Sabres over Korea reviewed at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum

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SABRE 003
Strike

I was lining up for another volley - 300 yards... 150 yards.... then whack whack whack ! Messages like "Aileron control cable damage" started scrolling up the display. Looking around the cockpit showed puffs of smoke from the fuselage. I could only coax 270 knots out of the bird and the controls were very sluggish.

Not good.

I should have headed home then and there - but, not thinking clearly, I elected to hang around. I thought I'd be safe trundling along at 200 feet altitude. A fighter pilot is always reluctant to point the nose at the ground - or so Fighter Combat - Tactics and Manoeuvering by Robert Shaw says.

Obviously the MiG drivers hadn't read from the same book as to my amazement one of them clipped me again - at 200 feet - and in an almost head on pass !

Still, my wallowing antics distracted the MiG's enough os that my wingmen finished them off in fairly short order. Still a bit befuddled I continued South along the planned route - albeit at a safer altitude. About 30 miles from base I came to my senses, turned on the ADF and headed directly home.

Maybe the cold air streaming in through the bullet holes in my canopy blew some sense into me as I elected to land in a slow arc from the seaward approach rather than the usual steep approach down the mountainside.

A satisfying outing !

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