MIG Alleyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

MIG Alley

1. Alternative form of MiG Alley.
   • 1951 August, James Jabara, “First Jet Ace”, in Catholic Digest, volume 15, number 10, sourced from Air Force, page 17, column 2:

     We fight a private little war up in MIG Alley. On our side of the Yalu river is the 4th Fighter Interceptor wing. On the other side are the Red MIG-15's.

   • 1951 September-October, Walter T. Ride, Jr., “Horse 'n Buggy Air Defense In Korea”, in Antiaircraft Journal, volume LXXXXIV, number 5, page 19, column 1:

     SUPER high speed, high altitude Communist jet fighters roam MIG Alley daily but as yet they have feared to venture south across the 38th.

   • 1952 April, Robert Hotz, “Can We Win in MIG Alley?”, in Air Force Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 24, column 1:

     This air space between the Yalu and the Chongchon, rising vertically from the snow carpet to the empty blue of 50,000 feet, is now the disputed no man's land of the Korean air war where the Chinese red air force is making its first serious challenge to American air supremacy in the jet era. […]
     MIG Alley is now the “big league” of air war where two USAF Sabre wings—the 4th and 5l1st—are fighting one of the great battles of history against swarms of red-nosed Russian MIG-15s in the first large scale clash of sweptwing jet fighters.

   • 2023 January 5, Richard Goldstein, Alex Traub, “Kenneth Rowe, Who Defected From North Korea With His Jet, Dies at 90”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-05, Asia Pacific‎:

     Seven decades later, that plane still exists, and resides at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton, Ohio.
     Its red star repainted, it is on display alongside an American F-86 Sabre jet, a remembrance of the dogfights of the Korean War in the swath of sky known as MIG Alley.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:MIG Alley.