One of the latest of these restoration projects to have been completed is the museum's newly-acquired Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) series stands as one of the most iconic fighter jets in the world. These were popular among Soviet ...

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jim Akin carried an estimated 10,000 paratroopers as a pilot, and when he skydived at 99 years old ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 was one of the Soviet aircraft thrust into the theater. By the time the Vietnam War rolled around, the MiG-17 was practically an antique, which is possibly why the ...

After going through a suspension and then a restart, the prototype YF-105A finally took to the skies on October 22, 1955, ...

The Russian Air Force suffers from a lack of pilots (as do most air forces), and Russia may have asked North Korea for ...

As a general officer during the Vietnam War, Olds continued to gain a reputation for defying conventions and pursuing ...

If you take a look at when the designs of the Mig 15 and 17 are actually fixed (and they're developed in the immediate post World War II era) I think that the Soviets were not able to get the ...

At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. secretly acquired 21 MiG-29 warplanes from Moldova to prevent their potential sale to Iran, fearing that the nuclear-capable MiG-29C variant might end up ...

Noteworthy, even on Israeli side there are a lot of images depicting Egyptian Mig-17 and Mig-21 shot down but not many images of the Syrian aircraft: another evidence that the SyAAF is an ...

Later models like the MiG-17 and MiG-19 built on this technology, leading up to the MiG-21. This jet was renowned for its agility and speed, and is arguably the most produced supersonic jet ...