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Aktungbby · 11-08-14, 03:30 PM

1950: Lt Russell J Brown engages a Russian MIG15 in history's first jet- to-jet combat! What United Nations experts did not know was that the “Chinese air force” included entire squadrons of Russians who were drilling in MiG-15s on the north bank of the Yalu. On Nov. 8, 1950, F-80C Shooting Star pilot Lt. Russell J. Brown was credited with shooting down a MiG-15. In recent years, records surfaced indicating that no MiG fell that day, but Brown remains in the books as the victor in history’s first jet-versus-jet aerial combat.

1 NOV 1950: MiG-15A "Fagot" (no longer PC ofcourse) intercepted 10 F-80 Shooting Stars, and First Lieutenant Semyon Fyodorovich Khominich scored the first jet-vs-jet victory in history when he downed the F-80C of Capt. Frank Van Sickle, WWII P-51 veteran, who would perish (USAF credits the loss to the action of the North Korean flak).

" Rolls-Royce Avon were some years ahead of the currently available British Rolls-Royce Nene engine. The Soviet aviation minister Mikhail Khrunichev and aircraft designer A. S. Yakovlev therefore suggested to Premier Joseph Stalin that the USSR buy the conservative but fully developed Nene engines from Rolls-Royce for the clandestine purpose copying them in a minimum of time. Somewhat logically, Stalin is said to have replied, "What fool will sell us his secrets?" Designated MiG-15, the first production example flew on 31 December 1948. It entered Soviet Air Force service in 1949, and subsequently received the NATO reporting name "Fagot." Early production examples had a tendency to roll to the left or to the right due to manufacturing variances, so aerodynamic trimmers called "nozhi" (knives) were fitted to correct the problem, the knives being adjusted by ground crews until the aircraft flew correctly. The MiG-15 arguably had sufficient power to dive at supersonic speeds, but the lack of an "all-flying" tail greatly diminished the pilot's ability to control the aircraft as it approached Mach 1. As a result, pilots understood they must not exceed Mach 0.92, where the flight surfaces became ineffective. Additionally, the MiG-15 tended to spin after it stalled, and often the pilot could not recover. Later MiGs incorporated all-flying tails." Whatever it problems, the RR engine MIG outclassed the 'Shooting Star' F 80C

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,175 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Propaganda rules the skys 1950: Lt Russell J Brown engages a Russian MIG15 in history's *first* jet- to-jet combat! What United Nations experts did not know was that the “Chinese air force” included entire squadrons of Russians who were drilling in MiG-15s on the north bank of the Yalu. On Nov. 8, 1950, F-80C Shooting Star pilot Lt. Russell J. Brown was credited with shooting down a MiG-15. *In recent years, records surfaced indicating that no MiG fell that day, but Brown remains in the books as the victor in history’s first jet-versus-jet aerial combat.* 1 NOV 1950: MiG-15A "Fagot" (no longer PC ofcourse) intercepted 10 F-80 Shooting Stars, and First Lieutenant Semyon Fyodorovich Khominich scored the first jet-vs-jet victory in history when he downed the F-80C of Capt. Frank Van Sickle, WWII P-51 veteran, who would perish (USAF credits the loss to the action of the North Korean flak). " Rolls-Royce Avon were some years ahead of the currently available British Rolls-Royce Nene engine. The Soviet aviation minister Mikhail Khrunichev and aircraft designer A. S. Yakovlev therefore suggested to Premier Joseph Stalin that the USSR buy the conservative but fully developed Nene engines from Rolls-Royce for the clandestine purpose copying them in a minimum of time. Somewhat logically, Stalin is said to have replied, "What fool will sell us his secrets?" Designated MiG-15, the first production example flew on 31 December 1948. It entered Soviet Air Force service in 1949, and subsequently received the NATO reporting name "Fagot." Early production examples had a tendency to roll to the left or to the right due to manufacturing variances, so aerodynamic trimmers called "nozhi" (knives) were fitted to correct the problem, the knives being adjusted by ground crews until the aircraft flew correctly. The MiG-15 arguably had sufficient power to dive at supersonic speeds, but the lack of an "all-flying" tail greatly diminished the pilot's ability to control the aircraft as it approached Mach 1. As a result, pilots understood they must not exceed Mach 0.92, where the flight surfaces became ineffective. Additionally, the MiG-15 tended to spin after it stalled, and often the pilot could not recover. Later MiGs incorporated all-flying tails." Whatever it problems, the RR engine MIG *outclassed* the 'Shooting Star' F 80C __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! Last edited by Aktungbby; 11-08-14 at 04:21 PM.