The Little World

Soviet designers seem to have gravitated between these two influences.

Either their designs resemble natural bird shapes or they look like lizards stretched out on a rock. In the case of the MiG 3 the avian predominates. Look at the rear view while the tail feathers are being put on – if that is not a pigeon shape I don’t know wnat it is.

Of course, once the third layer of paint goes over the second layer of masking no-one knows what the heck the thing is. It is all you can do not to reach for the Mortein or the swatter…