Dogfights: Supersonic -- Bruce Hinton

Clip from History Channel's great show Dogfights, from the Supersonic episode.

Bruce Hinton talks about his experience during a dogfight that was the first dogfight between F-86 Sabres & Mig-15s from the Korean War

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[LazicBrano]

F 16 Raptor, MiG 47...wtf? Are you possibly retarded?

[P51acepilot]

yeah... too bad that those planes don't even exist.......

[oleksiy22]

In end of 1953 these sabre were ENGAGED by lot of mig 15 ace or pilot

[TheLastCobalt]

@shuljup Where'd you learn math? it was 4 on 4, our pilots are trained to stick with their wingman. Looks like your soviet scumbag pilot choked on the pressure... and he was stomped out of the sky, just like all soviet pilots.

[pakurangaguy]

There were no north korean pilots, those pilots were Russians from the Soviet airforce,later some Chinese 'trainees' joined in! The Korean air war was a US vs Soviet airpower!

[packr72]

@fishb3d american pilots were better, out of all the countries in ww2 russia had the fewest aces and the hughest losses and these guys flying were ww2 aces

[packr72]

@EagleEyedRanger the f86 was faster and could break the sound barrier, the mig couldnt

[Alex1979Rus]

In the history of the U.S. Air Force this day entered as "Black Tuesday". Three days later american aviation did not appear in the area of the MiGs. Only a month later three B-29, covered by "Sabre", tried to make a raid in the daytime again. However, the MiGs shot down all three machines.

After this defeat, B-29 were used EXCEPTIONALLY during the night.

[Alex1979Rus]

They managed to escape because the B-29’s route ran only 20-30 km from the coastline. This was restricted area for MIGs. The Americans managed to bring down only one MiG-15.

[Alex1979Rus]

The pilots were ordered to destroy the bombers without engaging in battle with the cover as possible. MiGs attacked in pairs, through the system of american fighters, who were forced to peel off to the side to avoid collisions. As a result, according to the general Lobov, Soviet pilots shot down 12 B-29s and four F-84. In addition, many of the "Fortress" were damaged - almost everyone returning crew brought the dead and wounded.

[Alex1979Rus]

Two divisions (324 fighter regiment under the command of three times Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub and 303 fighter regiment under the command of Georgy Ageevich Lobov) . Another 12 MIGs remained on the ground as a reserve in case of an enemy breakthrough to the crossings and airports.

[Alex1979Rus]

All movies about F-86's victories, but no one didn't talk about "Black Tuesday".

October 30, 1951. 21 "Superfortress" (B-29) was directed to attack the airfield Namsi. They were accompanied by nearly 200 fighters of various types. This group was detected by the ground-based radar. 44 MiG-15 took off to intercept them.