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The kill scored by Commander Emory Brown against a North Vietnamese MiG-21
A ghost in the archive: Solving a 54-year-old air combat mystery
A 54-Year-Old Mystery: Potentially Solved
It is not often that an aviation mystery survives half...
VF-111 Sundowners became the first fighter unit to claim MiG kills with two different types of aircraft
This victory was claimed three-and-a-heft years after ‘Sundowner’ Lt. Tony Nargi had bagged a MiG-21 in an F-8C on Sep. 19, 1968
On the afternoon...
Soviet pilot explains why captured F-5 beat MiG-21 and MiG-23
‘Every flight ended with the same result: MiG-21 lost, although he had a much higher thrust-to-weight ratio,’ Vladimir Kondaurov, a Soviet pilot who tested...
Why the MiG-21 Fishbed was never able to shoot down the U-2
Unsurprisingly, at least one US U-2 pilot underway over Cuba in the late 1960s experienced a rude shock when a MiG-21 actually shot over...
The F-104 wasn’t the only “Widow Maker.” The MiG-19, MiG-21 and F-100 had high accident rates too
The F-104 was not the only fighter aircraft to have a high accident rate during the Cold War.
The first sleek, futuristic F-104 Starfighter...