Re: What is "MiG Alley"?

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

Cookie,
          I just sent a require to Maxwell AFB for their information on the
Air Forces first supersonic flight.When ever i receive i will let you know
results.
Les Hanson       ALongAgoAirman
                          1948-1953
                           Naha Okinawa 1949-1951   51st FIW to sept 1950
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Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: What is "MiG Alley"?


> Les,
>
> Don't think he was arguing with the quote, but its authors.
>
> F-86 could only go supersonic in a shallow dive (if the pilot wanted to
pull
> out of it!) and the MiG-15 had an automatic gizmo that popped the
airbrakes
> around Mach 0.95-0.97 to make sure it could not. Also, the kills listed
were
> validated claims, and the Soviet lists are quite different -- something
around
> 30-35 aircraft vice 117.
>
> It sounds more like early 1950s "Hoorah!" stuff than fact.
>
> Cookie Sewell
> AMPS
>