The furious pace of cold war weapons development ensured the North American F-86 Sabre burned briefly but ... In 1952, the F-86D would improve upon that with a 698-mph run before becoming the ...

Erik Hildebrandt Dominant in dogfights more than a half-century ago, the North American F-86 Sabre reigned long before fighters were designed to be so twitchy that pilots needed computers to fly them.