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...been Red prisoners at one time. Among 944 Americans on the list: Air Force Captain James A. Van Fleet Jr., West Pointer son of the former Eighth Army commander; Jet Ace Captain Harold E. Fischer, who bagged most of his ten enemy planes by disdaining the prized radar gunsight, relying instead on naked eyesight and "Kentucky windage...
...drew a bead on a MIG-15 as if he were leading a wild duck. Interviewed last month on becoming a "double ace," he embarrassed the Air Force by saying that he knocked out eight of his ten MIGs, not by using the Air Force's fine radar gunsight, but just by using "Kentucky windage" to get on his target...
...first-class military fighter, a nimbler craft in maneuver, a faster climber, with more speed above 32,000 feet than the heavier, longer-ranged Sabre. Among reasons for the Sabre's performance in battle: superior speed below 25,000 feet, better diving speed, a fine electronic computing gunsight, better pilots. "If I could have a couple of sessions against those characters in one of their own planes," said a U.S. airman last week, "I could really show 'em some tricks...
...then only under 30,000 feet. It has a more powerful engine, is lighter, more maneuverable, can climb faster than the F-86. U.S. pilots have knocked the MIGs down with shooting-gallery precision, partly because U.S. pilots are better trained, have the advantage of a much better electronic gunsight. Even so, every once in a while, a special flight of red-nosed MIGs scrambles up from Antung across the Yalu. They are the first team. Then, say the Sabre pilots, there is "one grand hassle...
When the climax comes, another electronic assistant, the Sperry A1C radar gunsight, will help the pilot hit the enemy. Jet fighters move so fast that the pilot has only a few seconds for firing, and human eyes and brains cannot be depended upon to select those seconds unfailingly. The radar gunsight (still under thick wraps) makes all the calculations automatically. It tracks the target, measuring its distance, direction and relative speed. All the pilot has to do is keep the target inside a circle of light on his windshield. When the enemy plane is in a position where it will...