Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom Collins put the MiG-15 through its paces, technicians inspected it for signs of sabotage and determined it was safe. The MiG was ...

One respect in which the F-86 was undeniably superior to the MiG-15 was in top speed; the MiG maxed out at Mach 0.92 whereas the F-86 could be safely operated at speeds above Mach 1. After the war ...