April 13, 2022
MiGs for Ukraine
By Marty Ellison
The Polish government made a half-serious offer to lend their MiG-29 fighter jets to the embattled Ukrainians. They intended to do the deal at an American airbase in Germany, which might have isolated them from Russia's wrath to a small degree, but the U.S. balked.
The U.S. faced a similar problem just prior to the American involvement in WWII. The Neutrality Act of 1935 was enacted to prevent the U.S. from becoming involved in future wars. No war-related hardware could be exported to a country at war, including friendly countries such as Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Canada. These countries had U.S.-manufactured aircraft on order, but because of the Neutrality Act, there was no way to legally deliver them. An ingenious subterfuge was crafted: find a pair of suitable landing fields closely straddling the Canadian-U.S. border. A pair of customs brokers, one Canadian and one American, worked out the "rules of the game," while pilots from each side selected the landing sites. Delivery pilots from the California aircraft factories landed, then taxied the aircraft just short of the border. Civilians on both sides used tractors and even horses to tow the aircraft across the border, where Canadian military pilots then ferried them off to training bases and across the North Atlantic.
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