 F86A
- Sabre
The Sabre supports the old saying "What looks
right flies right'. The F-86 was the first operational allied swept
wing jet and is also reputedly the first aeroplane to break the
sound barrier in early October 1947shortly before Captain Charles
'Chuck' Yeager's official sonic boom with the
Bell X-I.
The Sabre was a development of a straight wing
project which was dramatically modified to incorporate swept flying
surfaces based on research findings that came out of Germany at the
end of World War II. . . .  more
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