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Somewhere, some time after MIG alley, the change came. For years the U.S. had glimpsed promises of a new U.S. Air Force in the making: a solitary jet streaking the far sky with a white contrail, reports of victorious dogfights between U.S. Sabre jets and the MIG-15 in Korea, a thundering atomic-bomb test or the anguished plea of an Air Force spokesman in Washington for more funds. But the Air Force had lacked that elusive quality that glues the Army, Navy and Marine Corps into cohesive units. Then, by the beginning of this year, it was suddenly clear...
...produced $43 billion in military goods in 1953-about one-half the dollar value of the peak World War II military production. Chief item: 12,000 military planes, of which hundreds were MIG-killing Sabre jets of "Dutch" Kindelberger's North American Aviation, Inc. But the economy was not strained by its huge defense load. The National Planning Association estimated that the U.S. could turn out almost twice as much in arms and still keep the standard of living rising...
...Sabre jet win so many victories (13 to 1) over the MIG-15? Many U.S. fighter pilots insisted the MIGs were so good that only U.S. pilot superiority kept them from sweeping the Sabre jets out of the air. U.S. airplane builders insisted that the Sabre jet was the better airplane. Last week the MIG was appraised by famous U.S. pilots. Their verdict: it is nothing exceptional...
...MIG landed behind U.S. lines by North Korean Pilot Noh Keum Suk on Sept. 21 was flown in simulated combat against Sabre jets by Major General Albert Boyd, commander of Wright Air Development Center, by Major "Chuck" Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than sound, and by Captain Harold E. Collins, who set an official speed record in a Sabre jet. After putting the MIG through its paces, they decided that it 1) has "insufficient stall warning"; 2) has a cramped, uncomfortable cabin with poor heating and ventilation; 3) is hard to control in combat; 4) is "deficient...
Probably most important was the three experts' judgment that the MIG lacks the instruments and controls that make a Sabre jet easy to fly. A MIG pilot, they decided, would be kept so busy flying his airplane that he would have little attention left over "for engaging the enemy...