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Sabre pilot survives deadly power line strike

In 1971, a Sabre fighter tore through hidden power lines above Lamington’s mountains. The pilot’s survival would become one ...
BLOOMINGTON — For a group of about a dozen veterans, maintaining the Prairie Aviation Museum’s F-100 Super Sabre fighter plane is a labor of love. And that’s what they did Labor Day morning as they ...
The McDonnell Douglas Phantom II was one of the most successful and widely used fighter aircraft of the Cold War, and its ...