Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interceptors - a .50-cal. machine gun (developed in 1918) and a 20-mm. cannon (developed during the '30s)-cannot shoot down an enemy jet bomber with any efficiency. In Korea, one F-86 pilot had to spray 1,400 rounds of .50-cal. fire at a Russian MIG-15 fighter before it went down...
This week, as the newly appointed commander of the U.S. Air Force's Fourth (Sabre jet) Fighter Interceptor Group, Gabby, now a full colonel, got a chance to try his formula on Communist MIGs in Korea. Some 15 MIG-15 jets had pounced on a mass flight of U.S. prop-driven Mustangs just north of Pyongyang when Gabreski and his Sabres roared to the rescue. In short order Gabby knocked out one MIG-his first kill in Korea. His teammates shot down two more, damaged a third and sent the others streaking home to Manchuria...
Paul Leach, 60, of the Chicago Daily News, sparks the coverage for the four Knight newspapers (Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon Journal, Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald), and recently caught the Air Force contradicting itself on the relative merits of the Russian MIG and the American...
Since they joined the air war last year (TIME, Jan. 1), the Sabre squadrons had, up to last week, not lost a single plane. Although the unidentified MIG pilots were said to be poor shots, everyone knew that the charmed immunity of the Sabres could not last forever. Last week, the Air Force lost three Sabres, of which at least one was shot down in sight of U.S. pilots...
...Force officers guessed that most of the MIG pilots, whoever they may be, are not Chinese or Koreans. They go to great lengths to prevent identification, rarely venture within ten miles of the front lines, keep radio silence in the air. Captain James Jabara, the world's first jet ace, circled a MIG pilot who had bailed out of his burning craft and tried to get a good look at him as he floated down. But the helmeted and goggled enemy pilot kept his head hunched down and Jabara could not see even a wisp of hair...