Since the Dogfights series came up try this:
2nd half of:
YouTube - Dogfights - MiG Killers of USS Midway (3 of 5)
and 1st half of this:
YouTube - Dogfights - MiG Killers of USS Midway (4 of 5)
double Mig kill by LtCdr Mugs McKeown (he went straight for the Topgun CO slot after this...)
Edmund,
Strange this, about the Magic IR missile front aspect lockup. I do remember reading somewhere (might actually have been Mr Mogwi
whom I've annoyed in the past with such things !) that Martin Hale actually had an RWR indication hence the dive/release of chaff (which is odd if it was an IR missile that we are talking about). Unless of course he got 'painted' by the radar only without a lock and then observed a fuel tank jettisoning and thought he was being fired at, who knows! Moggy wrote that Hale had to dive several thousand feet to (apparently) break the lock?