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    American F-86 Sabre. F-86 Sabre Pilots Association Four-part series about the F-86 Sabre – Extended F-86 Sabre article set Warbird Alley: F-86 Sabre page – Information...
    94 KB (11,369 words) - 05:12, 18 September 2024
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    interview Les Waltman." Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Sabre-pilots.org. Retrieved: 19 July 2011. Nicolle 1995, pp. 12–13 Gordon 2002, p. 67...
    52 KB (6,536 words) - 21:15, 11 September 2024
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    The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American...
    97 KB (11,335 words) - 20:42, 10 September 2024
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    Golden Sabres found itself short of pilots and crew because of the crisis in the south. At the same time the Red Aces primary use of the F-86 Sabre has been...
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    plagued all early swept-wing aircraft. In the F-100 Super Sabre it even got its own name, the Sabre dance. In aircraft with high-mounted tailplanes, like...
    16 KB (2,307 words) - 22:17, 27 March 2024
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    aircraft. Pakistan had a "decade's experience with the Sabre", however, and experienced pilots. India and Pakistan made disputed claims of losses in the...
    42 KB (4,277 words) - 17:07, 24 June 2024
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    Equipped with the F-86 Sabre, the squadron was assigned the role of operational conversion unit and trained pilots on the F-86 Sabre. The squadron later...
    20 KB (1,531 words) - 12:59, 13 September 2024
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    conflict the American F-86 Sabre pilots claimed to have destroyed 792 MiG-15s in air-to-air combat for a loss of 78 Sabres – a phenomenal 10 to 1 kills-to-losses...
    15 KB (1,111 words) - 06:12, 22 February 2024
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    the pilots having only 50–60 hours flying the MiG. Consequently, those units suffered great losses from the now better-prepared American Sabre pilots. At...
    123 KB (16,075 words) - 18:47, 18 September 2024
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    Ed White (astronaut) (category American test pilots)
    Squadron at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, where he flew the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre fighters. In 1958, he enrolled in the University of Michigan...
    59 KB (5,825 words) - 10:32, 12 September 2024
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    production Typhoons. Test pilots found the Tempest a great improvement over the Typhoon in performance; in February 1943 the pilots from the Aeroplane & Armament...
    80 KB (10,248 words) - 19:44, 12 September 2024
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    of operation the F-86 had 282 class A accidents with a loss of 112 pilots. The Sabre was also a simpler aircraft and was normally flown at higher altitude...
    26 KB (2,724 words) - 22:48, 9 September 2024
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    Jacqueline Cochran (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    1980) was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation as one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation. She...
    42 KB (4,933 words) - 23:43, 8 September 2024
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    Bob Hoover (category American test pilots)
    aircraft to their pilots. Hoover flew flight tests on the North American FJ-2 Fury, F-86 Sabre, and the North American F-100 Super Sabre. In the early 1960s...
    35 KB (3,876 words) - 18:38, 19 August 2024
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    pilots are commissioned officers. This is also true for pilots of most other aircraft. Fighter pilots must be in optimal health to handle the physical demands...
    83 KB (8,941 words) - 02:22, 15 September 2024
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    attributed to Typhoon pilots as a result was statistically improbable in view of the far lower known level of overclaim by Allied pilots in air-to-air combat...
    70 KB (9,709 words) - 02:49, 7 September 2024
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    fighter pilots which included the organization's first four female fighter pilots. Three years of training had been completed by the pilots at PAF Academy...
    165 KB (14,515 words) - 16:41, 16 September 2024
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    over from World War II. To combat the MiGs, the F-86 Sabre was put into production. The U.S. pilots had a number of major advantages over the Chinese, including...
    71 KB (9,197 words) - 06:23, 25 August 2024
  • destroyers. In the British Army, CAMM forms the interceptor component of the Sky Sabre/Land Ceptor air defence system, which replaced the Rapier missile from 2021...
    80 KB (7,963 words) - 23:59, 15 September 2024
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    Museum". planesoffame.org. Retrieved 2023-11-20. "North American F-86F 'Sabre' | Planes of Fame Air Museum". planesoffame.org. Retrieved 2023-11-05....
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