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4 unusual facts about Dogfight


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Dogfight, or dog fight, close-range aerial combat between military aircraft

Josh Segarra

He then went on to perform as one of the Marine's in Pasek & Paul's new musical Dogfight, based on the film of the same name.

Mikoyan Project 1.44

Because the LFI was shelved, 1.42 had by then assumed the multi-role approach, meaning that it had to fulfill both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions.

Stand for Something

The video is mostly CGI animated in the fashion of the album art, and portrays Benji Webbe and Mikeydemus running speeches in a Hitler-esque fashion, while a Dogfight ensues between Benji's army and Mikey's army.


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Cumbernauld Airport

During the early years of the airport's new incarnation there was even an airshow, the highlight being a display by the Red Arrows and a mock dogfight between a Supermarine Spitfire and a German Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter.

Eric Hedlin

This put him into the 5 km race where he was in a dogfight with former World Champion Thomas Lurz and Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli.

Immelmann turn

The aerobatic Immelman turn derives its name from a different maneuver altogether; the dogfighting tactic of World War I named after the German pilot Max Immelmann, and described above.

Kelton Flinn

Air Warrior (1986) — This game, offered on GEnie, is a key milestone in the history of computer games because it was the first commercial multiplayer online game to add graphics, displaying a 3D airplane dogfight environment.

Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

It includes some studio-bound footage of a Luftwaffe base and the interiors of plane cockpits, alongside genuine newsreel footage of an aerial dogfight and a downed plane.

Prince Vultan

In a 2008 episode of the animated sitcom Family Guy called "Road to Germany", Brian, Stewie and Mort enlist the help of Vultan's Hawkman Army in a dogfight over Europe against the Luftwaffe.

Reggiane Re.2001

MM.7210, hit during the dogfight, made an emergency landing at Comiso, in Sicily.

Today We Live

After obtaining General Douglas MacArthur's help in reserving March Field in California, individual aerial sequences were shot although footage from Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930) including the bomber mission, the "dogfight" sequence complete with the head-on collision of two aircraft, was merged into the final production print.

William Dolley Tipton

Four days later, he destroyed two Fokker D.VII in a late afternoon dogfight, but was also wounded and shot down, most probably by Leutnant Hermann Frommherz.

Yalu River

During the war the valley surrounding the western end of the river also became the focal point of a series of dogfights for air superiority over North Korea, earning the nickname "MiG Alley" in reference to the MiG-15 fighters flown by the combined North Korean, Chinese and Soviet forces.


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