Little known Meteor type

[Weaver]

Be funny if you got a file back from the FSB....

[Rheged]

Be funny if you got a file back from the FSB....

Kit has such a long and distinguished whiffing history that you'll maybe  find that  the  Okhrana started the file on him!

[PR19_Kit]

Be funny if you got a file back from the FSB....

Kit has such a long and distinguished whiffing history that you'll maybe  find that  the  Okhrana started the file on him!

As I had to do a job in Novosibirsk once I'm SURE they have! 

[tahsin]

Finally! There exists a book and a footnote in it...

Two Greek authors about the aerial aspects of the August '64 clashes. They show great restraint and offer a balanced account. Parts of it involves a Greek F-86D detachment that singularly failed to intercept multiple radar contacts over a period of time. Except a single RAF Canberra. That's not as negative it sounds. The area seems to be devoid of radar coverage on both sides, incidentally encouraging Greeks/Greek Cypriots for a "military solution"... It is only a matter of luck of seeing something flying over a triangle between Crete, maybe Konya and Cyprus.

It is as an example of emptiness that footnote is mentioned. A 2009 book about the Cuban Crisis, in which unnamed American sources are cited about a MiG fighter that overflew the American Jupiter missiles in Izmir. And then crashed and film was recovered with pictures almost as good as those Americans would take in Cuba. Tom Cooper of these days would rather put a bullet in his brain than saying Russians can do anything good. So, he gets in as a ghost to stress no MiG would have the range to do that from Bulgaria or Yugoslavia... Except Wikipedia says the Yak-25 range is 2800 kilometers, people tend to divide max range into 3 for radius, Google says Izmir-Cairo is 2400 odd kilometers by car and maybe 1003 by air. So, it should barely do if the airfield was in the "Western Desert" of Egypt. It has been said in the past that Mandrake (the dedicated reconnaisance version) had penetrated NATO airspace without any mention of dates or location.

No, don't rush. Americans surely did not mention that RFK took out the pictures of the missile installations in Cuba in a meeting with Dobrynin from a folder and the Russian ambrassador took out pictures of the installation in Izmir from his suitcase. They do not claim to have shoot down the plane, they are claiming to have shut down a local spy ring of traitors with access to Turkish RF-84Fs in preparation for operations in the 2010s. That's why some guy phones up (apparently long before 2010s) to make sure it is an accident and not a case of some Russian in a drunken state of mind droning on with incoherent sentences in a bar. Doubtful if anyone told him Russians could ever do an U-2 on NATO anyhow.