A warplane and its gallant pilots were celebrated over the weekend. The new F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter exhibit at the Military Aviation Preservation Society Air Museum in Green is of both national ...

Initially designed as a supersonic fighter-bomber capable of nuclear delivery, the F-100 Super Sabre symbolized American aviation strength in the Cold War. By the mid-1960s, its shiny aluminum finish ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In April 1961, F-100Ds in the Philippines were transferred to Thailand—the first U.S. military jets deployed to South East Asia. They did not see combat until 1964 ...

The F-22 and F-15 can travel at speeds up to and beyond Mach 2.25 and the F-35 can hit speeds of Mach 1.6, yet the first supersonic fighter aircraft emerged as far back as the 1950s with the North ...

On this day in aviation history, 72 years ago-May 25, 1953-the North American F-100 Super Sabre took to the skies for the first time. The maiden flight was conducted by North American Aviation's chief ...

"A Detail & scale aviation publication." An expanded, updated, and extensively rev. ed. of: The F-100 Super Sabre in detail & scale. 1980. https://siris-libraries.si ...

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Here’s What You Need to Know: America’s first supersonic jet did not excel as a fighter and had beastly accident rate. On October 14, 1947, an orange-painted Bell X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager became ...