Interesting book: John Boyd- Fighter Pilot. This gives an interesting contrarian overview of an F-86 pilot who was actually in Korea, then flew every jet we had, and went on to do very interesting things. Boyd helped design the F-15 & F-16 for highest possible fighter performance against the wishes of the WWII bomber generals who were running the US Airforce. These generals wanted everything in the USAF to deliver tactical atomic weapons and were not interested in fighter aircraft, resulting in the (Navy-designed) F4 which had no cannon, only poorly performing rockets. And high altitude F-105s doing "Iron bombs to mud" delivery missions at low altitudes against men pushing bicycles. This book includes great stories about US vs USSR fighter aircraft comparisons originated by Boyd in which he DOCUMENTED rather alarming deficiencies, as suggested by Wouter. (One can Google up this story of John Boyd- or visit his official museum display at U.S. Marine Corps. headquarters).