On this day in aviation history, December 30, 1947, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 made its first flight. Codenamed the “Fagot” ...

The only sin the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-19 (NATO Codename: Fargo) ever committed was being built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Too close to the MiG-17 to stand out on its own and too close to ...

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VERO BEACH — By day, Tony Remudo flies Airbus A320s for American Airlines. During his downtime, he flies one of the iconic planes of the Soviet Union — the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. His silver-clad ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: So successful were MiG-17s — in the hands of both skilled Vietnamese pilots as well as allegedly some Russian pilots — that the United States acquired several MiG-17s ...

The Cold War set the stage for aerial combat between iconic jet-powered fighter aircraft. By the early 1950s, the world's superpowers' first generation of jet fighters were ready for battle. They just ...

The MiG-19 was designed to address issues that stemmed from the MiG-15 and similar MiG-17 fighters. While both fighters were capable when compared to their contemporaries, they suffered from ...

On that April ‘Black Thursday’ 70 years ago, the air war over Korea changed as the Allies scrambled to counter the superior MiG-15 jet fighter David Kindy - Correspondent The Soviet MiG-15, a ...