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Old March 25th 09, 11:46 AM posted to rec.aviation.military.naval
Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]
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Default British author claims Royal Navy started USN's Top Gun

Ms?e Weeks wrote:

When British pilots arrived at Miramar airbase in California in the
early 1960s the Americans were losing a large number of dogfights in
their multi-million Phantom fighters to the enemy's relatively "cheap"
MiG 21s.


Phantom vs. MiG 21 dogfights in the early 1960s? Where?