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

The Korean conflict was less than six months old on the morning of November 30, 1950, when a U.S. Air Force B-29 Superfortress, attacking an air base in North Korea, was lightly damaged by a fighter ...

Coming out of WWII, America’s Air Force was the undisputed champ of the skies. That all changed during the Korean War when Soviet forces unveiled the MiG-15, a sprightly swept-wing interceptor that ...