Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force was showing more fight than it had for a long time. Swarms of the enemy's fast, agile MIG-158 rose to contest the air with U.S. F-86 Sabres. On some days, "props" (propeller-driven planes) from both sides joined in the dogfights. The sharpshooting Americans wound up the seven days of battle with a bag of twelve Red planes destroyed, 29 damaged. But over the same period, ten U.S. planes were lost-six to enemy ground fire...
...Korea, Colonel John C. Meyer, 32, the country's top living air ace, was back in the U.S. for a rest and reassignment last week. He was credited with 37½* Nazi planes (four on one mission) in Europe during World War II, had added two Communist MIG-15s to his bag in Korea, and was just half a victory short of the alltime record put up by the late Major Richard Bong. His group, flying sleek, swept-wing F-86 jets, had destroyed or damaged 91 Russian jets, had lost only two of their...
Wing to Wing. The MIG and the F-86 are just about a dead heat, he says, with a slight edge to the F-86: the U.S. superiority these days he attributes mainly to the fact that its combat pilots are handpicked, while the Communists have little high-altitude combat experience. Matter-of-factly, Colonel Meyer told how it felt to fight in the swirling, 700-m.p.h. battles each day 45,000 feet above the Yalu...
...Someone tells you there's a MIG on your tail. Then you don't feel so good. You want to get out of this mess and go home. You know he isn't a good shot, but he's pointing a couple of guns at you. This is the worst feeling...
Meanwhile, Moscow was underlining the urgency of Hoyt Vandenberg's air-defense mission in Paris. The Russians were reported to have moved 500 MIG-15 jets and jet bombers into East Germany to replace their old, propeller-driven planes...