Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly a month, U.N. pilots in Korea had been catching glimpses of a new Russian jet fighter. Last week First Lieut. James D. Carey of Las Vegas, Nev. "found myself on the tail of this funny-looking bird. Looked like a MIG-15, except the wings were high up on the fuselage. I gave him a few bursts and caught him in the right wing. Then other Reds started coming from all sides, and I had to get out. They seemed to be trying to protect...
Next day F-86 Sabre jets spotted a formation of the new planes, but the Reds refused to fight. The Air Force's first hunch was that the Russians were trying an advanced new MIG, possibly the much rumored MIG-19. But later the Air Force guessed that the new plane is either an older, experimental MIG model never mass-produced, or no MIG at all, and dubbed it tentatively "Type...
Five and a half feet longer and 25 m.p.h. slower than the stripped-down MIG-15, the new "Type 15" probably has a longer range, thus might be useful if the Communists decide to try something they haven't dared before: low-level attacks on the U.N.'s fighter-plane bases in South Korea. MIG-15s presumably could not go that far and back from their Manchurian sanctuary...
...R.A.F. has no fighter plane to match the MIG-15 or U.S. Sabre jet. To remedy this, the government will give "super-priority" to the swept-wing jet interceptors...
...have brought forth a first-class jet fighter plane. Last week a few of the wraps were taken off the Mystère MD-452, a swept-wing job more or less in the same league as the U.S.'s F-86 Sabre jets and Russia's MIG-15s. The Mystère was developed by French engineers using $5,000,000 worth of U.S. machine tools, furnished by the Mutual Security Agency...