Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture had an equally interesting story, according to Mrs. Dobbins. A young Air Force man, flying over Korea, had snapped a dogfight between a U.N. plane and a Communist plane. He had sent the film home to his mother in Chicago to be developed. When it was, she was amazed to see the image in the clouds. She sent the copy to her brother in Ashland, who made more copies. Mrs. Dobbins had got her picture from a neighbor, who got it from her daughter-in-law, who bought it for $1 from a woman who got it from...
...feel pretty good when you're on someone's tail and shooting at him. You don't know there are other planes in the sky. The speeds are terrific-we actually dogfight at Mach 1.0, the speed of sound. The controls are hard to move and you have to use both hands on them...
...decide it "once and for all." Some people see in this move a last minute attempt by retiring Commissioner Chandler to prove his indispensible political influence. Whatever the lawmakers may say, the reserve clause is essential. Without it, signing of contracts every year would turn into a running dogfight between the owners and players, in which the rich clubs would corral the best talent. Further, owners would not pour thousands of dollars into the huge farm systems which produce the ballplayers, without assurance that players thus developed would not join another club later...
...Thunderjets undertook to drive the attackers off (while the Sabres stayed close to the bombers) and did it quickly. After two MIGs had been hit, the rest streaked for safety across the Yalu; the U.S. pilots broke off the pursuit at the river. In this biggest dogfight of the war, no U.S. plane was scratched...
...second battle-biggest jet dogfight in air history-35 to 40 MIGs fought 15 F-86s. After visible hits had been registered on two of the enemy, all streaked to safety across the Manchurian border. The U.S. Air Force did not know whether the MIGs were flown by Russians or Chinese. In any case, the enemy pilots seemed to lack confidence in themselves or in their aircraft-perhaps both...