We can also add:
RAF exchange pilots with the USAF in Korea:
Flight Lieutenant John Nicholls (later Vice Chief of the Air Staff in 1977) got the first in December 1952 (damaging three more).
Squadron Leader Max Higson from No.43 Squadron destroyed at least one MiG-15.
Flight Lieutenant Daniel who flew with 334 FIS at Kimpo was credited with damaging two MiGs during his six-month tour during 1952.
Flight Lieutenant RTF Dickinson, shot down one MiG-15
Flight Lieutenant John Granville-White shot down one MiG 15
Flight Lieutenant Graham S Hulse shot down three more MiG 15s
No 208 Squadron took its revenge after four of its unarmed Spits were downed by the IDF/AF. That can't be confirmed, though Tim McElhaw of 208 (later OC 14 in the Canberra era) certainly got two Egyptian Spit Vs on 22 May 1948, and on 7 January 1949 Flight Lieutenant Brian Spragg of 6 Squadron, flying an RAF Tempest, shot down an IDF/AF Spitfire IX.
Sadly, the stories of these are pretty sensitive but covered in depth here:
IAF v RAF
There is also persistant reporting that a Venom mate got a kill during the Suez op (perhaps on 5 November, perhaps Flying Officer Dave Williams of 249 Sqn, his victim being a Meteor), and that a Hunter got a manoeuvre kill against a MiG-17 during the Confrontation and that a Javelin crew got a Malaysian C-130 in 1964.
So, plenty of combat action outside of 1982's kills.
LJ
