Desert with a fighter.

[VANG]

Has ever in history a pilot commit desertion with his fighter?

[Albatross]

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[nemowork]

I suppose you could manage a desert if you had a Sopwith Camel?

[CreepingDeath]

Your Title is Intriguing. the whole desert has a fighter.


Has ever in history a pilot commit desertion or Defection with his fighter?

fixed.



Cold War Pilot Defectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cold_War_pilot_defections)

[el borracho]

Some I remember off the top of my head are the famous defection of the North Korean pilot to the South during the Korean War. This gave the US its first hands on look at a Mig-15. Another was when a massive fleet of Iraqis defected to Iran during the first Gulf War, rather than risk air-to-air combat with the coalition or having their aircraft systematically destroyed on the ground. The wiki article refers to them as pilots, but doesn't mention aircraft numbers.

[Bro Jangles]

A Mig 25 was flown to japan,


The aircraft's true capabilities were not revealed to the west until 1976 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_in_aviation) when Viktor Belenko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko), a Soviet MiG-25 pilot, defected to the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) via Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan). Subsequent analysis revealed a simple-yet-functional design with vacuum-tube electronics, two massive turbojet engines, and sparing use of advanced materials such as titanium. The MiG-25 series had a production run of 1,190 aircraft.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#cite_note-0) The MiG-25 flew with a number of Soviet allies and former Soviet republics and it remains in limited service in Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia) and several other nations.

[BlackFlag]

Check out the book: Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire by Alexander Zuyev.

It's pretty good.

[SpeedyHedgehog]

A Mig 25 was flown to japan,

http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/ee337/SpeedyHedgehog/MigPilot.jpg

Lt. Belenko's story. Excellent book.

[thanamestolga]

Check out the book: Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire by Alexander Zuyev.

It's pretty good.

If im not mistaken, he was the lad that made a run for Trabzon, here in Turkey?

[Alpheus]

Has ever in history a pilot commit desert with his fighter?

Yes, lots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cold_War_pilot_defections

[Azatavrear]

If im not mistaken, he was the lad that made a run for Trabzon, here in Turkey?

I recall two Iranian crewmembers that defected an F-5E to Turkey in 1983.
The Jet was returned in a week back to Iran.

[delio]

...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cold_War_pilot_defections


On March 20, 1991, Major (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major) Orestes Lorenzo Perez defected in his MiG-23BN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG-23) to a Naval Air Station in Key West, Florida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West,_Florida) on a training mission. On December 19, 1992 he returned to Cuba in a borrowed small, twin-engined 1961 Cessna 310 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_310), landing on a well known bridge along the coastal highway east of Havana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana) in Northern Matanzas Province (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanzas_Province) at the agreed time. His wife Victoria and their two sons, Reyneil, 11, and Alejandro, 6, were already waiting on his order delivered through a messenger earlier. Orestes Lorenzo Perez picked up his family and managed a successful safe return to Miami.Awesome

[BlackFlag]

If im not mistaken, he was the lad that made a run for Trabzon, here in Turkey?

Yeah, he ended up dying in a plane crash back in 2001.

[TR1]

Those Soviet defectors, had a lot of nonsense and make belief stuff in their books to be honest. Of course portrayed as heroes in the West, I have a slightly different picture of them...

[Chiptox]

There was that Iraqi who defected to Israel in the MiG-21 in 1966. That was a pretty big thing for the Israelis as it allowed them complete access to the plane to find it's weaknesses right before the balloon went up in the Six Day War.


TR1, I believe there was one Soviet military technician (navy maybe?) who defected to the US and was dissatisfied. After a year or so went back to the USSR with some crazy story about how the US drugged/kidnapped him or something. He was a bit... off.

[ARGAR FORKBEARD]

what happened to the funny pics!!!???

[CreepingDeath]

Not to moention No Kum Sok a.k.a. Kenneth Rowe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-Sok

Lived a Good Life after Defecting from NK.

[willytee]

Ice cream and Kimbo Slice. Ohh i get it now..

I thought i read something along the line of a Russian Tupolev bomber defeacted somewhere? I could be wrong.. but if anybody knows of anything please let me know. I cant remember where i found it or if it was true...

[Oneto15]

Lt Martin Monti USAF.

A very unusual tale that I first became aware of in the book 'Air War Italy 1944-1945'.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200409/ai_n9454071/?tag=content;col1

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=58686