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F-100D Super Sabre

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The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard (ANG) until 1979. The first of the Century Series of USAF jet fighters, it was the first USAF fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight.The F-100 was designed by North American Aviation as a higher performance follow-on to the F-86 Sabre air superiority fighter.

Vietnam War

On 16 April 1961, six Super Sabres were deployed from Clark Air Base in the Philippines to Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand for air defense purposes; the first F-100s to enter combat in Southeast Asia.[17] From that date until their redeployment in 1971, the F-100s were the longest serving U.S. jet fighter-bomber to fight in the Vietnam War. Serving as MiG combat air patrol escorts for F-105 Thunderchiefs, Misty FACs, and Wild Weasels over North Vietnam, and then relegated to close air support and ground attacks within South Vietnam.

On 18 August 1964, the first F-100D shot down by ground fire, piloted by 1st Lt Colin A. Clarke, of the 428th TFS; Clarke ejected and survived. On 4 April 1965, as escorts protecting F-105s attacking the Thanh Hoa Bridge, F-100 Super Sabres fought the USAF's first air-to-air jet combat duel in the Vietnam War, in which an F-100 piloted by Captain Donald W. Kilgus of the 416th Fighter Squadron shot down a Vietnam People's Air Force MiG-17, using cannon fire, while another fired AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.The surviving North Vietnamese pilot confirmed three of the MiG-17s had been shot down.Although recorded by the U.S. Air Force as a probable kill, this represented the first aerial victory by the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam.However, the small force of four MiG-17s had penetrated the escorting F-100s to claim two F-105s.
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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 33.8ft (10.3m)
  • Length 47.4ft (14.5m)
  • Height 16.6ft (5.1m)
  • Empty Weight 10,067lbs (4,566kg)
  • Loaded Weight 12,504lbs (5,671kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.269
  • Wing Loading 33.9lbs/ft2 (165.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 368.8ft2 (34.3m2)
  • Drag Points 3623

Parts

  • Number of Parts 84
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 374