Ground effect

[Spanky]

An Iraqi flying a Mirage F1 came upon a US EF-111A Raven at low level, and pursued it. As a bit of background to this, the Mirage is a reasonably decent aircraft at low level, but the EF-111A is something else. It's an unarmed electronic warfare version of the F-111 Aardvark, and has terrain following radar, which enables it to fly at Mach 1 or more, 60 metres above the ground (that's about 0.4 seconds away from the ground), while the pilot watches the view. It's one of the fastest aircraft in the world at low level. Maybe this Iraqi didn't know anything about the F-111, but he decided that it looked like an easy target, and pursued it at very low level.

The EF-111 crew were credited with a kill when the Iraqi (not surprisingly) slammed into the ground.

There can't be too many occasions when an unarmed aircraft score

[Boomerang]

Sounds like one of the 2 kills the F-4 we have at the Langley visitor center has. It had a mig on its tail it went into a dive the F-4 pulled up the mig did'nt.

[Sandrat]

Ah, the joys of hydraulically boosted flight surfaces......