North American F-100D Super Sabre The first production aircraft capable of Mach 1 in level flight, the F-100 was largely based on North American’s F-86 Sabre, the MiG-killing star of the Korean War.

During the early Rolling Thunder missions, the USAF relied on the F-100 Super Sabre to provide MIGCAPs, Combat Air Patrols to protect strike formations from North ... no American pilot was given ...

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 ...

radar-equipped fighters such as the North American F-100 Super Sabre and the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II that would fly in the skies above Vietnam and beyond. Today in Aviation History is a ...