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Gable's smile spread wider than a river in flood-until Carole Lombard was killed in an air crash during the early months of World War II. Soon afterward he en listed in the Army Air Forces, flew combat missions in B-17s out of Peterborough, England, functioning as both the head of an aerial film unit and as a turret gunner...
...Twelve used MIG-15 jets, the same fighters clobbered by U.S. F-86s in Korea, along with another eight or ten newer MIG-17s. Total air force strength: 150 to 200 planes...
Cruising along at 40,000 ft. over the Formosa Strait, eight Chinese Nationalist F-86 Sabre jets picked out the white contrails of nearly a score of Communist MIG-17s in the early morning sunlight. With a confidence born of repeated successes in aerial clashes with Red pilots and with more than 2,000 flight hours per man logged in Sabre jets (an operational experience that is the envy of U.S. Air Force pilots), the Chinese Nationalists jumped the MIGs...
...BATTLE: The Communists held back their big air force from Quemoy-Matsu, but flew out over the Formosa Strait. Result: bitter dogfights between Red MIG-17s and slower Nationalist F-86 Sabres. The MIGs have a capability of 60,000 ft. and 635 knots with afterburner. The Sabres have a top altitude of 48,000 ft. and speed of 600 knots. Yet the Nationalists routed the MIGs. The big difference lay in pilot quality: the Nationalist airmen were eager and carefully trained-their flying time in Sabres alone ranged from 300 to 1,400 hours. The Communists appeared inexperienced...
Defensive fighter planes-perhaps 90% of the U.S.S.R.'s air force-are another matter. Obsolescent U.S. F-86s armed with Sidewinders so far have been far superior to the MIG-17s, as Free China's pilots have proved (TIME, Oct. 6). Nobody yet knows how well the U.S.'s F-100 series might do against the newest Russian fighter, the MIG-21. Nor is there much fresh information about the new Soviet all-weather, delta-winged interceptor. The big Russian interceptor force is helped in its job by what may be the world's best...