If you ever have the flag raised at full mast, take a picture of it. This sarcastic advice, traded among F-86 Sabre students ...

Most fans of military aviation know that F-86 Sabres in the Korean War were armed with machine guns, while their opponents, ...

The F-86D, however, was an all-weather interceptor with a radar nose, and was armed with rockets instead of machine guns. The F-86K was a D-model with 20-mm machine guns replacing the rockets. In ...

Above the skies of the Korean Peninsula, the F-86 Sabre formed one part of an epic aerial rivalry. The F-86’s counterpart: the MiG-15, an early jet fighter with similar proportions and ...

Now, mind you, the original Sabre jet, i.e. the F-86, was a pretty “super” fighter plane in her own right, though in retrospect her legendary kill ratio against the MiG-15 during the Korean ...

The F-86 Sabre was a natural replacement for the F-80 Shooting Star. First introduced in 1949 for the United States Air Force, the F-86 featured excellent performance for its day, outstanding ...

For instance, the F-86 Sabre (a fighter that flew from 1950 to 1971) flew a total of 5,543,631 hours and sustained 2,449 major incidents for an astounding rate of 44.17 crashes per 100,000 flight ...