[Iris7]

"Sic transit gloria mundi", as they say. Better, "Pride goeth before the fall". Hubris leads to nemesis.

A bit like the torpedo business in WWII. The upper brass just don't want to hear that they have hatched out a POS.

Trying to be a little more charitable (me??!!) I've been told that ADs have destroyed MIGs attacking them. Perhaps apocryphal GI legends.

[alfa6]

Skyraiders accounted for at least one MiG in both Korea and Vietnam. The MiG kills usually occured when the MiG pilots would make thew mistake of managing to fly low and slow in front of the Skyraider.

Jet jockeys tend to forget how manuverable a slow moving prop plane is relative to a jet or faster moving aircraft. I recall reading a book by a Swordfish pilot during WW-II. The Swordfish pilots had worked out a manuver routine that when used against a ME-109 or similar aircraft would put the Swordfish on the tail of the enemy A/C most of the time.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}