The Planes of Fame's F-86 and Mig-15 performance during the 2012 Jacqueline Cochran airshow at Thermal Ca. Planes of Fame Pilots: F-86F Steve Hinton Mig-15 Chris Fahey Planes of Fame www.planesoffame.org Where Warbirds Fly
lovelyplanes!...great flying!...last saw this sort of display at Duxford (uk) during a flying weekend, really special to hear those jet engines, cheers!
Just two amazing airplanes. North American Aviation consistently pumped out just cadillacs of the sky. And that Mig-15 remained the world's tightest turning fighter until the F-15 came along.
those markings are used to help the pilots establish the angles of attack for using bombs and rockets; they were devised later during the Korean War, and many pilots felt that there'd be a MiG hiding behind every line :)
Cool video!! Nice to see some warbirds from more recent conflicts such as Korea and Vietnam. One question, what are the number markings for on the inside of the F86's canopy?
They did say that during the Korean conflict the only way the American pilots knew which were friendly and which were not is the Sabre smoked like a bastard and the Migs didn't. That's what the Russians had going for them, they reversed engineered British Nene jet engines and were clean burners. Nobody wanted to deal with the Russians until Britain had a Labour Govt. They sold the Russians six engines, the rest of the world couldn't believe it. The Russians laughed at the pathetic attempt by the Labour leader at the time. They couldn't believe their luck.
