Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike at the Red airstrip under construction at Taechon, 45 miles south of the Yalu. U.N. escort fighters were able to beat off Russian-built MIG interceptors, and the only loss-one of nine bombers attacking-was to flak. The pilot nursed the crippled 6-29 out over the Yellow Sea, where Lieut. Donald A. Birch used his precision bombsight to aim parachuting fellow crewmen at a tiny island. Twelve were rescued...
...last week, U.S. Sabre jets shot down nine enemy MIG-15s. It was the biggest one-day bag of the Korean war (previous one-day record: six, on Dec. 22 and Oct. 2). Although the Red jet flyers have been improving recently, the Sabre pilots, according to U.S. airmen, have been improving even faster...
Some correspondents, after talking to U.N. pilots, were convinced that a new Red jet had made its debut-either a beefed-up MIG-15 or a new-model MIG. The U.S. Air Force did its best to squelch such speculations. Improved Red air tactics, said a high-ranking U.S. airman ("It's only logical to assume they've held exhaustive critiques on our tactics"), could give the mistaken impression that the Reds are flying better planes...
...crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft had to stay on the spot all night. Next morning they got the MIG on board and made off with it safely...
Last week the MIG was under study at the U.S. Air Force's experimental base in Dayton. First discovery: the engine, which almost everyone had feared was a redoubtable fruit of Russian-plus-German technology, was an unmodified, British-made Rolls-Royce Nene. Britain had shipped perhaps 100 jet engines to Russia before the trade was stopped in January...