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Originally Posted by olife
the real dogfights between "west"propeller fighters and "east"propeller fighters:
june 1950-the f82g twin mustang " bucket o' bolt" destroy a north korean yak7u and 3 others f82 pilots destroy 3 north korean fighter(probably a yaks)
june 29th 1950-2 f-51mustang destroy 3 north korean il10
june 30th 1950-1 f51 mustang destroy 1 la7
april 21st 1951-4 north korean yak9 attack 2 f4u-4 corsair of vma 312:3 yak were destroy by us pilots and the last was damaged
in fact ,i think the qualities of the pilots are as primordial as the fly qualities of the planes...even if the north korean rookies pilots must be courageous and fly in the good planes ,they had not one chance to survive against the exelent us pilots(veterans of ww2)...who had a good planes too
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No doubt pilot knowledge is important, but just going on statistics of the planes, a P-51 against a Yak-3 or others wouldn't stand a chance at low altitudes; and we're talking the VK-105PF-2 Klimov engine. Not the VK-107 or 108 which had terrible problems; and even the engines powering the Yaks in Korea had terrible engines as well.
Anyway, that's weird they had Yak-7s and La-7s in Korea. Most were just basic Yak-9s and La-9s that were just another varient. (And it was always, even through WW2, known that Yak-9s had engine problems like none other.) But more to the point, I thought the only Yak-7s were the UTI variants that were just trainers, not actual Yak-7s like from WW2.
Plus, just to add something more to this. The Yak's and La's used in Korea, actually had significant armor upgrades which slowed them down, they added radios, and other things that Western Front planes in WW2 had. So they were nothing like the Yaks and Las of WW2... just thought I'd also point that out to anyone.
Thanks for the info though Olife, do you mind linking us to the site you got that info from. I'd like to look into that.
