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作者：xilihutu 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
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NARRATOR: One of the original members of the top secret team that studied the captured Sabre still lives in a Russian Air Force housing complex just outside Moscow.
Vadim Matskevich's job was to evaluate and adapt Western technology for use on Soviet aircraft. He was able to learn a lot from the captured Sabre.
VADIM MATSKEVICH: (Russian dialogue)
INTERPRETER: All the equipment was stripped off the aircraft including the electronic gun sight. It was sent to our Institute in Chkalovskaya.
VADIM MATSKEVICH: (Russian dialogue)
INTERPRETER: I was given the task of studying the Sabre's electronic gun sight, its design, how it worked, its performance. I wrote a report explaining its exceptional qualities compared with the equipment on Soviet aircraft.
VADIM MATSKEVICH: (Russian dialogue)
NARRATOR: Here's what Matskevich discovered.
The Sabre was equipped with radar to give the pilot his target's exact range. Thatinformation, processed by a rudimentary computer, automatically positioned his gunsight – telling him where he should point his nose and shoot.
VADIM MATSKEVICH: (Russian dialogue)
INTERPRETER: I explained that all the gun sight data was projected on to the forward windscreen, the range and target was automatically encircled, it was absolutely outstanding!
NARRATOR: This information was vital, enabling Matskevitch to create a warning receiver that could pick up the gunsight's radar frequency and alert MiG pilots to a Sabre's approach.
VADIM MATSKEVICH: (Russian dialogue)
INTERPRETER: It warns you that there's an aircraft approaching from behind. At the furthest distance it gives a single sound like... When the aircraft gets closer... And when it gets really close... The last is a really alarming noise. It saved the lives of a lot of our pilots.
NARRATOR: By snatching Sabres, the Russians could exploit Western technology. When Bud Mahurin was captured, so was his jet – a later generation, Model E, with a special tail.
Like the MiG, earlier model Sabres had a tail that was split.
But the tail on the Model E Sabre moved as one fixed piece. This design, along with enhanced flight controls, was why the F-86 could dive so well at high speeds.
Steadily, the F-86 was refined. In June of '52, the ultimate Korean War-era Sabre was unleashed. The F-86 F had an even more powerful engine, with 770 added pounds of thrust. The leading edge of the wings was streamlined, while the size of the wings as increased. The result: improved aerodynamics and stability.
Here was a plane that, even when weighed down with fuel, could climb nearly as fast as a MiG – and take on the MiG at any altitude.
The U.S. finally got its chance to inspect a MiG in September, 1953, when a young North Korean pilot, disillusioned with Communism, set out on a dangerous bid to defect to the West.
KEN ROWE: That day I decided I was ready to die. I had a 20% chance of success. So I took off for the south. That was the luckiest day of my life. The US radar at Kimpo Airbase was shut down for the maintenance work on that day. So they didn't see me. You see how lucky I could be. The anti aircraft gunners, they all thought this war was over. They were half asleep. Once I went over their head they shouted, "that is a MiG." That when I just passed over their head. That's when I landed. Then I went and I parked there. They were surprised and then one pilot came out and eh he did not know what's going on. So him and I shook hands. That's the first thing we did.
NARRATOR: The Americans put their prize to the test when flying legend Chuck Yeager, first man to exceed the speed of sound, put it through its paces. Unimpressed, he called the MiG a "Flying Booby Trap."
KEN ROWE: He went up to 50,000 feet then he dived down. He hit the Mach number 0.95 and then he couldn't get out of there because the control system does not respond. It's buffeting and very uncomfortable. So he went all the way down to 3000 feet above the water then somehow he got out.
NARRATOR: The MiG could still climb slightly faster and higher. But that was matched by the superior handling, gunsight, and g-suit of the late model Sabre.
The U.S. had dropped leaflets promising a hundred thousand dollars as an incentive to lure pilots. But Lieutenant No Kum-Sok was not even aware of the reward he was to receive. He went on to become an American citizen, and an aeronautical engineer. He changed his name to Ken Rowe.
And what became of his Western counterparts – those American and British pilots who ended up in enemy hands?
In July 1953, a ceasefire was declared. Fifteen Sabre pilots were repatriated, Michael Dearmond and Bud Mahurin among them. More than twice that many failed to return home.
Some may have been killed in action. But Michael Dearmond believes others remained behind, imprisoned by the Soviets.
MICHAEL DEARMOND: With hindsight I think I'm probably alive today because of the ignorance I portrayed to this Russian interrogator. I had at least three close friends who I think disappeared in the Gulag.
NARRATOR: If men were taken by the Russians, what became of them? During the Cold War, there was no way to find out.
Then, in 1992, in a bid to gain congressional approval for an aid package, Russian President Boris Yeltsin made a startling concession.
BORIS YELTSIN – ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: (Russian dialogue)
INTERPRETER – ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: Even if one American has been detained in my country and can still be found, I will find him. I will get him back to his family.
NARRATOR: For the first time, a Russian leader promised that any captured Americans would be sent home.
作者：xilihutu 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
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