Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrage signaled yet another notch of military escalation by the Egyptians, who are now more belligerent than at any other time since last year's Six-Day War. All week, Cairo had feted a group of MIG fighter pilots who claimed to have recently shot down three Israeli planes (the Israelis dryly commented that "all of our planes returned safely to base"). Now Egypt's War Minister and Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Muhammad Fawzi, visited the Suez front, liberally passing out medals and praise...
Dangerous Imbalance. Under the treaty, the Soviets agreed to pay part of the upkeep costs of their troops, but the Czechoslovaks are obligated to furnish the garrisons with barracks. The Soviet air force is taking over five fields, from which it will fly MIG-21 interceptors and SU-7 and YAK-28 Firebar fighter-bombers. All in all, the Soviets will leave behind a force sufficient to keep the Czechoslovaks in line and NATO worried about the threat to West Germany's exposed southern flank...
...Schirra family specialty. Wally's father was a World War I fighter pilot who later barnstormed with his wife as wing-walker. Wally himself soloed at 16, and went into naval aviation soon after graduation from Annapolis. He flew 90 combat missions in Korea, shot down one MIG and scored one "possible." On the first unsuccessful attempt to launch Gemini 6, when the Titan booster belched smoke and flames without lifting off, Schirra correctly decided that there was no danger of an explosion. He made a split-second decision not to damage the spacecraft by pulling the seat-ejection...
...maintenance on a plane is finished and night approaches. Once the crews in their respective bars are alerted and "poured out into their planes," they take off on their flights to Biafra, juggling flight plans so as to fly always at night, when the Egyptians piloting Nigeria's MIG's refuse...
...arms buildup threatens the area. In fact, the Russians have signed an agreement with Cairo providing for massive new military aid beyond replacement of Arab losses during last year's Six-Day War. Shipments are now leaving Russia carrying the first installments of a promised 500 tanks, 200 MIG-21 and MIG-23 jets, and several hundred self-propelled artillery pieces. Meantime, Russian peace proposals, such as the one made public last week, reiterated Arab demands for prior return of their occupied lands, while the Israelis insist on discussing only a package settlement...