#north american f-100 super sabre

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The North American F-100 Super Sabre.

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Advisory years (1961 - 1965) by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: 1964 – F-100 Super Sabre airplanes lined up, Vietnam war.

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North American F-100 Super Sabre

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North American F-100 Super Sabre, Fighter, built by North American, in 1954, for the United States

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The Thunderbirds are the USAF's stunt demonstration team.  They are so cool; the stunts they do (flying upside down, flying in super tight formation, flying so super close to one another) are absolutely insane.  You can't see in the pictures, but each aircraft is painted with the image of a thunderbird on its belly, which looks so cool up in the air.  

The aircraft on top is a North American F-100D Super Sabre used by the Thunderbirds from 1964-1968.  According to Wikipedia, the Thunderbirds used to use these aircraft to create sonic booms with the permission of the air show sponsor; this practice ended when the FAA banned supersonic flight over the continental United States.  As per the NMUSAF website, "The F-100 was the world's first production airplane capable of flying faster than the speed of sound in level flight (760 mph)."

The aircraft underneath is a General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon used by the Thunderbirds from 1982-1992.  The Thunderbirds now use F-16Cs (plus two F-16Ds, which is the same as the C but with two seats instead of one).  

Here's a video of the Thunderbirds performing at an air show in 2022; time stamps of note include 4:30, 6:15, 6:40, 7:46, 8:35, 9:20, 13:50, 17:40, 20:55.  Or you can watch the entire video because the whole thing is super cool :D

If you ever get to see the Thunderbirds (or go to an air show) in person, remember to bring ear plugs.  They are loud.

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Events 6.30 (after 1930)

1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country. 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners. 1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood. 1960 – Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). 1963 – Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo. 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God. 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system. 1973 – Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total eclipse observation. 1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins. 1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. 1989 – A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. 1990 – East and West Germany merge their economies. 1994 – During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board. 2007 – A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before. 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash. 2013 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona. 2013 – Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. 2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths. 2019 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). 2021 – The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30. 2023 – A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.

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F-100 Súper SableNASA

El F-100 Super Sabre fue un cazabombardero monomotor de reacción fabricado por la compañía estadounidense North American Aviation durante los años 1950 a partir del North American F-86 Sabre. Fue el primer caza de producción en superar la barrera del sonido en vuelo horizontal, y fue uno de los aviones más rápidos y potentes de su época. E-1366La pared del hangar de la Estación de Vuelo de Alta…

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F-100 Units of USAFE

Another new publication from Fonthill Media: the F-100 Units of USAFE written by Doug Gordon is the story of the iconic F-100 Super Sabre and its pilots flown in Europe The North American F-100 Super Sabre, known as the ‘Hun’, served with the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) for sixteen years with the primary mission to deliver tactical nuclear weapons on targets in the Soviet Union…

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North american F-100 "The Hun' Super Sabre | Full Documentary

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Vietnam war by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: 1960s – A KB-29 refueling two F-100 Super Sabre’s and an RF-101 Voodoo. USAF Photo

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North American F-100 Super Sabre USAF

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North American Aviation's entry in a United States Air Force tactical fighter-bomber design competition of the 1950s, based on the F-100 Super Sabre. It incorporated many innovations and radical design features, notably the over-fuselage air intakes. The competition was eventually won by the Republic F-105 Thunderchief.

North American F-107A

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Cutaway of the proposed North American F-100B (NA-211). This design eventually led to the F-107A Ultra Sabre.

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"The Golden Age of Test Flight" by Mike Machat.

Aircraft tested at the Edwards Air Force Base.

Top row: Bell X-1, Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, Bell X-2, North American X-15, Space Shuttle Enterprise.

Second Row: Lockheed P-80 or T-33 Shooting Star, Boeing B-29 Super Fortress, North American F-86 Sabre, Boeing B-50 Super Fortress, North American F-100 Super Sabre, Boeing NB-52 Stratofortress, Northrop T-38 Talon, Boeing 747-100SR Mothership.

Third Row: Bell X-5, Douglas X-3 Stiletto, North American X-10, Northrop X-4 Bantam, Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing, North American XB-70A Valkyrie.

Fourth Row: Ryan X-13 Vertijet, Convair XFY Pogo, Lockheed NF-105 Starfighter, Martin X-24B, Piasecki H-21 Shawnee.

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F-100 Super Sabre + formation flying

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North American F-100C Super Sabre Thompson Trophy & Bendix Trophy winner - 1955.