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> > Аналогично - если вы имеете хоть полбуквы на мою больную тему "откуда в США взялся Як-23" - уж извините - каждому свое:-)
Еще полбуквы.
Только переводить больше не буду.
I know!! I know!!
October 13 2001 at 2:43 PM Mike Horrell
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I saw a TV special on this airplane not long ago. The plane was acquired "temporarily" from a not-so-unfriendly Balkan country in one of thos Cold War spook deals that sounds too good to be true.
It was crated up and then shipped by rail from one Eastern Block country to another and the receiving country (still not identified but I'm guessing Yugoslavia) offered it to us for evaluation if we would return it exactly as it was with no evidence that it had been more than delayed by the wretched rail system of the realy fifties (ain't much better from Prauge to Vienna these days either...).
Tom Collins and Chuck Yeager evaluated it here (Wright Field?) and were passing it off as the Bell X-5 because the silohuette was similar from a distance. More than a few people probably caught on but kept their silence and it was shipped back with no one the wiser.
Quite a story. I wish I had taped the episode. It was on History Discovery or Wings in the last six months and they had a lot of good ground and air footage of it being tested. It turned out to be a very good second-line fighter much better than was expected.
Mike (trivia is my middle name) Horrell