The other i think was a dogfight in which (i think) an Iraqi Mirage F-1 engaged an EF-111 Raven.  The raven dived down to the deck and burn and turned to try and evade the Iraqi.  The manuvering dogfight ended with the Mirage crashing into the deck.  I think that was the first and only time an unarmed aircraft won a dogfight.

Joe 

Hands down the F-82 "Betty Jo" was the longest range flying non-stop from Honolulu-New York. But as far as the prototype not flying I have no idea, as I can't fnd anything about it and knowthat North American usually didn't have that problem, so I am assuming my answer is wrong.

simpilot34 wrote:

Hands down the F-82 "Betty Jo" was the longest range flying non-stop from Honolulu-New York. But as far as the prototype not flying I have no idea, as I can't fnd anything about it and knowthat North American usually didn't have that problem, so I am assuming my answer is wrong.

No, you got it.  The Twin Mustang could fly for over 1,500 miles on internal fuel, but it could carry 4 110-gallon drop tanks at once, which gave the fighter an amazing range of 3,445 miles.  That must have made for some very sore pilots....

The problem with the prototype was that the props spun so that in the center they were on the up-swing, and the resulting prop wash cancelled out the lift from the center section of the wing.  So, the plane simply wouldnt come off the runway.  It took them about a month to realize what had happened, and once they swapped engines and props the plane flew without incident.

simpilot34 wrote:

Will go for an easy one off th etop of my head. What was the sole aircraft that the whole design concept of the Mig-25 designed to combat?

not sure if I agree with this one....especially since the original MiG-25 prototype was not a fighter at all, but a recon aircraft designed to compete with the Lockheed A-12.  Also, the Russian AF set forth the need for the MiG-25 in 1960-1961, but the USAF in 1959 had already announced that the XB-70 was going to be a prototype only, and at the same time announced that most of the planned subsystems for the B-70 program would be scrapped and discontinued.  At that point, it would have been known that there was no real direct threat from the XB-70 project.  In fact, the original Soviet need for a new interceptor came from the fact that our U-2's were only opposed by SAMs as their existing fighters couldnt fly high enough--and that was from the late 50's, before the XB-70 was even being built.

LOL knew it wouldn't take long!

Floor is yours Borg!