Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply, MIG jets soared up to play tag with the Western planes, just as they had done several times before in Berlin's war of nerves. Most kept their distance, but not all. One U.S. Air Force Globemaster pilot reported that a "stranger" zoomed to within 20 ft. of his wingtip, and a plane carrying Sir Christopher Steel, the British ambassador in Bonn, was buzzed by high-diving Communist pilots...
...crowd of 500,000 Cubans looked on, 1 8 Soviet-built MIG-17s plus three supersonic MIG-19s thundered over the reviewing stand. One MIG cracked the sound barrier with a thunderclapping boom. Below, past 100-ft.-high pictures of Castro. Lenin and Picasso's peace dove, the ground forces paraded to the strains of the Communist Internationale-artillery with radar-aiming devices, multiple rocket launchers, double-barrelled antiaircraft guns and Soviet 51-ton tanks...
...muscle to his speech, Sukarno has assembled an invasion army of 16,000 (backed up by another 100,000) on a small group of islands near the coast of New Guinea, which is defended by some 5,000 Dutch soldiers and marines. For air cover Sukarno can use 60 MIG jet fighters and 26 TU-16 bombers supplied him by the Soviet Union...
...confer, it was still not certain that Nikita Khrushchev was ready to negotiate on rational terms. Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovosky, in an ominous article in Pravda, said that Russia must arm its forces for "a strenuous, difficult and exceptionally fierce war." Along Western air corridors to Berlin, Soviet MIG-17s began making close-up inspections of U.S. passenger liners-the first such incidents in a year. There was a rising chorus of East German and Soviet complaints that the Allies were "misusing" the corridors-a possible foreshadowing of Red efforts to interfere with the Western rights of access...
...Communists were testing jamming devices to knock out the planes' radio navigation. Some crews reported East German searchlights on them. And one afternoon last week, Pan American's Flight No. 609, flying well in the center of the northern corridor to Hamburg, spotted a Soviet MIG-17 fighter with six rockets under each wing soaring 200 ft. off the airliner's right wingtip. "He just sat there, where all the passengers could see him," said Pan Am Captain Tony Duff. When Duff's plane entered a convenient layer of stratus cloud, the MIG peeled...