Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubled." He was not satisfied with "the present 30% guns, 70% butter" defense program, but he favored full mobilization only if "war was inevitable"-and he did not think that was the case, although he was pessimistic. He threw a scare into the Senators by declaring that the Russian MIG-15 (powered, like the Navy's Panther and other fighter craft, with a redesigned Rolls-Royce Nene engine) is "superior to any jet engine that we have today" in "speed and climb and operations at altitude...
...MIG leader went over-that was the place where he couldn't see me-I turned toward the coast. It would take him about four minutes to go up and turn back. We'd be that much ahead of the game. West of Sinanju the gunners reported the MIGs again, 9 o'clock high, forming for attack. I pulled the formation together and instructed the pilots to make shallow turns into the Red fighters. That would get us near them faster, give them less shooting time...
...tradition that an "ace" is a pilot who shoots down five or more enemy planes. In Korea last week, small, cigar-puffing Captain James Jabara of Wichita, Kan. (TIME, April 23) became the world's first jet-powered ace when he knocked down his fifth and sixth MIG-155, in "MIG Alley" near Sinuiju...
Jabara, propeller ace (6½ enemy planes) in World War II, first jumped three MIGs at 35,000 feet. "I picked out the last man and bored straight in," he said. "I fired two bursts which ripped up the fuselage and left wing. The MIG burst into flame and snap-rolled twice. At about 10,000 feet the pilot bailed out. Just as he jumped, the MIG disintegrated." Then Jabara climbed back to 20,000 and got No. 6. (This week Ace Jabara was relieved of combat flying, sent to a Japanese air base as an instructor in jet-fighting...
...planes were damaged by antiaircraft fire. During the attack, some 50 MIG-15s whirled up from Antung, but only a dozen of them challenged the U.S. raiders, and were easily driven off. The others headed back into Manchuria-apparently under the erroneous impression that the U.S. had decided to hit Antung and other Manchurian lairs...