Re: What is "MiG Alley"?

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

Received this from AFHRA to-day--Air Force Historical Research Agency

Comments:
                 Thanks for your inquiry,in looking through AFHRA source
documents/books,I could not locate any definitive instance where an aircraft
performed a supersonic flight during the Korean war.I did find instances of
jets flying "near supersonic " speeds,particular by F-86s while in a dive.
Chuck Yeager is credited with the first supersonic flight,on October 14,1947

http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/

Les Hanson        A longAgoAirman
                           6303rd Air Terminal Squadron
                            Naha AB,Okinawa
                              Nov 1949--Sept 15 1951
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From: "Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>
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Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: What is "MiG Alley"?


> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <AMPSOne@aol.com>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> 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
> >
>