F-100 pilot crashes after fatal “Sabre Dance”
F-100 Super Sabre The F-100, which was created as an upgrade to the F-86 Sabre that saw action in the Korean War, was the first airplane in production to reach…
F-100 Super Sabre The F-100, which was created as an upgrade to the F-86 Sabre that saw action in the Korean War, was the first airplane in production to reach…
“I start the aggressive [6.5-G] pull into the vertical—and the aircraft explodes… Any F-100 pilot who hears a loud ‘BANG!’ automatically thinks, ‘compressor stall,’” Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak F-100 Thunderbird…
It was clear that the Delta 2 could easily break the current world air speed record due to the ease with which it entered the supersonic regime, without any of…
The F-100 Super Sabre significantly altered the US Air Force. Chuck Yeager’s orange-painted Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier in level flight for the first time on October 14, 1947.…
When an engine fire produced a strong oscillation of the fly-by-wire aircraft in July 1979 while Norman “Ken” Dyson was piloting Have Blue No. 2, he was forced to eject.…