Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They had a top speed of only 500 m.p.h., but they have been surpassed by new models. One of their best: the swift-wing MIG-15, which U.S. jet airmen have met in Korea. It is fast, may well be the equal in speed of the latest U.S. jets in service...
...Soviet planes are named after their designers. Thus YAK is for Colonel General A. S. Yakolev, MIG is for the designing team of Mikoyan & Gurevich, TU for Andrei Tupolev...
...feet above the burning North Korean border city of Sinuiju last week, fighter planes in history's first jet dogfight streaked across the morning sky. Eight or more Russian-made MIG-15s tangled for a deadly moment with four U.S. Lockheed F-80s. The score: one Communist jet shot down, another damaged; U.S. fighters, untouched...
...first Red jet got past Stephens, who "pulled the second MIG into my sights and fired. Debris flew off his wing tip and he went into a dive and got away across the border." Brown, meanwhile, was on the tail of the first enemy. Said Brown later: "He was diving at a near vertical angle. I figured we were both doing more than 600 miles an hour. Anyway, the last time I looked at the airspeed indicator it was registering 600 and I think I picked up speed after that...
...MIG was not pulling away from me-but I wasn't closing the gap either. I was at the extreme effective firing range, but when I saw I couldn't gain on him I led him with my sights and held down the gun trigger. After two or three seconds of my fire his engine section area began to smoke and then his engine exploded. The MIG pilot did not get out, and his plane went into the ground...