F-86 SABRE : The Operational Record

Jackson, Robert

ISBN 10: 1853104027 / ISBN 13: 9781853104022

Published by Airlife Publishing Ltd, Shrewsbury, 1994

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This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book covers aircraft in U.S. and British / Commonwealth air forces - the RAF only used it for a couple of years until the Hunter came into service. The Australians replaced the 6 x 0.50 machine guns with 2 30mm and the engine with a similar one powering the Hunter. The book also has a chapter on the U.S.N. version the Fury and the supersonic Super Sabre F-100 Lavishly illustrated with rare black and white photographs, some published here for the first time. Ref A6 6.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: F-86 SABRE : The Operational Record
• Publisher: Airlife Publishing Ltd, Shrewsbury
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853104027
• ISBN 13: 9781853104022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

Throughout the 1950s, the distinctive wail of the North American F-86 Sabre was as familiar a sound in the skies of the free world as the crackle of the Rolls-Royce Merlin had been a decade earlier. Most of all, the Sabre is remembered for its air superiority role in the Korean War, when, high over the Yalu River, it tangled with Russia's MiG-15 in the world's first jet-versus-jet combats close to the speed of sound. It was in the cut-and-thrust of high-speed air battle over Korea that the Sabre captured the imagination of the western world, but its contribution to halting the march of communism did not end there. It was the F-86 that gave the fighter pilots of the principal NATO air forces their first taste of high-speed jet flight, and enabled NATO's air power to hold the line in Western Europe at a critical and dangerous phase of the cold war. Across the world, from England to Japan, the Sabre closed the fighter gap that had been widening steadily with the emergence of new generations of Soviet jet fighters. Yet there was nothing mystical about the Sabre. In many respects it was a rudimentary, no-frills design, leaning heavily on wartime German high-speed flight research. It was all the more remarkable, then, that the end product was a fighter that was a true pilot's aeroplane, a joy to fly as well as an efficient war machine. In this book, Robert Jackson charts the operational career of the F-86, from its inception through the embattled skies of Korea to its role as NATO's guardian and after, when it became the fighter workhorse of many Third World nations.