Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19

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Oct 26, 2026

Fighter Pilot Podcast

FPP229 - The Red Eagles

Oct 26 · 1 Mention

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Rob ZettelGUEST

32:11

So he was part of the aggressor training back at schoolhouse.

Rob ZettelGUEST

32:15

And now as he went through polar threats, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-17, MiG-19, back in the day, North Korea still had some of those.

Rob ZettelGUEST

32:23

Big 23.

Rob ZettelGUEST

32:24

And you knew the threat.

Fighter Pilot Podcast

FPP227 - Dogfighting Goes Digital

Oct 12 · 1 Mention

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Tim MillerGUEST

48:13

We had the script written out of what the interview looked like, and we obviously had the video of Hands to reference as well.

Tim MillerGUEST

48:20

The filmmaker then recruits a crew of pilots to fly either a MiG-19 two ship or the F-4 two ship, a number of them.

Tim MillerGUEST

48:32

There's a choreography session, probably some practice to get them to fly this exactly accurately correct per the notes and, uh, you know, what the history books tell us.

Tim MillerGUEST

48:44

And Then the filmmaker, when he gets the perfect take or execution out of the recreation, he'll go back and play with the camera angles.

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How Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 Broke the Sound Barrier: The Flight That Shattered Soviet Doubt and Changed Aviation Forever

Oct 3 · 1 Mention

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60:37

By 1955, Soviet aircraft designers had succeeded in developing their own supersonic fighters, but they were still several years behind American achievements.

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60:47

The MiG-19, the Soviet Union's first production supersonic fighter, did not enter service until 1955, eight years after Yeager's flight.

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60:58

The Soviet response to this technological gap was characteristically ambitious, a massive investment in space technology that would eventually produce Sputnik, Laika, and Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight.

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61:12

Soviet leaders reasoned that if they could not match American achievements in atmospheric flight, they would leapfrog ahead into the ultimate frontier of space itself.

Unknown podcast

How the F-4 Phantom II Redefined Air Combat: From Soviet Skepticism to Global Supremacy

Oct 3 · 1 Mention

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26:57

If the Americans had solved the multi-role fighter problem, then the Soviet Union's inventory of specialized aircraft might become obsolete overnight.

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27:07

The MiG-21 interceptor, the Su-7 fighter-bomber, the MiG-19 dogfighter, each representing years of development and billions of rubles, might all be superseded by a single American design that could perform all their missions more effectively.

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27:23

As 1962 drew to a close, the F-four Phantom was no longer an experimental curiosity or a technological gamble.

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27:32

It had become the new standard by which all other fighters would be measured, a benchmark that forced aviation engineers around the world to reconsider their understanding of what aircraft could achieve.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19

Oct 26, 2026

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