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The F-100 Super Sabre Was the Fastest Plane in the Sky—and the Most Dangerous
After the F-100 joined the Air Force in 1954, the type was found to offer superior performance to existing U.S. fighters. But ...
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DCS World: F-86 - The Quest for the Second American Jet Ace (Or Maybe the First?) Korea 1951
After James Jabara was officially confirmed as the first American jet ace in history, he was sent back to the USA. The next interesting question became who would be the next man to follow. The most ...
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F-86 Sabre Association Deactivated
The F-86 Sabre, or SabreJet, is one of the cornerstones upon which the modern Air Force was built since its inaugural flight on Oct. 1, 1947. Members of the F-86 Sabre Association met recently on ...
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The F-86 Sabre, Hero of the Early Jet Age
The furious pace of cold war weapons development ensured the North American F-86 Sabre burned briefly but brightly, ceasing production at the end of 1956, just nine years after George Welch’s ...
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To Snatch a Sabre
The U.S. Air Force was able to determine precisely how the Soviet-built MiG-15 compared with its own premier fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre, because on September 21, 1953, two months after ...