The furious pace of cold war weapons development ensured the North American F-86 Sabre burned briefly but brightly, ceasing production at the end of 1956, just nine years after George Welch’s ...

Throughout the storied past of Army Air Corps and the U.S. Air Force, many aircraft have laid the foundation for today's fleet of air power. The F-86 Sabre, or SabreJet, is one of the cornerstones ...

Above the skies of the Korean Peninsula, the F-86 Sabre formed one part of an epic aerial rivalry—against the MiG-15, the Soviet Union’s first mass-produced jet. If asked to name the most ...

(According to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Sabre pilots shot down 792 MiGs in Korea, and only 76 Sabres were lost.) Of the dozen or so F-86 pilots in the Classic Jet Aircraft ...