The F-100D (company design numbers NA-223, -224, -235, and -245) was an improved version of the F-100C fighter-bomber. It was also the most widely produced version of the Super Sabre, over 1200 were ...

On this day in aviation history - May 25, 1953 - the North American F-100 Super Sabre made its first flight, breaking the sound barrier in level flight and ushering in a new era of supersonic jet ...

Flying at 910 MPH with six hardpoints for bombs, napalm, and rockets, the D-model was built for speed, but forced into brutal close air support where every mission meant skimming treetops under enemy ...

The F-100D Super Sabre was built with a Pratt & Whitney J57-P-21 engine that produced 16,000 lbs. of thrust with the afterburner engaged.

The Super Sabre was again refined in the definitive F-100D model (1,274 built), which further enlarged the tail and wing, and eventually included a radar warning receiver, a seventh underbelly ...

During his two tours in Vietnam, the command pilot accrued 385 combat hours in an F-100D Super Sabre.

The Super Sabre was again refined in the definitive F-100D model (1,274 built), which further enlarged the tail and wing, and eventually included a radar warning receiver, a seventh underbelly ...

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.

On Monday, I had a rendezvous with the giddy, playful days of my youth, as I clambered up a ladder and into the cockpit of an F-100D Super Sabre fighter jet at the Palm Springs Air Museum.

A North American F-100D Super Sabre drops a napalm bomb near Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, 1967. U.S. Air Force Plunging to make a Mekong Delta strafing run, the pilot of a North American F-100D Super ...

The second largest Air Force museum in the country hosted a dedication ceremony for the F-100D Super Sabre, the first USAF fighter to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight.