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 ...

As America’s first supersonic fighter, the F-100 Super Sabre pushed pilots and engineers into unknown territory. Early ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 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 ...