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Built in the 1950s as North American Aviation’s answer to the Air Force’s next-gen fighter-bomber competition, the F-107A Ultra Sabre packed radical features—from over-fuselage air intakes to early ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.