Korean War's most Successful yet forgotten Interceptor: The F86D 'Sabre Dog'

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North American Aviation's P 51 Mustang was one of the first aircraft to engage the enemy during WWII. North American submitted their own jet fighter to the US Navy and Army Air Forces by mid-1944, in response to the Third Reich's debut of the Messerschmitt Me 262. However, jet-powered aircraft did not appear until many years later. After the war, North American used the Messerschmitt Me 262's German footprints to enhance its XP86 design, which had been rejected by the armed forces. President Harry S Truman ordered a study recommending that the air forces be modernised with 8,000 cutting-edge aeroplanes, allowing North American to continue developing its jet aircraft. In 1947, the redesigned XP 86 took to the skies for the first time, dazzling pilots with its cutting-edge capabilities. The first 30 aircraft, codenamed F 86, were delivered the next year. It was the first US aircraft to breach the sound barrier in April.

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[soulstrafer]

I'm leaning more to the cannon-armed variant of this plane, but that's just me :)

Awesome content, please keep them coming

[wolfgangholtzclaw]

It was not forgotten, all the pilots, crewman, and Americans who remembered the F-86 have basically died. I remember looking up as a young Infantryman in Korea and seeing the Korea Air Force flying over in them, but I am 68 yars old. How about the forgotten musket, or the forgotten flint knife???