Later MiG-17s would be the first Soviet fighter application of an afterburner, which burned extra fuel in the exhaust of the basic engine to give extra thrust at a high efficiency cost. Though the MiG-17 looks very similar to the MiG-15, it had a new thinner and more highly swept wing and tailplane for speeds approaching Mach 1.

The afterburner increased the original MiG 17 VK-1A engine’s thrust by 25% . The new engine was known as the VK-1F and used on all MiG 17 after serial number 850.

Jan 21, 2023 · Randy Ball shows off the beautiful flickering afterburner of his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 'Fresco' during the Wednesday Night airshow at EAA AirVenture 2022 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Apr 30, 2018 · The MiG 17 had increased power from a developed version of the Nene engine giving 7,450 lb thrust with afterburner. Early MiG 17s had the MiG 15's armament of one N37 37mm cannon with 40 rounds and two 23mm NR23 with 80 rounds each, but many later aircraft substituted a third NR23 for the 37mm gun, giving a combined rate of fire of around 2,500 ...

Equipped with the VK-1F, the MiG‑17 was the first Soviet fighter with an afterburner. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, MiG-17s flooded into the United States. Their significance in the...

The upgrade package, titled the MiG-17PF, incorporated both the MiG-17F upgrade of adding an afterburner to the VK-1 engine for increased thrust, and the upgrade of the MiG-17P to add an RP-5 Izumrud radar system for all-weather capability.

This airplane also features a unique afterburner section, which came from the United States Air Forces 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron where the burner section was tuned in order to provide the ideal flight envelope for simulating adversary aircraft in dissimilar air combat training.

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Nov 28, 2020 · I’m gonna say that’s an afterburner. I don’t know much about the Fresco, but I can’t find any history of the MiG-17 or Bill Reesman using a rocket booster.

Oct 22, 2020 · I forgot to specify that this is a Mig-17F, which is the first soviet aircraft to have an afterburner. For those who are curious, the engine is the Kimov VK-1 .