East German MiG-21F-13 c/n 741608 s/n 737
*7/1964: Delivered to the East Germany AF.
*JAG-3.
*JAG-15.
*1978: AFS-31.
*4/1980: Withdrawn from use.
*Currently preserved at the German Spaceflight Museum at Morgenrothe-Rautenkrautz.

The legend says that this MiG-21 was flown by Sigmund Jähn, the first German Kosmonaut.

General colors used:
Silver (Gray) b3b2b2

This livery is one of three total (JG1_MiG-21Bis_=Q=Green 511, JG1_MiG-21Bis_Tan 478 and MiG-21Bis_Silver 737) that I made for our squad use but I thought that others might enjoy them. All of the three are based on historical aircraft. I have included a second livery for each that has selectable Bort numbers and you can see several different Borts in the screenshots.

Some special features of these skins:

1) I mimicked the East German helmet of orange with a white stripe and three ventilation holes. Also made the visor more transparent. East German flight suit also included.

2) For the camo planes I simulated the dullness of the paint along the overspray edges.

3) I did my best to simulate the "Silver" (aluminum) paint that was applied to Soviet aircraft. There were generally no bare metal aircraft in service AFAIK. Due to in game lighting it sometimes appears too metallic but that's a game rendering limitation.

4) Exhaust cone darkened and slight bluing.

5) Wheels darkened to match photos. They were probably heavily covered in brake dust.

6) I applied German placards / stencils. They're likely not accurate since I used Google Translate from the Russian. I searched long to find official references but found nothing. I also discovered that the default roughmets had the Russian placards in the green channel so I had to erase them to remove the "ghost" placards. I made default roughmets with the placards removed and am posting them on User Files. Look for "MiG-21Bis Roughmet Placards Deleted".