F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15

Author: Douglas C. Dildy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780963211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN. Reluctantly, Josef Stalin agreed to provide the requisite air cover, introducing the superior swept-wing MiG-15 to counter the American's straight-wing F-80 jets. This in turn prompted the USAF to deploy its very best – the F-86A Sabre – to counter this threat. Thus began a two-and-a-half-year struggle in the skies known as “MiG Alley.” In this period, the unrelenting campaign for aerial superiority witnessed the introduction of successive models of these two revolutionary jets into combat. This meticulously researched study not only provides technical descriptions of the two types and their improved variants, complete with a “fighter pilot's assessment” of these aircraft, but also chronicles the entire scope of their aerial duel in “MiG Alley” by employing the recollections of the surviving combatants – including Russian, Chinese, and North Korean pilots – who participated.

F-86 Sabre

Author: Robert F. Dorr
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9780879387488
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
The design, development and combat record of the F-86 Sabre and naval FJ-series fighters.

F-86 Sabre in Action

Author: Larry Davis
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications
ISBN: 9780897470322
Category :
Languages : da
Pages : 50

Book Description

F-86 Sabre Aces of the 4th Fighter Wing

Author: Warren Thompson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472802128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
The entry of the United State's premier jet interceptor into the Korean War was triggered by the ever-increasing presence of the Soviet-built MiG-15 south of the Yalu River. The possibility of the USAF losing air supremacy over the Korean Peninsula was unacceptable. The 4th Fighter Wing got the call for combat in Korea. They were made up of a combination of new pilots right out of jet training and the older combat veterans of World War II vintage. This combination of pilot types wrote and re-wrote the text books on jet warfare. Of the 40 jet aces that the war produced, the 4th Wing boasted 24 of them. This book details these incredible pilots and the planes they flew.

F-86 Sabre Aces of the 51st Fighter Wing

Author: Warren Thompson
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781841769950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
The 51st Fighter Wing initially flew the F-80C in the Korean War, but in 1951, the 51st brought in high-scoring World War 2 ace Colonel Francis Gabreski to assume command when it converted from the F-80 over to the newly arrived F-86E. His recruits included his elite 4th Wing pilots, and by the end of the war, the 51st had two pilots who achieved the status of "Double Ace" as well as the highest scoring ace of the war, Joe McConnell. This book describes the 51st Wing's tenure with the Sabre that led to their high scoring sprees of 1953.

North American F-86 Sabre Owners' Workshop Manual

Author: Mark Linney
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 9780760342923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The North American F-86 Sabre was the first operational Allied swept-wing transonic jet fighter of the postwar era. It was flown with distinction by the USAF in the Korean War where it was pitted against the Soviet MiG-15. The centerpiece of this Haynes Manual is Golden Apple Operations’ F-86A, 48-178, the sole-surviving airworthy example of the first production Sabre A model, as well as the world’s oldest flying jet-powered aircraft.

Sabres Over MiG Alley

Author: Kenneth P. Werrell
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
China. Annotation 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

F-100 Super Sabre in Action

Author: Larry Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897474597
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
Beskriver udviklingen af det amerikanske jagerbombefly, F-100 Super Sabre.

Korean War Aces

Author: Robert F Dorr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472800567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
The first virtually all-jet war, the conflict in Korea saw F-86 Sabres of the USAF take on MiG-15s of the North Korean and Chinese air forces. Although the Allied pilots were initially taken aback by the ability of the communist fighter in combat, sound training and skilful leadership soon enabled Sabre pilots to dominate the dogfights over the Yalu River. In all 39 F-86 pilots achieved ace status, and a number of these are profiled in this volume, as are notable pilots from the US Navy, Marine Corps and Royal Navy and, for the first time, the handful of MiG-15 aces.

MiG Alley

Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472836065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened. Packed with first-hand accounts and covering the full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, MiG Alley brings the war vividly to life and the record is finally set straight on a number of popular fabrications. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver expertly threads together US and Russian sources to reveal the complete story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies.