A short history of the MiG-15

In April 1953, the US Far East Command promised 100 thousand dollars to anyone who will fly from the North to the MiG-15 to the location of the UN forces. Wanting to get a round sum was not found until the Armistice Agreement of 27 July of the same year. However, on September 21, Senior Lieutenant KPAFAC Kum Sok but flew on Air Force base near the Kimpo Seula.Dengi paid him, and the plane was distilled to Okinawa, where he first experienced Captain Tom Collins, and then - Chuck Yeager (the same one who first World broke the sound barrier. Then, the MiG-15 was transferred to the base of Wright-Patterson in Ohio, where the test continued.
Since 1957, this aircraft is part of the exhibition of the National Museum USAF.

This and another 6 MiGs in the continuation of the theme.





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