North American F-86H Sabre

[lacrossedart]

Hello, again aviation friends and fiends, I'm posting the flight manual for the F-86H Sabre. This model is notable for being the only member of the USAF F-86 series that wasn't powered by the GE J47 engine but rather the GE J73. Since the J73 was somewhat larger, the fuselage was enlarged by 14 inches and at the same time the dihedral on the horizontal stabilizer seen in the A, E, and F models was eliminated and a clamshell canopy installed instead of the sliding version seen on the earlier F-86's. Late model H Sabres had the six 50 caliber machine guns replaced by four 20mm cannons, making these one of only two versions of the Sabre so armed, the other was the F-86K, a radar-nosed version that saw only limited service with the USAF. Most were built under license by Fiat in Italy for assorted European air forces in NATO. In addition to a large array of conventional external stores, the H was also capable of carrying a single Mark 7 or Mark 12 nuclear weapon under the port wing. I apologize for the lack of performance data, however at the time this handbook was published it was still classified. View attachment 242669View attachment 242670View attachment 242671

 

[vikingBerserker]

Thanks!

 

[sandokan]

Great!

 

[mikec1]

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Greetings Ken, Guys, Gals;


A very nice looking aircraft ............. Nice, Manual ...... ......

Thanks Ken, have a good one,


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[lacrossedart]

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Greetings Ken, Guys, Gals;


A very nice looking aircraft ............. Nice, Manual ...... ......

Thanks Ken, have a good one,


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Thanks, Mike, hope you enjoy it. I redid the F-89 manual with pdfsam and it came out in three parts rather than eight, if you run into Sandokan, let him know. Have a good one!

 

[Crimea_River]

Links in the first post do not work.

 

[Wurger]

It is the same like in his another post. It looks llike all his attachment was missing.

 

[Joe Broady]

"In late April 1965, the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nevada, conducted an evaluation to determine 'the most suitable offensive and defensive maneuvers' to defeat MiG-15/17-type aircraft. Lacking any flyable MiGs, the air force used five North American F-86H Sabres provided by the Maryland and New York Air National Guards. The school conducted evaluations against F-100Ds, F-104Cs, F-105Ds and F-4Cs at altitudes between 24,000 and 41,000 feet with no attempt to define lower-level tactics based on safety concerns, despite expecting most encounters to take place at lower altitudes. In general, the evaluation showed any of the American aircraft, when attacked from the rear, should accelerate at maximum power and escape at supersonic speeds rather than trying to defend."

Dennis Jenkins, "Thunderchief: The Complete History of Republic's F-105," 2018.

 

[eagledad]

Gentlemen

The report.

FYI

Eagledad

 

[WARSPITER]

Eric Brown's favourite jet fighter.

 

[ThomasP]

It is interesting how history repeats itself.

Just pre-war, the prototype F4F (monoplane) and the F2A were test flown against the F3F in mock dogfights. There is no question that the F4F and F2A were faster (both could do over 300 mph vs the F3F at ~255 mph) and hence could force or avoid a fight if whey wanted to when aware of the enemy (at least for the most part), but it was found that the only way for the monoplanes to reliably survive the fight was to leave the area after the initial attack.