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From: wb9omc@ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
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Subject: early Jet kills
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From: wb9omc@ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)


I went home last night and looked at three different references that I
have on what was the first all jet kill in history.  Here is what I have:

"MiG Alley - Air to Air Combat Over Korea" by Larry Davis

"In history's first all-jet air battle, one of the MiGs tried to dive
away from Lt. Russell Brown's much heavier F-80.  Brown closed on the
MiG and poured a steady stream of .50 calibre bullets into him.  The
MiG flipped over and fell out of the sky.  It was the first of an
eventual 827 MiGs to go down in Korea."

"Fighting Jets" of the Time/Life Epic of Flight Series

"Lieutenant Russell Brown nosed down in pursuit; in a descent the F-80,
being heavier than the MiG, had a slight speed advantage.  Brown
narrowed the distance, squeezed the trigger on his control stick and
sent a five second burst of .50 caliber fire into the enemy plane."
"The world's first encounter between jet fighters had lasted perhaps 30
seconds, and it had ended in an American victory."

"Shooting Star, T-Bird & Starfire - A Famous Lockheed Family" by Rhodes
Arnold, Lt. Col., USAF, Retired

"...the first victory being that of Lt. Russell Brown on 8 November
1950.  This encounter marked the first aerial victory of a US jet over
a Russian built jet fighter, another first for a Lockheed aircraft."

Well, it's possible all three references could be wrong - but not likely.

Duane