NORTH AMERICAN F-86 SABRE

Aviation and missile firm North American (USA) has been building aircraft since 1934. During the Second world war, the firm produced about 42 700 aircraft, among which were such well-known cars like a fighter P-51 and b-25.

 

Even during the war, the firm started to build aircraft with a jet engine. The first flight of the new jet fighter F-86 on 1 October 1947. In 1949 he began to enter the United States air force.

 

The new fighter of the firm’s North American, equipped with a jet engine General Electric with a thrust of 2200 kg and armed with six heavy machine guns, could reach speeds of over 1000 km/h.

 

Almost simultaneously with the F-86 close the circuit fighters with swept wings were built in France by the firm Dassault M. D. 450 (1949) in the USSR – MiG-15 (1947) and La-15 (1948). All these machines were, in fact, twins, and aerodynamic configuration, and technical characteristics. Such a coincidence, apparently, was due to the level of development of Sciences such as aerodynamics, strength theory, thermodynamics and gas dynamics.

 

In 1950 started the Korean war, and that jet F-86 SABRE became the main American fighters during these hostilities. As a rule, they were accompanied by groups of bombers b-29 Superfortress in raids on Pyongyang and other North Korean cities. Opposed “sabram” the MiG-15, which not only inferior to the F-86, but in many ways surpassed them.

 

For many years the F-86 SABRE was the standard fighter of the NATO countries; in Canada and Australia these samoloty were produced under license in Italy and Japan organized Assembly production of these machines from American components. Total built more than 8,000 F-86 SABRE.

 

NORTH AMERICAN F-86 SABRE: wingspan 11 300 mm, length 400 mm 11, the engine thrust is 2720 kg, takeoff weight 6520 kg, a maximum speed of 1070 km/h, the ceiling is 14 800 m, armament — six 12.7 mm machine guns.