funkraum
January 27th 04, 08:05 PM
Subject: MiG defector pilot to attend CJAA conference
Further to previous
Dr Kenneth Rowe, formerly Lt No Kum-Sok of the DPRK who defected from
North Korea in a MiG-15 in 1953 is to attend the Classic Jet Aircraft
Association (CJAA) annual convention being held at Elgin AFB on fourth
of February till the eighth of February. This will be the first time
Dr Rowe has flown in a MiG-15 since his defection.
CJAA:
http://www.classicjets.org/
Details of the MiG-15 in which he defected:
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap42no.htm
And the background to the operation to obtain a MiG-15:
http://www.psywarrior.com/Moolah.html
From:
Daytona Beach New-Journal
Pilot makes MiG return
By J. ROGER OSTERHOLM
Special to Neighbors
Last update: 26 January 2004
Ken Rowe, a South Daytona resident and famed Korean War MiG-15 fighter
pilot, will fly again in a MiG. He will do so at the Classic Jet
Aircraft Association (CJAA) annual convention at Eglin Air Force Base,
near Pensacola, which will feature many seminars, aircraft displays
and demonstration flights. The invitation-only meeting will take place
from Feb. 4 to 8. Dave Sutton, owner of a MiG-15UTI, will take Ken
into the blue yon der in his trainer-type jet. "UTI" is Russian for
"trainer," a two-seat version of the famous fighter jet. Rowe is
scheduled to fly again in a MiG on Feb. 6. Sutton had hoped to take
Rowe aloft in December, but late delivery of an explosive cartridge
for the aircraft's ejection seat caused that memorial flight to be
postponed. Sutton is an instructor at the Naval Test Pilot School at
Patuxent, Md., and has flown the MiG-17 and MiG-21, as well as the
historic fighter. The conference will feature about 20 jet aircraft,
including the MiG-15, several Lockheed T-33 trainers, the Aero L-39
(Russian trainer), the Soko Galeb (Yugoslavian trainer), the L-29
(Czech), the Fouga Magister (French) and others. About 100 aviation
enthusiasts and pilots are expected to attend the conference.
Rowe will present the major address Saturday. Rowe, known as No
Kum-Sok in Korean, absconded on Sept. 21, 1953 -- soon
after the cease-fire on that distant peninsula -- with a super-secret
Russian-made jet fighter. While being submitted to a year of
interrogation by American agents, he also participated in American
flight tests of his aircraft, which, at that time, was a big mystery
to Americans.
The shocking performance of the MiG-15 at the end of 1950 was as
upsetting to Americans as the Japanese Zero in 1941 and the German
Me-262 jet fighter in 1944. The aircraft Rowe flew secretly and
courageously to the airbase near Seoul now stands at the Air Force
Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Rowe recorded his
life's story, with this reporter, in a book titled MiG-15 to Freedom,
published by McFarland and Co. in 1996. In addition to supplying the
West with the then-secret Russian fighter, Rowe also reveals in his
book that the noted "Manchurian Sanctuary" through the Korean War was
largely dropped in April 1952, although American officials remain
reluctant to admit it. J. Roger Osterholm is a professor emeritus at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a professor of online courses
in aviation literature and other literature subjects with The American
Military University.
Further to previous
Dr Kenneth Rowe, formerly Lt No Kum-Sok of the DPRK who defected from
North Korea in a MiG-15 in 1953 is to attend the Classic Jet Aircraft
Association (CJAA) annual convention being held at Elgin AFB on fourth
of February till the eighth of February. This will be the first time
Dr Rowe has flown in a MiG-15 since his defection.
CJAA:
http://www.classicjets.org/
Details of the MiG-15 in which he defected:
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap42no.htm
And the background to the operation to obtain a MiG-15:
http://www.psywarrior.com/Moolah.html
From:
Daytona Beach New-Journal
Pilot makes MiG return
By J. ROGER OSTERHOLM
Special to Neighbors
Last update: 26 January 2004
Ken Rowe, a South Daytona resident and famed Korean War MiG-15 fighter
pilot, will fly again in a MiG. He will do so at the Classic Jet
Aircraft Association (CJAA) annual convention at Eglin Air Force Base,
near Pensacola, which will feature many seminars, aircraft displays
and demonstration flights. The invitation-only meeting will take place
from Feb. 4 to 8. Dave Sutton, owner of a MiG-15UTI, will take Ken
into the blue yon der in his trainer-type jet. "UTI" is Russian for
"trainer," a two-seat version of the famous fighter jet. Rowe is
scheduled to fly again in a MiG on Feb. 6. Sutton had hoped to take
Rowe aloft in December, but late delivery of an explosive cartridge
for the aircraft's ejection seat caused that memorial flight to be
postponed. Sutton is an instructor at the Naval Test Pilot School at
Patuxent, Md., and has flown the MiG-17 and MiG-21, as well as the
historic fighter. The conference will feature about 20 jet aircraft,
including the MiG-15, several Lockheed T-33 trainers, the Aero L-39
(Russian trainer), the Soko Galeb (Yugoslavian trainer), the L-29
(Czech), the Fouga Magister (French) and others. About 100 aviation
enthusiasts and pilots are expected to attend the conference.
Rowe will present the major address Saturday. Rowe, known as No
Kum-Sok in Korean, absconded on Sept. 21, 1953 -- soon
after the cease-fire on that distant peninsula -- with a super-secret
Russian-made jet fighter. While being submitted to a year of
interrogation by American agents, he also participated in American
flight tests of his aircraft, which, at that time, was a big mystery
to Americans.
The shocking performance of the MiG-15 at the end of 1950 was as
upsetting to Americans as the Japanese Zero in 1941 and the German
Me-262 jet fighter in 1944. The aircraft Rowe flew secretly and
courageously to the airbase near Seoul now stands at the Air Force
Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Rowe recorded his
life's story, with this reporter, in a book titled MiG-15 to Freedom,
published by McFarland and Co. in 1996. In addition to supplying the
West with the then-secret Russian fighter, Rowe also reveals in his
book that the noted "Manchurian Sanctuary" through the Korean War was
largely dropped in April 1952, although American officials remain
reluctant to admit it. J. Roger Osterholm is a professor emeritus at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a professor of online courses
in aviation literature and other literature subjects with The American
Military University.