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...months, U.N. commanders in Korea tried by various devices and ruses to lay hands on one of the enemy's Russian-built MIG-15 fighters. For months, the Reds foiled them. In London last week the British Admiralty proudly told how a splendid specimen of the sleek MIG was grabbed at last for U.N. scrutiny...
...crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft had to stay on the spot all night. Next morning they got the MIG on board and made off with it safely...
Last week the MIG was under study at the U.S. Air Force's experimental base in Dayton. First discovery: the engine, which almost everyone had feared was a redoubtable fruit of Russian-plus-German technology, was an unmodified, British-made Rolls-Royce Nene. Britain had shipped perhaps 100 jet engines to Russia before the trade was stopped in January...
...Yakovlev). Latest Red swept-wing interceptor, designed as the successor to the MIG-15 and LA-17. No details on performance...
Artem I. Mikoyan, 52, Armenian-born brother of top Politburocrat Anastas I. Mikoyan and designer of Russia's famed MIG-15, which won him the 1947 Stalin Prize. Hot-tempered, limelight-hogging, he teamed up with Structural Specialist Mikhail Gurevich to produce World War II's MIG1 and MIG3 (the Russian Spitfire), after the war turned out a jet-propelled MIG-15, the first Russian jet to go into quantity production. He has twice been accused of using "capitalist tactics" to boost production of his own planes over others...