18 MiGs Cornered His Damaged Sabre

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The altimeter spins downward through 12,000 ft. Second Lieutenant Bill Garrett grips the control stick of his F86A Saber with both hands, his left arm throbbing from shrapnel wounds. Behind him, black smoke pours from the punctured J47 engine. Around him, 18 Soviet piloted Mig 15s circle like wolves, closing on wounded prey. It is October 6th, 1951. The coordinates place him over the Soosan Bay, where the Yellow Sea meets North Korea’s western coast. Garrett has perhaps 2 minutes before his engine quits completely. He reaches for the twin ejection handles above his head, the handles that should rocket him clear of the dying fighter and into his parachute. But something is wrong. When the 37 mm cannon shell from Colonel Yevghani Pepa’s MIG exploded behind his cockpit 3 minutes ago, it didn’t just destroy his engine. The blast severed the hydraulic lines to his North American Aviation ejection seat. The seat is ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. The explosive charge beneath him is useless metal. If he pulls those handles, nothing will happen. He will ride his saber all the way into the frozen water below. Garrett is 23 years old. He has been in combat for 8 weeks. What he doesn’t know is that above him, Soviet commanders are issuing frantic radio calls. They want his aircraft intact. Premier Joseph Stalin himself has ordered the capture of an F86 Saber, and Garrett is about to deliver one. What he doesn’t know is that his broken ejection seat, the malfunction that should kill him, will instead spark a three-hour air battle cost seven Soviet fighters and lead to a technological arms race that will save thousands of lives. What he doesn’t know is that in 50 years, retired Soviet engineers will still be arguing about the modifications they made to their fighters because of what happens in the next 10 minutes. The engine coughs. The stick goes mushy in his hand. 8,000 ft. The MiGs are diving now, guns blazing, trying to finish him off. His radio crackles with American voices, his squadron mates screaming for him to eject, to get out now. But Bill Garrett cannot eject. So he does the only thing left. He aims his 23,000lb fighter at a mud flat on the coast, cuts his speed to 140 knots, and praise the impact doesn’t snap his spine. This is the story of the day the Cold War turned H๏τ over a piece of wreckage half buried in Korean mud. 6 months earlier on April 12th, 1951, USAF intelligence officers in Tokyo gathered around a conference table to review casualty reports that made no sense whatsoever. In March alone, they had lost 12 F86 Sabers over northwestern Korea. But the loss reports contained impossible details. Enemy pilots were executing energy tactics that Chinese and North Korean pilots hadn’t demonstrated before. Radio intercepts captured commands in Russian. Gun camera footage showed firing solutions too precise, too practiced. The conclusion was classified top secret. Soviet pilots were flying combat missions over Korea in direct violation of international law. The best trained fighter pilots from World War II were now facing off against American pilots in swept-wing jets at 40,000 ft in an undeclared air war over a region pilots had nicknamed MiG Alley. By October 1951, the statistics were getting worse. Soviet units like the 324th Fighter Air Division were shooting down B29 Superfortresses at a rate of one per mission. The big bombers, the same aircraft that had leveled Japan 6 years earlier, were being pulled from daylight operations entirely. The F86 Saber was America’s only answer to the MiG 15, but the Air Force had fewer than 100 Sabers in theater. They were outnumbered 4 to1. The MiG 15 itself was a revelation. Powered by a reverse engineered British Rolls-Royce Na Na engine, it could climb to 50,000 ft and accelerate past 670 mph. Its three cannons, two 23 mm and one 37 mm, could destroy a bomber with a single burst. Soviet test pilots had evaluated it against every western fighter they could steal or capture. It was by every measure the the most dangerous fighter aircraft in the world. Except for one problem. It couldn’t consistently kill F86 Sabers. American pilots were claiming kill ratios as high as 8:1. Soviet pilots disputed these numbers and they were probably right to do so. But even Soviet records showed they were losing more aircraft than they should. The question was why? The answer lay in a single piece of equipment mounted behind the gun site of every F86. The A/APG30 radar ranging system. While MIG 15 pilots relied on manual gun sights designed in 1939, devices that required the pilot to estimate range, deflection, and target speed simultaneously. The F86’s radar automatically computed firing solutions. The Saber pilot simply put his Pipper on the target, waited for the range bar to show between 1,000 and 3,000 ft, and squeezed the trigger. The 6.5 caliber machine guns did the rest. The Soviets knew about this technological advantage through intelligence reports and interrogations of captured American pilots. But intelligence reports weren’t enough. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin wanted the actual hardware. He wanted engineers to take it apart, understand it, and copy it. In April 1951, he issued a direct order to the Soviet fighter units in Manuria. Capture an F86 Saber intact. The Soviet air force’s first attempt was, in retrospect, embarrᴀssing. A special team of test pilots from the Central Aererohydrodnamics Insтιтute in Moscow arrived in Manuria with a plan to force an F86 to land by boxing it in with MiGs and escorting it to a Chinese airfield. They practiced formation flying for a month. Then on May 31st, 1951, they during their first combat mission, a USAF pilot sH๏τ down the senior test pilot leading the formation. The commander died in a crash landing. The survivors were quietly sent back to Moscow and the plan was abandoned. But Stalin’s order remained in effect. Soviet fighters were understanding instructions. If you damage an F86, follow it down. If it crashes anywhere within reach, secure the wreckage. By October 1951, they had been waiting 5 months for an opportunity. Bill Garrett was about to give them one. Second Lieutenant Bill N. Garrett grew up in rural Arkansas with dirt under his fingernails and no particular ambitions beyond working his family’s farm. He had never seen an airplane up close until he enlisted in the Air Force in 1948. And he had never imagined himself as a fighter pilot. He didn’t have the pedigree. See, he wasn’t an academy graduate. He hadn’t flown in World War II. At 23, he was one of the youngest pilots in the 334th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, part of the fourth fighter interceptor wing, the MIG killers, who flew out of Kimo Air Base, South Korea. His squadron mates were legends. Captain James Jabara, the first jet ace in history. Major George Davis, who would postumously receive the Medal of Honor. These were men who flew with the precision of surgeons and the aggression of prize fighters. Garrett was just trying to keep up. He had arrived in Korea in August 1951 with 58 hours in the F86. His training back in the States had focused on formation flying and gunnery against towed targets. No one had trained him for the chaos of Mig Alley. They were Soviet aces with over a 100 combat missions would bounce American formations from above, execute high G barrel rolls, and disappear back across the Yaloo River before you could get a firing solution. Garrett’s first five missions produced no kills, no damage, and a growing certainty that he was going to die before he figured out how to fight in a jet. On his sixth mission, September 29th, 1951, he finally got a MIG in his sights and watched his guns jam. After a two-cond burst, the MIG escaped. Garrett landed, kicked the tires of his Saber, and spent an hour in the maintenance tent learning how to clear a gun jam in flight. On October 4th, 1951, Garrett got his first kill. He had bounced a MiG 15 over Sinuiju, fired a 3-second burst from 800 ft, and watched the MiG’s canopy separate from the fuselage. So the pilot never ejected. Garrett flew back to Kimpo in silence, landed, filled out his afteraction report, and threw up behind the operations tent. 2 days later, he was ᴀssigned to an early morning patrol over the Yalu River. At 0530 hours, 16 F86A Sabers from the fourth fighter interceptor wing taxied onto the runway at Kimo Air Base. Garrett’s aircraft, serial number 49-1319, was fourth in the takeoff sequence. The mission was routine. Fly north to the Yaloo River. Patrol Mig Alley at 35,000 ft and engage any enemy aircraft attempting to attack UN ground forces. The weather was clear. Intelligence reported approximately 40 MiG 15s active over Andune airfield on the Chinese side of the Yalu. The rules of engagement were explicit. Do not cross the Yalu River under any circumstances. Politically, neither the United States could not admit it was fighting Soviet pilots, violating Chinese airspace would provide Moscow with propaganda ammunition. Garrett took off at 0547 hours. By 0620 hours, he was over the Yalu at 37,000 ft, scanning the sky for contrails. At 0632 hours, his squadron leader called out enemy aircraft. At 2:00 high, 18 MiG 15s were diving out of the sun. The Soviet formation came down like hammers. Colonel Yvghani Pepil, commander of the 196th Fighter Air Regiment and the highest scoring Soviet ace in Korea, led the attack. His wingman was Captain Constantine Sherstoff, a veteran of the Eastern Front who had 63 World War II missions. They had spotted the American formation 10 minutes earlier and climbed to 42,000 ft to position for a classic bounce. High, the fast, and out of the sun. Garrett saw them half a second before the radios exploded with warnings. He broke hard left, pulling six G’s, and felt his vision gray at the edges as his blood drained toward his boots. The first MIG oversH๏τ, but the second MIG, flown by Pepili, adjusted and fired a 2-cond burst from his 37 mm cannon, one shell connected. The explosion happened behind Garrett’s ejection seat in the engine bay. The J47 turbine disintegrated. Shrapnel punctured the hydraulic lines running to the flight controls and ejection seat. Fuel lines ruptured instantly. Garrett’s cockpit filled with warning lights and alarm tones. Engine fire, hydraulic failure, flight control degradation. And then he noticed the handles. Now, every F86 pilot knew the ejection sequence by heart. Pull the twin handles above your head, tuck your head forward, cross your legs, and the explosive charge beneath the seat would rocket you clear of the aircraft at 60 ft per second. The parachute would deploy automatically. The entire sequence took 4 seconds. Garrett pulled the safety pins and reached for the handles. Then he stopped. The hydraulic pressure gauge was reading zero. No hydraulics meant no ejection seat. The explosive charge was electrically fired through a hydraulic actuator. No hydraulics, no ejection. He was trapped in a dying aircraft at 37,000 ft, surrounded by enemy fighters. Garrett’s training took over. He nosed the Saber into a dive, heading west toward the Yellow Sea. If he could make it to the water, the Air Rescue Service could pick him up. If he stayed over North Korea, he’d spend the rest of the war in a Chinese prison camp, or worse, in Soviet hands. The MiGs followed. Pepily and Sheberstov had realized what was happening. A damaged F86 limping toward the coast, unable to eject. This was the prize Stalin had ordered them to capture. They radioed the rest of their formation. Follow the damaged saber, but do not destroy it. Force it down intact. Garrett leveled off at 12,000 ft and scanned the horizon. The coastline was 30 mi away. His air speed was dropping. 240 knots, then 220, then 200. The engine was barely producing thrust. Black smoke trailed behind him for miles. A beacon for every MIG in North Korea. At 0635 hours, Shberto moved in for what he thought would be the finishing burst. He closed to within 300 ft and opened fire with his 23 mm cannons. Garrett broke right, shoved the throttle to the firewall, and somehow coaxed one last surge of power from his dying engine. Shbererstov’s rounds missed by 20 ft, but the maneuver cost Garrett another 2,000 ft of alтιтude and precious air speed. He leveled off at 8,000 ft, now moving at barely 160 knots, stall speed for an F86. The coast was 10 mi away. Garrett had perhaps 60 seconds of engine power left. And that’s when his entire squadron showed up. Captain Robert H. Bob Love, Garrett squadron leader, saw the smoke trail from 40 mi away. He immediately recognized what was happening. One of his pilots was going down. Nan the MiGs were swarming. Love had been explicitly ordered not to engage large enemy formations without numerical superiority. The flight commander had been explicit. You are not to play hero. If you’re outnumbered, disengage and return to base. Love checked his fuel gauge. He had 18 minutes before he’d need to head back to Kimo. Around him, the 15 other F86 in his formation were spread across a 10m front against 18 MiGs, most of them flown by Soviet aces. The smart move was to call for reinforcements and wait. Bob Love was not interested in smart moves. He keyed his radio. This is Dakota lead. All flights converge on smoke trail heading 270. We’re going in. His wingman, Lieutenant Harold Fiser, responded immediately. Lead. We’re outnumbered 3 to2. Love. Copy that. B. I can count. Now shut up and follow me. 50 mi south at the fourth fighter interceptor wing operation center, the radio chatter came through loud and clear. Colonel Benjamin S. Preston, the wing commander, stood next to the radio operator and listened to his pilots preparing to violate direct orders. He turned to his operations officer. Get them on the radio. Order Love to disengage. The operations officer reached for the microphone. Preston stopped him. Preston had flown P-51 Mustangs over Germany in World War II. He had seen what happened when commanders prioritized caution over aggression. He had watched good pilots die because they followed orders instead of instinct. And he knew Bob Love. Love was aggressive, borderline reckless, and exactly the kind of pilot you wanted leading a rescue mission. That Preston said, “Let him work.” The operations officer stared at him. Sir, if they engage that formation and take losses, then we’ll write letters to their families, and you’ll explain to Fifth Air Force why we abandoned one of our own. Now sit down and shut up.” The room erupted. The operations officer threw his headset onto the desk. The intelligence officer started shouting about rules of engagement. Someone threatened to call General Otto Wayland, the Far East Air Force commander, directly. Preston waited for the noise to die down. Then he spoke quietly. Bill Garrett has been in the air for 63 minutes. He has maybe 2 minutes of engine time left, and his ejection seat is broken. If we don’t get him out, the Soviets will have an intact F86 and a live American pilot to interrogate by dinner time. Now you can write that memo to General Wayland or you can watch what happens when our boys do what we trained them to do. He turned back to the radio. Dakota lead, this is Preston. You are cleared to engage. Bring our boy home. 15 F86 Sabers came in from the east at 450 mph, split into three flights, and hit the Soviet formation like a freight train. Love took the first MIG at a 90° deflection sH๏τ, nearly impossible except his A/AppG30 radar gun site calculated the lead perfectly. He fired a 4-se secondond burst. The MIG exploded in midair. Love didn’t even watch it fall. He was already rolling into the next target. The sky turned into chaos. 18 MiGs versus 16 sabers. is spread across 50 cubic miles of airspace. Aircraft pᴀssing each other at a closing speed of over 900 mph. Gun camera footage from that battle shows tracers crisscrossing the sky like fireworks. Aircraft pulling 8G turns, MiGs trailing smoke, sabers with holes in their wings, still fighting. Garrett at 4,000 ft and barely airborne. watched the dog fight unfold above him. His radio was filled with voices calling out targets, break warnings, and kill confirmations. He recognized Love’s voice. Two Migs, your 6:00, break left now. The radio went silent. Garrett’s heart stopped, then 10 seconds later, scratch one mig. Love, you owe me a beer. Garrett focused on the only thing he could control, keeping his dying saber in the air. The coastline was two miles away. His air speed was down to 145 knots. The stick felt like mush in his hands. Every control input produced a delayed, uncertain response. At 0641 hours, the J47 engine quit completely. Garrett was gliding at 3,000 ft toward a narrow strip of mud flats along the Yellow Sea coast. Before we see what happens when Garrett tries to land a jet fighter with no engine and no ejection seat, if you’re gripping your seat right now, that’s exactly what this channel is about. Real stories, real heroes, decisions made in seconds that changed history. Hit that subscribe ʙuттon and turn on notifications because next week we’re covering the B17 pilot who landed his bomber with no hydraulics, no landing gear, and half his crew ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. You won’t want to miss it. Now, the back to Garrett’s landing. A gliding F86 Saber is a 23,000lb brick with wings. Without engine power, Garrett had no hydraulics, which meant his flight controls were operating on mechanical backups. Stiff, unresponsive, and prone to sudden failures. His speed was bleeding off. 130 knots, 120, 110. Below 100 knots, the Saber would stall, flip inverted, and augur into the ground. He picked his spot, a tidal flat along the coast, maybe 500 yd wide, partially covered in water. It wasn’t a runway. It was barely flat, but it was his only option. At 800 ft, Garrett lowered his landing gear manually using the emergency blowdown system. Three green lights. At least something worked. He configured for landing. Full flaps speed breaks out. the nose high to bleed off speed. The mud flat rushed up at him. At 100 ft, he realized he was coming in too fast. He’d overshoot the flat section and slam into the levey on the far side. He had one option. Touch down early in the water and pray the tires didn’t catch the bottom and flip him. Garrett chopped his speed to 90 knots, 5 knots below stall speed, and held the nose high. The Saber shuddered. The stall warning horn screamed. He waited one more second, then shoved the nose down. The F86 hit the water at 87 knots. The impact was unimaginable. Garrett’s head snapped forward into the gunsite. His harness cut into his shoulders. Water exploded over the canopy. The aircraft skipped like a thrown stone, bounced twice, and then slammed onto the mudflat with enough force to collapse the nose gear. The saber slewed sideways, tearing off the right main gear and ground to a halt in a spray of mud and saltwater. Garrett sat in the cockpit, blood running from his nose, and tried to remember how to breathe. He was alive. Impossibly, he was alive. Then he looked up and saw the MiGs above Garrett’s wrecked saber. The air battle was still raging, but Captain Constantine Sherstov had broken off from the dogfight and was circling Garrett’s position, radioing coordinates back to Soviet headquarters. This was it. This was what Stalin had ordered. An intact F86 sitting in the mud, pilot still inside. Shabbertov’s radio call brought immediate response. Soviet search teams scrambled from bases across the Yalu. 500 Chinese laborers were requisitioned. Trucks were dispatched. The McCoyon Design Bureau engineers were already on route. But Chevto wasn’t thinking about salvage operations. He was thinking about finishing the job. His orders had been to disable the saber, not destroy it. But the American pilot was still moving. If the pilot escaped, the entire operation was wasted. Shaverto rolled inverted and dove toward the mudflat, guns armed. And then an SA16 Albatross amphibian rescue aircraft call sign Dumbo 17 came in low and fast over the water. The SA16 pilot, Captain Richard Nardella, had been monitoring the radio traffic and had positioned his aircraft three miles offshore, waiting for the call. The moment Garrett hit the mud, Nardella pushed his throttles to maximum power and headed for shore. See, the SA16 was a twin engine amphibian, a flying boat designed to land on water and pluck downed pilots from the sea. It was not designed for combat. It had no armor, no defensive guns, and a top speed of 235 mph. Flying it into Mig Alley was borderline suicidal. Nardella didn’t care. He had one job. Get the pilot out. The albatross touched down in the shallow water 50 yard from Garrett’s saber. The crew chief kicked open the side hatch and waved frantically. Garrett, dazed and bleeding, popped his canopy unstrapped and stumbled out onto the wing. He slid off into kneedeep water and started running. Above them, Shberto was diving, guns firing, tracers sтιтched the water 10 ft from Garrett. He dove, crawled the last 20 yards, and was hauled bodily into the albatross by the crew chief. The hatch slammed shut. Nardella shoved the throttles to full power. The SA16 lifted off with Shbertov’s cannon rounds, punching holes through its tail section. What happened next became one of the most intense air battles of the Korean War. American pilots were determined to destroy Garrett’s F86 before the Soviets could recover it. Soviet pilots were equally determined to protect it. For three hours, F86 Sabers and MiG 15s fought over a wrecked airplane sitting in the mud. The Americans tried everything. They strafed the wreck with 050 caliber fire. They called in F84 Thunderjets to drop bombs. They requested napalm strikes from ground attack squadrons. Every attempt was met by MiGs diving in from alтιтude, forcing the American aircraft to break off or engage. The final tally, seven MiG 15s sH๏τ down. Two F86s damaged, one critically. A zero American losses. The Soviet formation outnumbered and low on fuel finally disengaged at 0930 hours. By then it was too late. The incoming tide had covered Garrett’s Saber. Soviet recovery teams arrived that afternoon, recruited 500 Chinese laborers, and spent 2 days hauling the wreckage from the mud. The F86 serial number 49-1319 was dismantled, loaded onto trucks, and transported to Moscow. At the Soviet Flight Research Insтιтute in Zukovski, engineers spent six months tearing Garrett’s saber apart. They cataloged every system, pH๏τographed every component, and reverse engineered the A/AppG30 radar gun site. What they discovered changed Soviet fighter design forever. Senior Lieutenant Vadim Matskovich, a young Soviet engineer, I wrote a scathing report. The F86 gun site was vastly superior to anything in the Soviet inventory. His report earned him 30 denunciations from senior engineers who didn’t want to admit Soviet fighters were inferior. Matskovich faced potential exile to Siberia. Instead, he designed a countermeasure, a radar warning receiver that detected the F86’s gun sight signal and alerted the pilot he was being tracked. The device mounted on the tail of MiG 15s gave pilots four to 5 miles of warning before an F86 could get into firing range. In May 1952, Matskovich took 10 of his warning devices to Korea and installed them on frontline Mig 15s. Pilots initially distrusted the system. Then a regimental commander flying over the Yalu River heard a faint tone in his headset. He looked behind him. nothing. The tone grew louder. He He looked again, still nothing. Frustrated, he shut the device off. One minute later, feeling uneasy, he turned it back on. The tone was howling. He looked back and saw two F86s closing to gun range, about to open fire. He broke hard, escaped with minor wing damage, and landed, proclaiming the device had saved his life. From that point forward, Soviet MIG 15 losses dropped measurably. Between May 1952 and the armistice in July 1953, Soviet records show F86 kill rates against MiG 15s dropped from approximately 4:1 to less than 2 to one. American pilots reported increased difficulty getting firing solutions. Gun camera footage showed MiGs breaking before the F86 could achieve radar lock. The A/AppG30 Advantage, which had defined the air war over Korea, was partially neutralized. All because Bill Garrett’s ejection seat failed, they forcing him to bring his F86 down intact. The technology stolen from Garrett’s F86 ended up on every Soviet fighter for the next 40 years. MiG 9, MiG 20s, even modern Succoys still use derivatives of that radar warning system. One broken ejection seat changed the Cold War arms race. If you want more stories like this, where one malfunction, one decision, one moment changes everything, this channel has hundreds of them. Hit subscribe, smash that like ʙuттon, and drop a comment telling us which aircraft or battle you want us to cover next. Now, let’s talk about what happened after the war. Bill Garrett returned to the United States in 1952. Promoted to first lieutenant, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and promptly told to never speak publicly about his mission. The incident was classified top secret. Now, the Air Force didn’t want the Soviets to know how much the US knew about Soviet pilot involvement in Korea. Garrett’s family didn’t learn the full story until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed and Russian pilots began publishing their memoirs. Garrett himself rarely discussed it. In a 1998 interview, he said simply, “I did my job. I got sH๏τ down. The rescue guys got me out. That’s what happened. He never once mentioned that his broken ejection seat led to one of the most intense air battles of the Korean War or that his aircraft’s capture resulted in technological advances that shaped Soviet fighter design for decades. In 2001, at an air warfare symposium in Moscow, a retired Lieutenant General Stan McCoy, the Soviet test pilot who had flown Garrett’s captured F86 in testing, met American F86 pilots for the first time. The Americans asked him, “Was the MiG 15 really superior to the Saber?” McCoy smiled. The MiG could climb faster and fight at higher alтιтude, but you had the better gun sight, the better radar, and much better training. We learned more from your aircraft than you probably learned from ours. An American pilot responded, “So if we’d had worse technology, would you have won?” McCoyen thought for a moment, “No, you would have found another advantage. That’s what made you dangerous.” Between 1949 and 1956, North American Aviation produced 9,860 F86 Sabers. They served with air forces in 32 countries. The last operational F86s retired in 1994 when the Bolivian Air Force finally replaced them with modern fighters. That’s a 45 year service life. Extraordinary for any aircraft. The radar warning receiver technology developed by the Soviets became standard on every military aircraft worldwide. Modern systems use digital processing and threat libraries, but the fundamental concept detect enemy radar alert the pilot remains unchanged from Matskovich’s 1952 design. In 1987, Vadim Matskovich, the Soviet engineer who had designed the radar warning system, received a letter from an American F86 pilot. The letter read, “I flew 73 missions over Korea. I was sH๏τ down twice. Both times I watched MiGs break off their attack at the last second like they knew I was there. I thought it was luck.” Uh, then I read your article in Aviation Week about the warning system you developed from our radar. You saved my life and I never knew it. Thank you. Matskovich framed the letter and hung it in his office. Bill Garrett’s story is not about heroism in the traditional sense. He didn’t shoot down 12 enemy aircraft or win a dog fight against impossible odds. He simply did what thousands of other pilots did. took off on a routine mission, got sH๏τ to pieces, and survived by making the only decision available. But that decision to bring his broken aircraft down intact instead of staying over land and being captured changed the technological trajectory of the Cold War. It forced the Soviets to innovate. It revealed the limitations of radar gun sites. It sparked an arms race in avionics that continues today. Sometimes the most important battles aren’t won by heroes. They’re won by farm boys from Arkansas who refuse to quit even when their ejection seat is broken and the engine is on fire. Garrett died in 2003 age 75 in Little Rock, Arkansas. His obituary mentioned his Air Force service in a single sentence. It did not mention Mig Alley. It did not mention the F86. It did not mention that his crashed airplane changed the course of military aviation, but the engineers in Moscow remembered and that in the end is enough.

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