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MiG defector pilot to attend CJAA conference
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. |
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funkraum wrote:
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), I know you are just quoting funkraum, but the L-39 Albatros is a Czech-built trainer - just like the L-29 Delfin. Both were operated by Russia - and Czechoslovakia - but they were made by Aero Vodochody :- http://www.aero.cz/ of Czechoslovakia (as was) . 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. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ Ken Duffey - Flanker Freak & Russian Aviation Enthusiast Flankers Website - http://www.flankers.co.uk/ Genuine E-mailers - Replace sukhoi with flanker ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ |
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