Comments on: Korea, War of Aerial Transition http://www.acmp.com/blog/korea-war-of-aerial-transition.html all about aviation! Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim http://www.acmp.com/blog/korea-war-of-aerial-transition.html/comment-page-1#comment-28482 Jim Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:19:28 +0000 http://acmp.com/blog/?p=784#comment-28482 Nice article, but a lot of factual errors; The USAF in their P51, F80 and F82s ate the North Koreans alive in their Yaks and IL2 prop aircraft in the beginning of the war. The Russians brought the Mig-15's in after that (including Russian pilots) and the USAF responded IMMEDIATELY with the F-86A. While comparable, the A model Sabre had significant performance issues (climb rate / ceiling) versus the Mig 15 which were not addressed until the later versions. The Mig-15 was derived from the purchase of a British Rolls-Royce Nene engine; thank a British Labor government for that one. Russian engineers visited the factory with special shoes that collected the metal shavings in the soles and allowed them to copy the metal so that when the engine was delivered they could produce their own version quickly. The Mig-15 could not turn inside our straight wing planes, don't know where you got that. The wing loading is higher on the Mig than on any US prop or straight wing jet. The first Mig-15 kills was by an F-80 of a Mig pilot who tried to outdive him. There was never a Turkey shoot of US pilots in Korea, except perhaps for B-29's who couldn't operate effectively at altitude in formation during daylight when intercepted by Mig-15s over the North. Also, for your information prop A-1 Skyraiders were used through out the Vietnam war with jets. Many prop aircraft served in Vietnam, including Navy Neptunes and AWACS versions of the Constellation. C-47 became gunships AC-47, etc,,, Take care, Jim K. Nice article, but a lot of factual errors;

The USAF in their P51, F80 and F82s ate the North Koreans alive in their Yaks and IL2 prop aircraft in the beginning of the war.

The Russians brought the Mig-15′s in after that (including Russian pilots) and the USAF responded IMMEDIATELY with the F-86A.

While comparable, the A model Sabre had significant performance issues (climb rate / ceiling) versus the Mig 15 which were not addressed until the later versions.

The Mig-15 was derived from the purchase of a British Rolls-Royce Nene engine; thank a British Labor government for that one. Russian engineers visited the factory with special shoes that collected the metal shavings in the soles and allowed them to copy the metal so that when the engine was delivered they could produce their own version quickly.

The Mig-15 could not turn inside our straight wing planes, don’t know where you got that. The wing loading is higher on the Mig than on any US prop or straight wing jet. The first Mig-15 kills was by an F-80 of a Mig pilot who tried to outdive him.

There was never a Turkey shoot of US pilots in Korea, except perhaps for B-29′s who couldn’t operate effectively at altitude in formation during daylight when intercepted by Mig-15s over the North.

Also, for your information prop A-1 Skyraiders were used through out the Vietnam war with jets. Many prop aircraft served in Vietnam, including Navy Neptunes and AWACS versions of the Constellation. C-47 became gunships AC-47, etc,,,

Take care,
Jim K.

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