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

Its June 1951 and UN pilots are facing the best opponents of the whole Korean War. Soviet 303rd and 324th Fighter Divisions ...

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 ...

Designated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as Fresco, the MiG-17 once represented a major threat to American aerial tactics. Back in the late 1940’s, Soviet engineers first ...