Saturday, April 4, 2020

F-86 Sabre Jet






8 comments:

  1. They were beautiful planes, weren't they?

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  2. Flic #2 is especially good. Pilots are hell busting for election to get airborne. Once heard a veteran P-51 pilot sum up his generations attitude; give a studly 20-22 year old a +400MPH aircraft, eight .50 caliber machine guns and encourage them to go forth and raise hell.
    Extrapolate such attitude to a newer generation schooled by older but still s**t-hot veterans. That's the guys taxiing those F-86's.

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    1. Because they're paid to fly, not taxi. Besides, "Time is fuel and fuel is time."

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  3. Can you believe the unbelievable accomplishment of the P-51 and the F-86 coming from the same company, almost back to back....

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  4. Then you give those pilots a plane that flys in excess of 500 mph machine guns and no adult supervision. What could go wrong

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    1. They were kept in check by one simple sentence from the squadron CO. "You screw this up and you'll never fly again.".

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  5. My Dad built F-86's back in the day. He loved it.

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  6. Saw one fly at the Oshkosh air show. very impressive!

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