Here’s What You Need to Remember: Over 10,000 of MiG-17 series were produced and served in Chinese, Vietnamese, Soviet, East German, and Polish air forces, to name a few. Although it never achieved ...
The MiG-15 was a capable little plane that even gave F-86 Sabres a run for their money. But, it had its drawbacks. Flight became stable approaching Mach 1 speeds and automatically slowed down when ...
Nevertheless according to Donald J. McCarthy, Jr. book, “MiG Killers A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories in Vietnam 1965-1973,” the outcome of the air battle during which Kilgus destroyed the MiG-17 ...
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 gave the U.S. Air Force all the hell they could handle throughout multiple conflicts across multiple decades. In its day, countless top-of-the-line American fighter jets ...
MT. VERNON, Ill. (WSIL) -- Airport officials shared some photos of a 1950s era plane which stopped by the Mt. Vernon Airport recently. Airport officials said a MiG-17 stopped by to re-fuel on ...