The other big issue which was not fully understood until the Americans had captured some Soviet aircraft was that the MiGs were not built to be used regularly for training and other flights. The Soviet aircraft simply could not withstand the number and type of flight hours required to train a pilot to the level of proficiency that the western allies achieved. This is best demonstrated by India's experiences with the MiG-21 and General Dynamics F-16, where using both aircraft similarly has proven to be very dangerous to the MiG pilots.[1]
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The other big issue which was not fully understood until the Americans had captured some Soviet aircraft was that the MiGs were not built to be used regularly for training and other flights. The Soviet aircraft simply could not withstand the number and type of flight hours required to train a pilot to the level of proficiency that the western allies achieved. This is best demonstrated by India's experiences with the MiG-21 and General Dynamics F-16, where using both aircraft similarly has proven to be very dangerous to the MiG pilots.[1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21#India
And yet, despite the superiority of the air stuff, the ground war didn't go so well--that being the main focus of the article it would seem.