F-86 Sabre Jet #21993 - Oshkosh, WI
N 43° 58.857 W 088° 34.882
16T E 373174 N 4870972
This F-86 Sabre Jet is located at the corner of Poberezny Rd. and Waukau Ave in Oshkosh, WI. It is part of the EAA Airventure Museum.
Waymark Code: WM573E
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2008
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"The North American Aviation F-86 Sabre (sometimes called the Sabrejet) was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. The Sabre is best known for its Korean War role where it was pitted against the Soviet MiG-15 and obtained UN air superiority. Although developed in the late 1940s and outdated by the end of the 1950s, the Sabre proved adaptable and continued as a front line fighter in air forces until the last active front line examples were retired by the Bolivian Air Force in 1994.
The F-86A set its first official world speed record of 570 mph (920 km/h) in September 1948.
Several people involved with the development of the F-86, including the chief aerodynamicist for the project and one of its other test pilots, claimed that North American test pilot George Welch had broken the sound barrier in a dive with the XP-86 while on a test flight 1 October 1947. (Chuck Yeager went supersonic on 14 October 1947 in the rocket powered Bell X-1, the first aircraft to sustain supersonic speeds in level flight, making it the first "true" supersonic aircraft.)
On 18 May 1953, Jacqueline Cochran flying a Canadian-built F-86E alongside Chuck Yeager, became the first woman to break the sound barrier."