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Japanese Nakajima Kikka

needed foldable wings to be hidden in caves, and to be built by unskilled labor.

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And the gear was from an a6m2 Zero! And the nose gear from a P1Y bomber!

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800mZero,

You got it, so you are up. With your name it does not suprise me that you came up with the answer so quick.

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During ww2 I flew the following

BT-13
T-6
P-36
P-39
P-40
P-47
Spitfire Mk9

However upon encountering the enemy for the first time I couldnt pull the trigger. Who am I?

Later on the only thing that could take me down was what?

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Gabreski

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ok and what finally took him down?

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Heart failure....[:o]

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nope thinking ww2 time frame here-notcied i did not mention he stint in korea.

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Well wikipedia says that he crashed because he pranged his prop on a German runway during a strafing run (on the day he was supposed to go home) and hid for 5 days until he was captured and confined in a POW camp for 9 months.

Also says he died of a heart attack, which is what I really think brought him down means... so I think previous poster was correct.

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i was looking for the groundI can only imagine seeing him so low in a 47 that he actually clipped the ground with his propellor blades.

six your up.

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I am going to defer to UnclJoe.... for I think brought him down really means; cause of death... not to argue, and I have had my share lately... All my research was one Google and hitting wikipedia.

uncljoe you are up.... give us a good question

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What aircraft finally forced an end of overflights of the Soviet Union ?
Semper Fi

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Technically it was the SA-2 missle system. The last flight over the Soviet Union was May 1st 1960... and we all should know what happened then...

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NO . (my reference is Jane's Air War) .... SA2 knocked down a U 2 ....

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Are you referring to the U2 that was shot down by Gary Powers that stopped the overflight? Or refferring to a Russian plane that ended it?

After the SR-71 was developed, it flew unchallenged over Russia for years, Pilots would say all they had to do was throttle forward and missle warnings would dissapear.

Then after the large use of Satellite reconnaisance. That pretty much ended it for the SR-71 Because any pictures could be taken with Satellites.

But I'm not quite sure thats what you were going for?

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Or on the Russian side of it are you reffering to the Mig 25? The first Russian Mach 2.5+ high altitude interceptor.

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You are getting close .

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YE-155 or YE-266 essentially all the same aircraft with different designations all leading up to the MIG 25 Foxbat?

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The Mig 25 never had a prayer of getting within an effective missile launch window of a SR-71, or did any other Russian A/C.
The answer Unclejo is probably looking for is the Mig-31 employing the R-33 missile. But again the speed and altitude the SR-71 used would present an almost impossible intercept solution in the real world. Look how long it took for the ruskies to bag that poor ole 747 poking along at 500 knots.

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Didn't matter, No missle made at the time could catch the SR-71 regardless of how fast the launch plane was.

The Mig 25 could reach Mach 3.2 but only in short bursts, in a few documented cases by other countries that used the Mig 25 if you ran it at mach 3.0 or more for sustained distances it would melt the engines down.

Whereas the SR-71 could fly mach 3.2+ indefinately.

But the Mig 25 was not designed to match the SR-71. It was designed to intercept the U.S. XB-70 mach 3 bomber.

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The Russia equipped certain mig's to try to catch the SR71 but they kept burning out the engines

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Think about how Soviet intercepts were done and their radar systems . The foxbat was a good interceptor but not up to the job of intercepting the SR 71......

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I guess I don't follow the question. All overflights of aircraft by the US over Russia ended in 1960 with the shootdown of the U-2...

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And I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn......

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... The Russians still consider the SR 71 a MAJOR THREAT even if the US & Russia had a No fly over pact,Stuff happens,in the BLACK World . Getting Back to the question WHAT Soviet aircraft proved to the US that SR 71 overflights were no longer worth the risk. Even with their (SR 71) high altitude maneuverability & ECM could not have defeated the russians. Fortunately for the crew (SR71)the interception took place over international waters(northern Pacific) . The soviets proved their point and there is rumor that this incident was a factor in the USAF decision to retire the SR 71. What Russian aircraft is it?
Semper Fi

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MIG-25 FOXBAT. documented.