North American F-100 Super Sabre By David A. Anderton
Publisher: Osprey Publishing 1987 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0850456222 | PDF | 34 MB



The North American F-ioo Super Sabre—the Hun, familiarly—was the first supersonic aircraft in the inventory of the United States Air Force. Designed for an air superiority mission, it was the first of the Century series, a group of aircraft developed for the US AF as fighters, interceptors, and fighter-bombers.
It originated in a time-honoured, evolutionary manner, within the NAA organization. Company engineers studied ways to modify the F-86 Sabre, then barely out of flight test, to gain speed performance. The basic features of the Sabre—its sweptback wing and tail, nose inlet with straight-through flow to a single jet engine, power control systems—held the potential for a new layout using updated technology. Those potentials coalesced, and led to the first of a new generation of combat aircraft capable of supersonic speeds.
The F-ioo was off to a brilliant start when unpredictable problems suddenly stopped the pro*gramme dead in its tracks. The losses of several early aircraft and their pilots in rapid succession, including the ninth F-iooA with North American's chief test pilot George Welch, trigged an investigation that was thorough and, finally, fruitful.
The Super Sabre was not welcome at first in the Air Force. The F- 100A day fighters were in active service a relatively short time before being transferred to Air National Guard units which were, by long tradition and standard practice, equipped with the castoff aircraft of the active forces. The later F-iooC was more acceptable to the US AF, bur only because it was capable of fighter-bomber missions. And in that role of an air-to-ground weapon, the Super Sabre finally came into its own.

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