These Russian MiG-3's took care of business upstairs at high altitude, what they were made for, but downstairs at low altitude, what they weren't made for they developed a bad attitude and were hard to handle.

Even though 3,300, Russian MIG's were made, they only lasted half way through the second world war as fighter planes and used as training planes..

The name ' MIG ' was made up from the first letter of the names of the two men who build it, "Mikoyan and Gurevich". The " 3 " came from the modified version of the, MIG-1..