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 ...

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 ...

O n this day in aviation history, 72 years ago-May 25, 1953-the North American F-100 Super Sabre took to the skies for the first time. The maiden flight was conducted by North American Aviation's ...

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 ...

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. This gave it a maximum speed of 926.6 mph — faster than ...

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.

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 ...

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.

During his two tours in Vietnam, the command pilot accrued 385 combat hours in an F-100D Super Sabre. In mid-July 1965, Jefferson City native Don D. Pittman arrived at Bien Hoa Air Base, ...

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.

Description: Glendale is working to improve the northern half of Harry Bonsall Park, home to the city's F-100D Super Sabre Air Force jet display. More than a century ago, the area was home to a ...