惊讶！在美军中知名度最高的中国飞行员竟是他！
焦景文是朝鲜战争中著名的王海大队的一员，王海的僚机，有击落敌机三架的记录，在中国空军的英雄榜上并不是最突出的一位，甚至也没达到"王牌飞行员"击落敌机5架的标准。但是他"不是王牌，胜似王牌"，因为在美国的空军圈子里，他的大名却比任何其他一名中国飞行员都响亮！这是因为他和美军王牌飞行员罗比- 雷斯那(ROBBIE RISNER)之间的一场经典空战。
雷思那可不是简单的人物。他是美国空军最著名的王牌飞行员之一，国会荣誉勋章的获得者。和德国、日本、苏联的顶级飞行员都交过手。可他认为自己一辈子遇到的最强大的对手却是一位被他击落的中国飞行员---焦景文。美国空军界也把这次空战视为空战史上经典中的经典。
阅读雷思那的战斗报告，虽是从敌人的角度，虽是一次我军失利的空战，其精彩与惊险却仍然历历在目，叹为观止。双方斗智斗勇的过程，也让人热血沸腾。读罢由衷叹一句，焦景文，真英雄也！
空战爆发于1952年10月10日。战斗一开始，经验老道的雷思那就先发现我机，突施偷袭。第一炮就打掉了焦景文座机的座舱盖，使焦一开始就陷入绝境。正当雷思那以为这将是一次轻松的猎杀时，焦景文却突然驾机直扑地面。在目瞪口呆的雷斯那认为已不可能的情况下，在离地面不到5英尺(不足两米)的高度拉起改平，擦地飞行。雷斯那虽然也直追下来，但已无法攻击。因为战斗机的机枪有个微微向上的角度，怎么也不可能对离地两米的目标开火的。两架飞机就在树梢的高度你追我赶，翻滚，盘旋，蛇形机动，互相企图寻找射击角度。按雷思那自己的话，他把"最后一点点的本事都使出来了"，"完全是凭着直觉"，才勉强咬住焦景文。为了争取一点点速度上的优势，焦景文曾飞出了一个让雷思那惊呼"平生所见最疯狂的动作之一"，横滚后倒着擦山顶飞过(焦景文可是没有座舱盖的)，焦的脑袋离山顶的树梢也只有几英尺。另一刻两机曾机翼挨着机翼贴地飞行，雷思那有机会清楚的看到对手的面孔(焦的氧气罩也被吸走了)，吃惊的发现是个年轻的东方人。他原以为这么高超的飞行员一定是个苏军飞行员。焦景文则向他示威的挥了挥拳头。
两人缠斗一阵后飞抵中方机场上空。地面防空炮火猛烈开火向美机射击。这时焦景文误以为在防空火力的掩护下已经安全了而放松了警惕，准备着陆。没想到狡猾的雷思那竟然穿透防空火网，直扑下来，在焦着陆的一刻打飞了他的半个机翼。但焦临危不乱，成功的将飞机迫降在跑道旁的草地上，安然无恙。但迫降激起的巨大尘土让雷斯那误以为战机已解体爆炸。他的僚机也兴奋的狂叫，"你刚刚干掉了整个共产空军！"(呵呵，对焦的评价够高的。)不过雷思那也为他的冲动付出了代价。他的僚机在返航途中被地面炮火击落，跳伞身亡。
雷斯那战后对此精彩空战的描述轰动美国空军，但一直不知道对手是谁。几十年后与中国空军开始接触后才知道是焦景文，於是他名扬海外。但中国空军很少有人知道这次空战，毕竟这是一次败仗。但我认为，重要的不是以成败论英雄，而是为焦景文在空战中表现的大无畏精神和无比高超的飞行技术而由衷自豪。
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焦景文
在抗美援朝战争中，王海大队因取得赫赫战功，被人们誉为"英雄的王海大队"。身为大队长的王海也因取得击落击伤9架美机的战绩，成为家喻户晓的著名战斗英雄。王海所取得的功绩，除了他具有英勇顽强、不怕牺牲的精神和高超的技战术外，与他有一个坚如盾牌的好僚机也是分不开的。
1953年5月 朝鲜战场上的英雄飞行员焦景文
王海的僚机名叫焦景文， 1大队的飞行员们都亲昵称他是"英雄僚机"、"钢铁般的空中盾牌"。 焦景文的功绩不仅在于自己击落击伤4架美机，更重要的是无论在什么情况下，他都始终如一地履行一个僚机飞行员的职责。在激烈的空战中，他像一面坚实的"盾牌"，顽强地给长机抵挡敌人的炮火；他又象一只坚强的"铁臂"，敌人左来左打，右来右击，保证长机的安全，取得战斗胜利。特别是他能根据空中瞬逝万变的情况，主动协助长机指挥，为全大队取得击落敌机4架，击伤1架的辉煌战果作出了重要贡献。
1952年12月3日，王海率领全大队12架战鹰与40多架美机展开一场鏖战。经过一场激烈角逐，全大队一举击落击伤美机5架，其余美机狼狈逃窜。随后，12位空中勇士满怀胜利的喜悦，踏上归途。
在返航途中，焦景文发现2架美机从后面偷偷咬上了我7号机，情况万分危急。焦景文立即将情况向长机作了报告，随后，和长机一起做了个半斤斗翻转，风驰电掣般地向美机扑过去。时刻关注长机安危的焦景文没有忘记自己的职责，警惕地搜索着四周，掩护长机前进。
突然， 焦景文发现左后方又有4架F－86飞机向他们扑来，而且已占据了高度优势。他急忙高声向长机报告：
"102，后面来了4架，赶快开炮打击前面敌机！"
"明白！"王海立即按动炮钮，把1架美机揍下去，另1架慌忙逃走。驾驶7号机的张滋脱离了险境，然而后面的4架美机已追了上来，到了开炮的距离。
"咚咚咚"！ 一阵急促的炮火从后上方射向焦景文的机身。"嘣"的一声，飞机剧烈抖动起来，震得焦景文头晕眼花。一股强劲的寒风吹进座舱，像无数钢针刺在他的脸上，钻心般疼痛。焦景文定了定神，抬头一看，座舱盖已被打掉一半，机翼上千疮百孔，升降舵也不太听使唤了。
焦景文使劲摇晃了几下操纵杆，飞机勉强还能操纵。于是，他咬紧牙关，驾驶着严重损伤的战鹰，继续掩护长机战斗。
可是没过一会儿，负伤的飞机速度越来越慢，操纵杆也渐渐不灵了。焦景文回头看看，美机仍紧追不放。他想，自己的飞机负了重伤，难以保持双机作战。这样一来，敌机就会集中火力攻击长机。得想个法子。
经过片刻思索，焦景文毅然决定：豁出自己的性命，把敌机引开，解除长机的危险。
"102，102，我不能掩护你了，你注意后面的警戒！"焦景文一面向长机报告，一面猛蹬右舵，向东北方向转去，与长机分成两岔。
4架美机见机身负伤的焦景文成了单机，像饿久的恶狼猛然间发现猎物一样，争抢着扑了上去。
脱离了险境后的王海举目四望，焦景文已将美机引开。他连声疾呼："103，103......"耳机里没有回音。
在另一个空域，焦景文见4架美机都被引了过来，长机脱离了危险，心里踏实了许多。他琢磨现在该想法摆脱身后的美机了。可是，敌机分成两对双机，左右夹攻，疯狂地包抄上来。焦景文镇定一下情绪，驾驶着重伤的飞机，忽高忽低，忽左忽右，做着不规则的机动。美机连续攻击几次，都未得手。
又较量了几个回合，焦景文心想：这样单纯躲避，总不是办法，得摆脱被动展开反击，只有消灭敌人，才能保存自己。
这时，正好2架美机由于速度过大，冲到了焦景文的前面。他抑制不住内心的兴奋，暗叫一声："来得好！"适时按住炮钮，"咚！咚！咚！"一串炮弹飞泻而出。可惜因机身颤动，没有击中敌机要害。负伤后的美机不敢再战，逃之夭夭。另外2架美机又作了几次攻击，可是，直到炮弹耗尽，也未击中焦景文，只好怏怏地转弯收兵。
太阳落山了，晚霞染红长白山头。在战友们的起盼中，焦景文驾着负伤29处的战鹰奇迹般地飞回了基地。他以实际行动，覆行了自己的诺言："你要忠于祖国，就要忠于自己的职责，你要热爱祖国，就要热爱自己的长机。"
雷思那对空战描述的英文原文
Major Robinson "Robbie" Risner's sixth kill.
10 October 1952.
At 0900 Risner and his wingman, Joe Logan, taxied [their F-86s] down the Kimpo runway. The other two pilots followed in quick succeession. This flight, code-named "John Red," made its way to the Yalu, some thirty minutes from Kimpo. The flight's mission was to protect a squadron of USAF fighter-bombers that was scheduled to attack a chemical plant at the mouth of the river. When the flight arrived at "MiG Alley," Risner immediately gave the "pus*y willow" command [turn off IFF] and took the flight on a sweep along the Chinese side of the Yalu. This preemptive maneuver would give the fighter-bombers maximum protection against any potential MiG attacks.
The initial sweep yielded no MiG sightings. On the second sweep, however, Risner saw a glint of sunlight at his twelve o'clock low. As if by instinct, he knew that this sparkle meant MiGs. He ordered his flight to drop their wing fuel tanks. The four MiGs did the same as they made a 180-degree turn and retreated back toward their base at Antung. These MiGs were hungry for the lower performance F-84 fighter-bombers, and had no intention of tangling with the top-of-the-line F-86s. But Risner had other plans. He aligned his pipper on the tail-end Charlie and gave his six M-3 .50 caliber guns a squeeze. The incendiaries shattered the MiG's canopy.
In an effort to escape, the MiG pilot descended at maximum speed. At one point the MiG did a half-roll and flew upside down for fifty seconds as Risner pounded him with short bursts from his machine guns. The MiG then entered into a split-S, and Risner thought to himself, "This is going to be the easiest kill of my career." Risner, convinced that the MiG would not be able to pull out of the S in time to avoid hitting the ground, made an angling split-S and braced himself for the impending explosion. Nothing happened.
The MiG did not crash as Risner had so smugly predicted. Instead, it pulled out of the dive just in time, created a billowing cloud of dust and pebbles over a dry riverbed. The MiG, now flying five feet over the deck, was too low to hit with the F-86's guns, which fired slightly upward. But Risner had too much drive to cut off the chase. He was not about to let all those practice dogfights flown in the F-51 over the Oklahoma skies go to waste. FInally, he had met his match -- a pilot who would force him to draw on every skill he had ever learned. Risner was about to embark on the ultimate dogfight. At this point, Risner could not kill the MiG but at least he could take a good look at his foe. He maneuvered his F-86 alongside the MiG-15. As they coasted wingtip to wingtip, Risner peered into the no**** cockpit. He could see the eyes of the pilot and the stitching of his leather helmet. Risner noticed that the pilot's oxygen mask was gone: it had been sucked off when he shot away the canopy. The MiG pilot returned Risner's gaze and raised his fist in defiance.
The MiG then throttled back in an attempt to catch Risner off guard. He hoped to slip behind Risner and pound him with his 23- and 37- mm cannons. But Risner had too much situational awareness to fall for such a trap; he did a high G-force roll over the top of the MiG and came down behind it. SImultaneously, the MiG broke right, pulling all the G's it could. But Risner stayed behind the MiG. HE later commented, "I never thought about what I was doing, it was all reflex."
After several minutes of hard maneuvers, both planes exited the dry riverbed and began to climb a heavily wooded hill. To Risner's surprise, the MiG executed one of the craziest maneuvers he had ever seen. In an effort to gain a small speed advantage, the MiG did an inverted roll and flew upside down over the hill. His open cockpit was just a few feet from the treetops. Risner's wingman, Joe Logan, who had been flying high and to the right the entire time, screamed in the headset: "Hit him lead. Pound him!" But Risner could not. He was doing all he could just to stay behind him.
The planes rounded a hill at .8 Mach, then all of a sudden the MiG cut his throttle and Risner rolled over the top of him. Wingtip to wingtip now, the MiG pilot again raised his fist at Risner. Next the MiG made an abrupt, full-throttle, 90-degree turn to the left. Risner new that this was his last chance to blow this guy out of the sky. He let his pipper creep toward the MiG's tailpipe, and just as he was about to fire, Risner heard Logan's voice: "Lead, they're shooting at us." The two planes were now directly over the Chinese air base at Tak Tung Kau.
Despite this warning, Risner continued the chase: he was too close to let the MiG slip away. The MiG pilot erroneously assumed that the flak from the airfield would scare him off. It did not. Risner chased the MiG in between two hangars. When the MiG attempted to land on the dusty runway, Risner hammered him hard. He blew four feet off the left wing.
As the wing burned, the MiG pilot desperately sought out the grassy side of the runway for an emergency landing. Risner still had no intention of letting the plane land; he fired all of his remaining ammunition into its tailpipe. The MiG would not give up: it leveled off and attempted a "belly landing." At this point, his luck ran out. The MiG burst apart in a tremendous explosion, and pieces of flaming aircraft flew all over the airfield, igniting the parked aircraft nearby. "Red lead," Logan yelled ecstatically, "you just destroyed the whole Communist air force." Risner chuckled but was more intent on getting his wingman and himself safely back to base than reveling in his victory. Risner and Logan threw the coal to their engines and made a steep climb away from the base.
As the F-86s climbed out, they passed over some 250 anti-aircraft guns which lined the perimeters of both Tak Tung Kau and Antung air bases. Flak exploded all around them as the pilots jinked to avoid it. Just before Risner and Logan crossed the Yalu back into North Korea, Logan radioed Risner, "Lead, my fuel gauge is down." Risner flew around Logan's F-86 to make sure that the fuel tank had not been hit. It had. Fuel and hydraulic fluid were streaming out of Logan's belly. Risner radioed Logan, "It looks like you've been hit."
Fearing that his wingman would not have enough fuel and fluid to make it back to Kimpo, Risner decided on a bold course of action. He ordered Logan to open the throttle up: "Might as well use it before you lose it, Red 2." As soon as Logan ran out fo fuel, Risner would position his nose behind Logan's stricken aircraft and gently push it periodically until they reached the friendly island of Chodo [Cheju-do?], where Logan could safely bail out. Risner figured that enough air would be flowing through Logan's tailpipe and the gap below Risner's tailpipe to prevent Risner's F-86 from stalling, but the move was still risky. While executing this maneuver, Risner realized that he placed his own aircraft in danger. If he sucked in any damaged engine parts from Logan's plane, his own engine might quit, or worse yet, explode. To the pilots' utter amazement, the emergency maneuver worked.
Risner successfully pushed Logan's plane to a point tenes off the coast of Chodo. At this point, Logan radioed Risner, "OK, I am going to bail out. I'll see you in a little while as soon as they pick me up."...
(Risner lands, waits two hours, meets the seaplane, Logan drowned when the chute cord tangled around his neck)
From: Officers in Flight Suits. Sherwood.
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雷思那可不是简单的人物。他是美国空军最著名的王牌飞行员之一，国会荣誉勋章的获得者。和德国、日本、苏联的顶级飞行员都交过手。可他认为自己一辈子遇到的最强大的对手却是一位被他击落的中国飞行员---焦景文。美国空军界也把这次空战视为空战史上经典中的经典。
阅读雷思那的战斗报告，虽是从敌人的角度，虽是一次我军失利的空战，其精彩与惊险却仍然历历在目，叹为观止。双方斗智斗勇的过程，也让人热血沸腾。读罢由衷叹一句，焦景文，真英雄也！
空战爆发于1952年10月10日。战斗一开始，经验老道的雷思那就先发现我机，突施偷袭。第一炮就打掉了焦景文座机的座舱盖，使焦一开始就陷入绝境。正当雷思那以为这将是一次轻松的猎杀时，焦景文却突然驾机直扑地面。在目瞪口呆的雷斯那认为已不可能的情况下，在离地面不到5英尺(不足两米)的高度拉起改平，擦地飞行。雷斯那虽然也直追下来，但已无法攻击。因为战斗机的机枪有个微微向上的角度，怎么也不可能对离地两米的目标开火的。两架飞机就在树梢的高度你追我赶，翻滚，盘旋，蛇形机动，互相企图寻找射击角度。按雷思那自己的话，他把"最后一点点的本事都使出来了"，"完全是凭着直觉"，才勉强咬住焦景文。为了争取一点点速度上的优势，焦景文曾飞出了一个让雷思那惊呼"平生所见最疯狂的动作之一"，横滚后倒着擦山顶飞过(焦景文可是没有座舱盖的)，焦的脑袋离山顶的树梢也只有几英尺。另一刻两机曾机翼挨着机翼贴地飞行，雷思那有机会清楚的看到对手的面孔(焦的氧气罩也被吸走了)，吃惊的发现是个年轻的东方人。他原以为这么高超的飞行员一定是个苏军飞行员。焦景文则向他示威的挥了挥拳头。
两人缠斗一阵后飞抵中方机场上空。地面防空炮火猛烈开火向美机射击。这时焦景文误以为在防空火力的掩护下已经安全了而放松了警惕，准备着陆。没想到狡猾的雷思那竟然穿透防空火网，直扑下来，在焦着陆的一刻打飞了他的半个机翼。但焦临危不乱，成功的将飞机迫降在跑道旁的草地上，安然无恙。但迫降激起的巨大尘土让雷斯那误以为战机已解体爆炸。他的僚机也兴奋的狂叫，"你刚刚干掉了整个共产空军！"(呵呵，对焦的评价够高的。)不过雷思那也为他的冲动付出了代价。他的僚机在返航途中被地面炮火击落，跳伞身亡。
雷斯那战后对此精彩空战的描述轰动美国空军，但一直不知道对手是谁。几十年后与中国空军开始接触后才知道是焦景文，於是他名扬海外。但中国空军很少有人知道这次空战，毕竟这是一次败仗。但我认为，重要的不是以成败论英雄，而是为焦景文在空战中表现的大无畏精神和无比高超的飞行技术而由衷自豪。
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焦景文
在抗美援朝战争中，王海大队因取得赫赫战功，被人们誉为"英雄的王海大队"。身为大队长的王海也因取得击落击伤9架美机的战绩，成为家喻户晓的著名战斗英雄。王海所取得的功绩，除了他具有英勇顽强、不怕牺牲的精神和高超的技战术外，与他有一个坚如盾牌的好僚机也是分不开的。
1953年5月 朝鲜战场上的英雄飞行员焦景文
王海的僚机名叫焦景文， 1大队的飞行员们都亲昵称他是"英雄僚机"、"钢铁般的空中盾牌"。 焦景文的功绩不仅在于自己击落击伤4架美机，更重要的是无论在什么情况下，他都始终如一地履行一个僚机飞行员的职责。在激烈的空战中，他像一面坚实的"盾牌"，顽强地给长机抵挡敌人的炮火；他又象一只坚强的"铁臂"，敌人左来左打，右来右击，保证长机的安全，取得战斗胜利。特别是他能根据空中瞬逝万变的情况，主动协助长机指挥，为全大队取得击落敌机4架，击伤1架的辉煌战果作出了重要贡献。
1952年12月3日，王海率领全大队12架战鹰与40多架美机展开一场鏖战。经过一场激烈角逐，全大队一举击落击伤美机5架，其余美机狼狈逃窜。随后，12位空中勇士满怀胜利的喜悦，踏上归途。
在返航途中，焦景文发现2架美机从后面偷偷咬上了我7号机，情况万分危急。焦景文立即将情况向长机作了报告，随后，和长机一起做了个半斤斗翻转，风驰电掣般地向美机扑过去。时刻关注长机安危的焦景文没有忘记自己的职责，警惕地搜索着四周，掩护长机前进。
突然， 焦景文发现左后方又有4架F－86飞机向他们扑来，而且已占据了高度优势。他急忙高声向长机报告：
"102，后面来了4架，赶快开炮打击前面敌机！"
"明白！"王海立即按动炮钮，把1架美机揍下去，另1架慌忙逃走。驾驶7号机的张滋脱离了险境，然而后面的4架美机已追了上来，到了开炮的距离。
"咚咚咚"！ 一阵急促的炮火从后上方射向焦景文的机身。"嘣"的一声，飞机剧烈抖动起来，震得焦景文头晕眼花。一股强劲的寒风吹进座舱，像无数钢针刺在他的脸上，钻心般疼痛。焦景文定了定神，抬头一看，座舱盖已被打掉一半，机翼上千疮百孔，升降舵也不太听使唤了。
焦景文使劲摇晃了几下操纵杆，飞机勉强还能操纵。于是，他咬紧牙关，驾驶着严重损伤的战鹰，继续掩护长机战斗。
可是没过一会儿，负伤的飞机速度越来越慢，操纵杆也渐渐不灵了。焦景文回头看看，美机仍紧追不放。他想，自己的飞机负了重伤，难以保持双机作战。这样一来，敌机就会集中火力攻击长机。得想个法子。
经过片刻思索，焦景文毅然决定：豁出自己的性命，把敌机引开，解除长机的危险。
"102，102，我不能掩护你了，你注意后面的警戒！"焦景文一面向长机报告，一面猛蹬右舵，向东北方向转去，与长机分成两岔。
4架美机见机身负伤的焦景文成了单机，像饿久的恶狼猛然间发现猎物一样，争抢着扑了上去。
脱离了险境后的王海举目四望，焦景文已将美机引开。他连声疾呼："103，103......"耳机里没有回音。
在另一个空域，焦景文见4架美机都被引了过来，长机脱离了危险，心里踏实了许多。他琢磨现在该想法摆脱身后的美机了。可是，敌机分成两对双机，左右夹攻，疯狂地包抄上来。焦景文镇定一下情绪，驾驶着重伤的飞机，忽高忽低，忽左忽右，做着不规则的机动。美机连续攻击几次，都未得手。
又较量了几个回合，焦景文心想：这样单纯躲避，总不是办法，得摆脱被动展开反击，只有消灭敌人，才能保存自己。
这时，正好2架美机由于速度过大，冲到了焦景文的前面。他抑制不住内心的兴奋，暗叫一声："来得好！"适时按住炮钮，"咚！咚！咚！"一串炮弹飞泻而出。可惜因机身颤动，没有击中敌机要害。负伤后的美机不敢再战，逃之夭夭。另外2架美机又作了几次攻击，可是，直到炮弹耗尽，也未击中焦景文，只好怏怏地转弯收兵。
太阳落山了，晚霞染红长白山头。在战友们的起盼中，焦景文驾着负伤29处的战鹰奇迹般地飞回了基地。他以实际行动，覆行了自己的诺言："你要忠于祖国，就要忠于自己的职责，你要热爱祖国，就要热爱自己的长机。"
雷思那对空战描述的英文原文
Major Robinson "Robbie" Risner's sixth kill.
10 October 1952.
At 0900 Risner and his wingman, Joe Logan, taxied [their F-86s] down the Kimpo runway. The other two pilots followed in quick succeession. This flight, code-named "John Red," made its way to the Yalu, some thirty minutes from Kimpo. The flight's mission was to protect a squadron of USAF fighter-bombers that was scheduled to attack a chemical plant at the mouth of the river. When the flight arrived at "MiG Alley," Risner immediately gave the "pus*y willow" command [turn off IFF] and took the flight on a sweep along the Chinese side of the Yalu. This preemptive maneuver would give the fighter-bombers maximum protection against any potential MiG attacks.
The initial sweep yielded no MiG sightings. On the second sweep, however, Risner saw a glint of sunlight at his twelve o'clock low. As if by instinct, he knew that this sparkle meant MiGs. He ordered his flight to drop their wing fuel tanks. The four MiGs did the same as they made a 180-degree turn and retreated back toward their base at Antung. These MiGs were hungry for the lower performance F-84 fighter-bombers, and had no intention of tangling with the top-of-the-line F-86s. But Risner had other plans. He aligned his pipper on the tail-end Charlie and gave his six M-3 .50 caliber guns a squeeze. The incendiaries shattered the MiG's canopy.
In an effort to escape, the MiG pilot descended at maximum speed. At one point the MiG did a half-roll and flew upside down for fifty seconds as Risner pounded him with short bursts from his machine guns. The MiG then entered into a split-S, and Risner thought to himself, "This is going to be the easiest kill of my career." Risner, convinced that the MiG would not be able to pull out of the S in time to avoid hitting the ground, made an angling split-S and braced himself for the impending explosion. Nothing happened.
The MiG did not crash as Risner had so smugly predicted. Instead, it pulled out of the dive just in time, created a billowing cloud of dust and pebbles over a dry riverbed. The MiG, now flying five feet over the deck, was too low to hit with the F-86's guns, which fired slightly upward. But Risner had too much drive to cut off the chase. He was not about to let all those practice dogfights flown in the F-51 over the Oklahoma skies go to waste. FInally, he had met his match -- a pilot who would force him to draw on every skill he had ever learned. Risner was about to embark on the ultimate dogfight. At this point, Risner could not kill the MiG but at least he could take a good look at his foe. He maneuvered his F-86 alongside the MiG-15. As they coasted wingtip to wingtip, Risner peered into the no**** cockpit. He could see the eyes of the pilot and the stitching of his leather helmet. Risner noticed that the pilot's oxygen mask was gone: it had been sucked off when he shot away the canopy. The MiG pilot returned Risner's gaze and raised his fist in defiance.
The MiG then throttled back in an attempt to catch Risner off guard. He hoped to slip behind Risner and pound him with his 23- and 37- mm cannons. But Risner had too much situational awareness to fall for such a trap; he did a high G-force roll over the top of the MiG and came down behind it. SImultaneously, the MiG broke right, pulling all the G's it could. But Risner stayed behind the MiG. HE later commented, "I never thought about what I was doing, it was all reflex."
After several minutes of hard maneuvers, both planes exited the dry riverbed and began to climb a heavily wooded hill. To Risner's surprise, the MiG executed one of the craziest maneuvers he had ever seen. In an effort to gain a small speed advantage, the MiG did an inverted roll and flew upside down over the hill. His open cockpit was just a few feet from the treetops. Risner's wingman, Joe Logan, who had been flying high and to the right the entire time, screamed in the headset: "Hit him lead. Pound him!" But Risner could not. He was doing all he could just to stay behind him.
The planes rounded a hill at .8 Mach, then all of a sudden the MiG cut his throttle and Risner rolled over the top of him. Wingtip to wingtip now, the MiG pilot again raised his fist at Risner. Next the MiG made an abrupt, full-throttle, 90-degree turn to the left. Risner new that this was his last chance to blow this guy out of the sky. He let his pipper creep toward the MiG's tailpipe, and just as he was about to fire, Risner heard Logan's voice: "Lead, they're shooting at us." The two planes were now directly over the Chinese air base at Tak Tung Kau.
Despite this warning, Risner continued the chase: he was too close to let the MiG slip away. The MiG pilot erroneously assumed that the flak from the airfield would scare him off. It did not. Risner chased the MiG in between two hangars. When the MiG attempted to land on the dusty runway, Risner hammered him hard. He blew four feet off the left wing.
As the wing burned, the MiG pilot desperately sought out the grassy side of the runway for an emergency landing. Risner still had no intention of letting the plane land; he fired all of his remaining ammunition into its tailpipe. The MiG would not give up: it leveled off and attempted a "belly landing." At this point, his luck ran out. The MiG burst apart in a tremendous explosion, and pieces of flaming aircraft flew all over the airfield, igniting the parked aircraft nearby. "Red lead," Logan yelled ecstatically, "you just destroyed the whole Communist air force." Risner chuckled but was more intent on getting his wingman and himself safely back to base than reveling in his victory. Risner and Logan threw the coal to their engines and made a steep climb away from the base.
As the F-86s climbed out, they passed over some 250 anti-aircraft guns which lined the perimeters of both Tak Tung Kau and Antung air bases. Flak exploded all around them as the pilots jinked to avoid it. Just before Risner and Logan crossed the Yalu back into North Korea, Logan radioed Risner, "Lead, my fuel gauge is down." Risner flew around Logan's F-86 to make sure that the fuel tank had not been hit. It had. Fuel and hydraulic fluid were streaming out of Logan's belly. Risner radioed Logan, "It looks like you've been hit."
Fearing that his wingman would not have enough fuel and fluid to make it back to Kimpo, Risner decided on a bold course of action. He ordered Logan to open the throttle up: "Might as well use it before you lose it, Red 2." As soon as Logan ran out fo fuel, Risner would position his nose behind Logan's stricken aircraft and gently push it periodically until they reached the friendly island of Chodo [Cheju-do?], where Logan could safely bail out. Risner figured that enough air would be flowing through Logan's tailpipe and the gap below Risner's tailpipe to prevent Risner's F-86 from stalling, but the move was still risky. While executing this maneuver, Risner realized that he placed his own aircraft in danger. If he sucked in any damaged engine parts from Logan's plane, his own engine might quit, or worse yet, explode. To the pilots' utter amazement, the emergency maneuver worked.
Risner successfully pushed Logan's plane to a point tenes off the coast of Chodo. At this point, Logan radioed Risner, "OK, I am going to bail out. I'll see you in a little while as soon as they pick me up."...
(Risner lands, waits two hours, meets the seaplane, Logan drowned when the chute cord tangled around his neck)
From: Officers in Flight Suits. Sherwood.
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