The North American F-100 Super Sabre was the first U.S. jet fighter capable of sustained supersonic speed in level flight—an ...

Long after it left American service, the F-100 fought on—from Taiwan’s tense spy runs over China to the 1964 Cyprus conflict ...

The F-100 Super Sabre made her maiden flight on May 25 ... In the words of former Hun driver Dave Barnett, “Yes, the F-100 was a great fighter jet which I thoroughly enjoyed flying.

On October 14, 1947, an orange-painted Bell X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Though the rocket-powered X-1 was an experimental ...

While the Super Sabre just barely broke the sound barrier, it paved the way for other fighter jets capable of flying twice as fast as the speed of sound and other planes exceeding Mach 3.

Without further ado, these are the fighter jets the other side feared the most. The F-86 Sabre was the first U.S. fighter jet to employ the swept-wing design pilfered from German engineering just ...

Among other aircraft, North American produced the F-86 Sabre Jet fighter plane, a mainstay in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal at the time. Members of the main aerospace labor union at the NAA plant ...

After two years of painstaking work, volunteers at the Dareton Men's Shed have unveiled the result of their efforts; revealing a magnificent, freshly painted 1954 RAAF CA-27 Sabre Fighter Jet.