DAYTONA BEACH − No Kum-Sok's dramatic escape from North Korea by flying his MiG-15 fighter jet to a U.S. air base in South Korea in 1953 made him an international celebrity. He wound up shaking hands ...

No Kum Sok, a North Korean fighter pilot, stole a Soviet MiG-15 on Sept. 21, 1953, and delivered it to South Korea. The audacious act, weeks after the Korean War ended in a stalemate, made ...

This Saturday, March 1, 2025, the Planes of Fame Air Museum will host another special Flying Day, featuring a “Flying Demo” ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Sixty years ago, Lt. No Kum-Sok spent the night floating on a barge on a river, surrounded by other North Korean Air Force pilots happy to have survived the Korean War. But Kum-Sok, ...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE -- Sitting in the cockpit of a MiG-15 brought back old memories Friday for Ken Rowe, not all of them good. More than 50 years ago, when his name was No Kum-Sok, he defected in one ...

Meet the MiG-29K: Mikoyan Gurevich is one of the premier aircraft designers of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Its storied history includes some impressive aircraft such as the MiG-15, one of the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died at the age of 89, aircraft maker MiG said on Friday. Mikoyan is ...