Word: outclimb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flew his Foxbat to northern Japan's Hakodate airport last month (TIME, Sept. 20). Meanwhile, as the Soviets fume, American aeronautical experts have been examining the MIG-25 inch by eager inch, learning everything they always wanted to know about the one plane in the world that can outclimb and outfly the hottest U.S. fighters...
...Russians have also brought in some of their newest equipment: Mach 2.5 twin-jet interceptors called the SU-11, which are not believed to be operational even in the Soviet air force, and the lethal Mach 3 MIG-23 "Fox-bat," which can easily outclimb the Phantoms of the Israeli air force...