1999, Nikolai Nikitin was appointed the corporation's General Director and General Designer. Nikitin focused most of the company's resources on the development of
912-697: The Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal in France by British commandos landing in Airspeed Horsa gliders was depicted in the 1962 war epic The Longest Day . Only one Horsa replica was actually constructed. Ten non-flyable Airspeed Horsa mockups were fabricated for the filming of the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far . An Albatros fighter appears in the 1966 novel In the Company of Eagles by Ernest K Gann . The novel
960-808: The Tu-334 passenger aircraft at the expense of military programs. This prompted the resignation in December 1999 of many of its leading military aircraft designers, including the chief designers and their deputies for the MiG-29 and MiG-31 programs. Nikitin was replaced by Valery Toryanin in November 2003, who was in turn replaced by Alexey Fedorov in September 2004. In 2006, the Russian government merged 100% of Mikoyan shares with Ilyushin , Irkut , Sukhoi , Tupolev , and Yakovlev as
1008-548: The de Havilland Comet . The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow makes a prominent appearance in Daniel Wyatt's 1990 novel, The Last Flight of the Arrow . In the novel, the real-life destruction of the fighter is a cover for a secret U.S.-Canadian continental air-defense initiative that fields a fleet of Arrows. A Polish-Canadian Royal Canadian Air Force pilot flies one Arrow on a high-speed reconnaissance flight over Russia to find proof that
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#17328519369151056-603: The 1989 Steven Spielberg film Always . Attempts to use radio-controlled models for special effects shots were abandoned as unworkable; instead, models were "flown" from wire rigs. The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was featured in the films The Final Countdown , Pearl Harbor , and Tora! Tora! Tora! . The Zero was also depicted in the 1976 film Midway ; however real Zeros were not used. Modified T-6 Texans were used in Tora! Tora! Tora! , Midway , and The Final Countdown to depict A6M2 Type 21 Zero fighters, and some footage from
1104-630: The 1991 film Flight of the Intruder . The Skyraider was among the many aircraft shown providing close air support during the First Battle of the Ia Drang Valley Campaign in Mel Gibson 's 2002 film We Were Soldiers , based on the non-fiction book We Were Soldiers Once... And Young by retired Lieutenant General Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway . The Skyraider appeared in
1152-449: The 2006 Werner Herzog film Rescue Dawn , which was based on the true story of German-American Naval aviator Dieter Dengler . After his Skyraider was shot down in 1966 over Laos , Dengler endured months of captivity and torture before he escaped and was rescued. The 1986 Stephen Coonts novel Flight of the Intruder is about two naval aviators who take their Grumman A-6 Intruder on an unauthorized bombing raid on Hanoi during
1200-597: The American productions Twelve O'Clock High , Airwolf , Baa Baa Black Sheep , Sky King and Wings ; the Australian series Big Sky , Chopper Squad and The Flying Doctors , and the miniseries The Lancaster Miller Affair ; British shows such as Airline , Piece of Cake and Squadron , the Canadian series Arctic Air ; JETS – Leben am Limit and Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt from Germany; and
1248-622: The Canadian–British–German co-production Ritter's Cove . In the 1953 James A. Michener novel The Bridges at Toko-ri , Douglas AD-1 Skyraiders fly RESCAP missions over a downed McDonnell F2H Banshee and Sikorsky HO3S-1 during the Korean War . In the 1954 film of the same name , the Banshee was replaced by a Grumman F9F Panther . Two privately owned Skyraiders depicted U.S. Air Force "Sandy" search-and-rescue escort aircraft in
1296-521: The First World War. Made with the cooperation of the United States ' then- Department of War (a relationship that continues to this day), it used front-line military aircraft of the day such as the Thomas-Morse MB-3 and Boeing PW-9 , flown by military pilots. Future U.S. Air Force generals Hap Arnold and Hoyt Vandenberg were among the military officers involved with the production: Arnold as
1344-550: The German pilot. At least two American Eagle A-1s were employed in the production of the 1930 film Young Eagles which was directed by William A. Wellman and starred Buddy Rogers and Jean Arthur . The film portrayed American pilots serving in France during the Great War. Although the A-1 was a post-WW1 trainer, the filmmakers considered it suitable to portray wartime aircraft. One Eagle
1392-688: The Soviet Union is planning an airstrike on North America. The Avro Lancaster was the best-known Royal Air Force heavy bomber of World War II. As such it has appeared in many works of fiction related to Bomber Command and its night raids over Germany and occupied Europe. Lancasters appeared in the 1952 British war film Appointment in London (released in the US as Raiders in the Sky ) directed by Philip Leacock and starring Dirk Bogarde . Three Lancasters were used in
1440-556: The TV mini-series Amerika . Modified Aérospatiale SA 330 Pumas were used to depict Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships in the films Red Dawn (1984), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), and Rambo III (1988). At the climax of the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall , an armed AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin transport helicopter is used in the main villain Silva's assault on Bond and M at Bond's childhood home. The Boeing AH-64 Apache had
1488-553: The Vietnam War. It was made into a 1991 film of the same name . The A-10 Thunderbolt II is among the player-flyable aircraft in the 1989 video game U.N. Squadron . The aircraft is also featured in the 1989 video game A-10 Tank Killer . It has since appeared in the Ace Combat series and is a study-level aircraft in the combat flight simulator DCS World . In the 2005 film Jarhead , A-10s attack U.S. Marine forces in
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1536-696: The bombing of the Möhne , Eder and Sorpe Dams in Germany to interrupt water and hydro-electric power supplies to German munitions factories. The film is based on the books The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson. A number of B VII Lancasters in storage were modified to the original configuration of the B III (Special) for use on screen. The Lancaster also appeared in The Guns of Navarone (1961). A 1989 British commercial for Carling Black Label lager reused Avro Lancaster footage in
1584-553: The early months of the Second World War. Flying patrols over the English Channel, he attacks and sinks what he believes to be a German U-boat but he is accused of mistakenly sinking a British submarine. An Avro Anson was used as a "stand-in" to represent the Boeing 247 Race 57 flown in the 1934 England-to-Australia MacRobertson Air Race by Roscoe Turner , in the 1991 Australian television miniseries The Great Air Race . Turner
1632-551: The former was reused in the latter. Three Type 52 Zeros were used in Pearl Harbor . Two restored aircraft operated by Flight Magic, and one in the Planes of Fame Air Museum collection were barged to Hawaii where "all three aircraft were extensively flown with few problems until NX6528L suffered a gear-up landing. Fortunately, this was near the end of filming. NX6528L was shipped to Pete Regina Aviation at Van Nuys, California where it
1680-423: The ground troops led by John Connor in the opening sequence of the film. Later, two Resistance A-10s are shot down when trying to intercept the machine transport in which Marcus Wright and Kyle Reese were captive. In the 2013 film Man of Steel , three A-10s are sent to Smallville to kill Superman and General Zod and his henchmen, who destroy two of the jets. Two A-26 firebombers were featured in
1728-503: The hardcore study-level sim DCS: World , being praised for its accurate depiction of the systems and procedures. In the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk , an AH-64 was used in an attempt to kill the Hulk with the unusual configuration of twin, pylon-mounted miniguns . In the 2009 film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra , Apaches provide air cover for a convoy carrying nanotechnology -based weapons. The assault on what would later be known as
1776-481: The production—NX673, NX679, and NX782, the same three that were used in the filming of The Dam Busters three years later. The Lancaster was central to the second half of the 1955 British film The Dam Busters . This is a dramatisation of the real-life Operation Chastise , which included the forming of No. 617 Squadron RAF commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson , who was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), and
1824-515: The purported power of the Regia Aeronautica and Italian aviation in general in the 1930s. However, by the time that Luciano Serra pilota was shown at the 1938 Venice Film Festival , the link between aviation and Fascism had already been firmly established in the minds of the Italian people through widespread depictions of aircraft in a variety of media. For example, there was an entire branch of
1872-485: The work will not portray the U.S. military in a sufficiently positive light. Because alternatives to using real military aircraft can be expensive, films that do not get U.S. military approval often do not get financed or made. Sean McElwee, writing for Salon.com , concluded of this problem, This is a prima facie case for de facto censorship...If the government wants to allow its equipment to be used by studios, it needs to grant access to anyone who wants to use it – that
1920-579: Was developing a 4++ fighter, the MiG-35 , with the first deliveries expected in late 2019. Mikoyan is set to fly the PAK DP aka MiG-41 their first stealth interceptor in 2025. The company specializes in the production of military aircraft. The Russian government has issued licenses to RSC MiG for the development, production and technical support of civil and military aviation equipment. The total volume of production of MiG brand aircraft by domestic aircraft factories
1968-433: Was made into a 2013 film of the same name directed by Takashi Yamazaki . The hungarian mini-series Őrjárat az égen (1970) depicts Aero L-29 Delfín . A heavily modified Aérospatiale Gazelle was the centerpiece of the 1983 John Badham action film Blue Thunder . The same helicopter appeared in the short-lived 1984 TV series by the same name starring James Farentino . The modified Gazelle went on to be used in
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2016-682: Was named the winner of the third competition "Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year" in two nominations: "For the creation of a new scientific model of a physical phenomenon or technological process" and "For successes in the development of aviation equipment and components" (OKB of the year). Since June 1, 2022, it has been part of the association of PJSC UAC JSC RSK MiG, as well as JSC Sukhoi Company. Aircraft in fiction#MiGs Various real-world aircraft have long made significant appearances in fictional works, including books, films, toys, TV programs, video games, and other media. The first aviation film
2064-411: Was painted with USAS insignia while a second was painted with German markings. Stunt pilot Dick Grace was hired to deliberately crash-land both of them in separate scenes, which severely damaged both aircraft. Grace escaped injury on both occasions. Avro Ansons featured in the 1940 novel Landfall by Nevil Shute , a story about a young British pilot named Chambers flying with RAF Coastal Command in
2112-498: Was played by Barry Bostwick in the miniseries. An Avro Ashton , in its six-engined, Olympus testbed form, appeared as the fictitious Phoenix airliner in Cone of Silence (1960), based on the novel of the same name by David Beaty , a former BOAC pilot. This concerned the takeoff problems of the Phoenix , and the subsequent accident investigation; it was based on two takeoff accidents to
2160-547: Was returned to flying condition. This aircraft is now with the Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing at Camarillo Airport ." The A5M and A6M are both featured in The Wind Rises , a 2013 Studio Ghibli animated fictionalized biopic of Zero designer Jiro Horikoshi. Zero fighters are shown in the 2013 Japanese novel Eien No Zero ( The Eternal Zero ) by Naoki Hyakuta , which
2208-484: Was the 1911 William J. Humphrey –directed two-reeler, The Military Air-Scout , shot after an Aero Club of America flying meet at Long Island , New York. The stunt flying was done by Lt. Henry H. Arnold , "who picked up 'a few extra bucks' for his services" and "became so excited about movies that he almost quit the Army to become an actor." The years between World War I and World War II saw extensive use of aircraft,
2256-514: Was the most successful Italian film of the pre-World War II era; Luciano Serra pilota ( Luciano Serra, Pilot ) was inextricably linked to the Fascist government via Mussolini's son Vittorio , who was the driving force behind the film's production. The film, set between 1921 and the Italo-Abyssinian War , was used to compare the allegedly moribund state of aviation in pre-Fascist Italy with
2304-737: Was the successor to the Soviet Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau (Микоя́н и Гуре́вич, МиГ; OKB -155 design office prefix MiG ) founded in 1939 by aircraft designers Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich . Mikoyan were notable for their fighter and interceptor aircraft which became a staple of the Soviet Air Force and Russian Air Forces , nations within the Soviet sphere of influence , and other nations such as India and many Arab states. Mikoyan aircraft were frequently used in aerial confrontations with American and allied forces during and since
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