Message posted by lone wolf on November 17, 2006 at 12:54:37 PST:
Details of secret MiG squadron unfold By Bruce Rolfsen Imagine having to fly and maintain Soviet MiG fighters without tech data That was the challenge airmen assigned to the 4477th Test and Evaluation This week, the Air Force began allowing former 4477th squadron members The squadron was based at an airfield in the midst of southern Nevada’s About 220 airmen and 25 MiGs were assigned to the squadron. Most of the The squadron’s main mission was to fly against units deployed to Nellis The MiG pilots would fly as many as three sorties a day with most When the MiG pilots and maintainers went home to their families in the Even when two pilots died flying MiGs, the Air Force couldn’t disclose
Staff writer
and spare parts.
Squadron faced for 12 years when the unit’s secret assignment was to fly
about two dozen MiG fighters.
to talk about their experiences. Air Force Times interviewed three
members for a story appearing in the Nov. 27 edition of the paper, on
newsstands Monday.
isolated Tonopah Test Range, the airmen said.
airmen were either senior non-commissioned officers or veteran pilots
who had flown as aggressors or weapons school instructors. There were
also Navy and Marine Corps pilots.
Air Force Base, Nev. The deployed pilots would spend two weeks learning
how MiG-17s, 21s and 23s flew and fought.
flights lasting less than an hour.
Las Vegas area, they couldn’t tell the families any details of the
assignment.
the details.
Please excuse
In Reply to: AF Declassifies Elite Aggressor Program posted by Manta on November 16, 2006 at 6:36:42 PST:
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