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On March 12, 1953 the Cold War suddenly turned very hot for the RAF. For it was on this day that Soviet fighters finally brought down a British aircraft, in an uneven contest between an ageing Avro Lincoln and a MiG-15 jet. The first months of 1953 were a particularly tense time in the history […]

Lincoln Bomber. MiG-15. On 12 March 1953, a RAF Lincoln (RF531 “C”) of Central Gunnery School was shot down 20 mi (32 km) NE of Lüneburg, Germany by a Soviet MiG-15 as it flew to Berlin on a training flight, resulting in the deaths of the seven crew members. # The only RAF aircraft ever […]