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...Mean while that Mig is cruising rings around you, never losing energy and certainly their engines must be the most reliable ever since they can go and go....

Sounds to me like a good comperative performance between Mig-15 and F-86 :wink:

If I remember correctly from the reports I read (I think it was from the manual that comes with Mig Alley Ace - they had official NATO pilot reports & debriefings in the box). The Mig-15 could do everything better at high alt, down low they were pretty much the same (turn rate and turn radius should be very similair down low) with the Mig having a small top speed advantage (which increases with alt) and climb rate advantage throughout the envelope.

The reports also mentioned of F-86 pilots in Korea seeing the Migs fly at 40k+ and not being able to get up there to contest them.

The great advantage of the F-86 was in the roll rate and the rate of acceleration into the roll with its hydraulic boosted ailerons (like in the P-38L), the Mig did not have hydraulic boosted ailerons and they would stiffen very hard at high speed.

The reports I read emphasized that F-86 pilots should try and trick the migs into scissors fights where high roll rate of the F-86 could cause the Mig to overshoot.

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this is pretty consistent with what I've read, except for one detail. IIR, the Sabre was faster in level flight than the Mig.

Also, the Migs superiority was only over the F-86A. The E model was supposedly better in most flight regimes, IIRC