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North American F-86 Sabre
« on: December 08, 2011, 06:24:13 PM »
I am a bit lazy to make some intro text so I will take part of text from Wiki...

The North American F-86 Sabre (sometimes called the Sabrejet) was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as America's first swept wing fighter which could counter the similarly-winged Soviet MiG-15 in high speed dogfights over the skies of the Korean War. Considered one of the best and most important fighter aircraft in the Korean War, the F-86 is also rated highly in comparison with fighters of other eras.[3] Although it was developed in the late 1940s and was outdated by the end of the 1950s, the Sabre proved versatile and adaptable, and continued as a front-line fighter in numerous air forces until the last active operational examples were retired by the Bolivian Air Force in 1994.

Its success led to an extended production run of more than 7,800 aircraft between 1949 and 1956, in the United States, Japan and Italy. Variants were built in Canada and Australia. The Canadair Sabre added another 1,815 airframes, and the significantly redesigned CAC Sabre (sometimes known as the Avon Sabre or CAC CA-27), had a production run of 112. It was by far the most-produced Western jet fighter, with total production of all variants at 9,860 units.

First set of images is A model :))
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 06:36:15 PM »
This will be great! :-jump
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 11:44:48 PM »
Excellent.... I have three Sabres I would like to build this winter, an F-86L, an Mk.4 (basically by swaping the wings from an F-40 and a D), and a Navy Sabre drone :-jump :-clap. Then I will be all Sabred out......except prehaps for the one the one the Soviets recovered in Korea.
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 12:00:35 PM »
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except prehaps for the one the one the Soviets recovered in Korea.
I would like to see that. Any images? :-think
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 12:18:59 PM »
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except prehaps for the one the one the Soviets recovered in Korea.
I would like to see that. Any images? :-think

I will have to look this weekend for the article, it never carried Soviet markings I am almost positive. It crashed relatively intact in a tidal flat. The Soviets were actively trying to force an F-86 down so they could study it, if I remember correctly, they dispatched a team of pilots to Korea just for thsi purpose. I beleive the markings were similar to the F-86A pic. above (2nd row, 3rd pic.).
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2011, 11:35:13 AM »
From my side more progress on D model ;)
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2011, 12:05:07 PM »
Nice pics. I like F-86D :-ok
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2011, 12:36:23 PM »
Good! Very good. No doubt that you have huge collection photos of F-86 and we will see more. ;)
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2011, 06:25:43 AM »
Any F-86L instrument panel / cockpit photos by chance??
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2011, 06:49:48 AM »
Will see, I am not sure :(
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2011, 01:49:42 PM »
Awesome! Thank you :-ok
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2011, 08:32:11 PM »
E model
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2011, 08:34:15 PM »
Nice! ;)
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2011, 09:43:07 PM »
One large Yugoslav sample ;)
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Re: North American F-86 Sabre
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2011, 12:08:50 AM »
This is great!!!! :-clap :-clap
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