Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the 670-m.p.h. F-86 Sabre, now spearheading the air fight against Russian-built MIG-15s in Korea, has been held back from mass production while North American Aviation improves the plane. North American has put three distinct models of the Sabre in production...
...last week 34 U.S. B-29s lumbered up "MIG Alley" to drop 260 tons of bombs on bridges across the lower Yalu. The enemy's fast MIG-15s, squatting on their nests behind the Manchurian border, howled up to attack, 40 strong, in spite of 80 U.S. jets (50 F-84 Thunderjets and 30 F-86 Sabres) escorting the bombers...
...Russian MIG-15 jet fighters...
Like a Mixmaster. Said Captain Allen McGuire: "We flew east to get out of flak from across the Yalu. Then we turned south and west, and when I looked at the air over the Sinuiju field, it looked like a Mixmaster. We turned north, and I saw a MIG turning in front of us. I don't think he saw us. I gave the MIG a burst from 2,500 feet. My wingman said that he saw MIGs coming in from 6 o'clock and would have to leave me in a minute. Three seconds later he said...
After this battle, the total MIG score for the U.S. was 20 destroyed, ten probably destroyed, 32 damaged. The Air Forces announced that five U.S. jets had been lost since Nov. 1. Said Captain William Slaughter: "Let's admit it-the MIG is all right. It's a damned fine airplane. The F-84 is all right, too.* But if we were flying the MIG and they were flying the 84, I think we would be murdering them...