MiG Alley's King: The F-86 Sabre Story Featuring Eric 'Winkle' Brown

[Dronescapes]

View: https://youtu.be/vNl9xAW8-iU

 

[SaparotRob]

Around the thirty six minute mark, the narrator says a North Korean pilot accepted the $100,000 offer for a MiG 15. The pilot in question, stationed in China, never knew of the existence of the offer. It was more..."screw communism. I'm outta' here."

 

[Gnomey]

Nice one!

 

[nuuumannn]

Around the thirty six minute mark, the narrator says a North Korean pilot accepted the $100,000 offer for a MiG 15. The pilot in question, stationed in China, never knew of the existence of the offer. It was more..."screw communism. I'm outta' here."

He most certainly wasn't the last to do so, either. A DPRK Shenyang J-6 on display at the Korean War Memorial in Seoul, whose pilot defected to a Republic of Korea air force base in the 1980s.

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[GreenKnight121]

Viktor Belenko, MiG-25, 1976
Belenko had brought with him the pilot's manual for the MiG-25 since he expected to assist US pilots in evaluating and testing the aircraft.

 

[special ed]

Viktor Belenko, MiG-25, 1976
Belenko had brought with him the pilot's manual for the MiG-25 since he expected to assist US pilots in evaluating and testing the aircraft.

Belenko's book is very enlightning about the fighter pilot's life in the USSR. Driving tractors during the harvest season, only enough jet fuel for the training mission and saving fuel for several months to make the breakout to Japan. He learned of the "low fuel warning" woman's voice in his ears as he neared Japan, that they were never told of.