Miloch > wrote in
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Has a permanent place in
my "ugliest airplanes" folder.....

In article >, Mitchell Holman
says...
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>Miloch > wrote in
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> Has a permanent place in
>my "ugliest airplanes" folder.....
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Typical Soviet design...what they lack in graceful design and performance, they
make up in sheer numbers...almost 600 produced. However...Mig-15 was the game
changer....




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Miloch > wrote in
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> In article >, Mitchell
> Holman says...
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>>Miloch > wrote in
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>>> Attachment decoded: MiG-9-5.jpg
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>>> end
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>> Has a permanent place in
>>my "ugliest airplanes" folder.....
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> Typical Soviet design...what they lack in graceful design and
> performance, they make up in sheer numbers...almost 600 produced.
> However...Mig-15 was the game changer....


I remember the bounty the US offered to
any K Korean pilot who would defect in one.

And sure enough, one did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Moolah