The MiG was tested to find out how it performed in comparison with the U.S. frontline fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre, which in the film joins up with Yeager for part of the flight.

There are only a handful of jets flying today that can supercruise -- that is, achieve supersonic speeds without using their ...

Space Coast resident and former NASA Astronaut Buzz Aldrin endorsed Donald J. Trump for President of the United States and ...

Todd was then transferred to Chatham, N.B., where he trained on the venerable Canadair Sabre (the Canadian version ... SAM 2 or 3 anti-aircraft missiles, Mig 17, 19 or 21 fighters, or the very ...

The P-51D would go on to serve admirably in the Korean War in spite of being rendered obsolescent by the Jet Age, specifically the MiG-15 fighters flown by the enemy and the F-86 Sabre that became ...

Part of the Collings Foundation collection, the only airworthy F-100 Super Sabre in North America —and possibly in ... John and Shane McGillis, MiG-15 and ME-262 by Rick Sharpe, the National Museum of ...

However, by 1952 the Soviet military leadership was reluctant to deploy the newer MiG-17s to Korea. When the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed in 1953, the U.S. acknowledged 139 air-to-air losses, ...

He was piloting an escort mission over Vietnam when his team was attacked two enemy MiG-21 fighter jets ... including the ...