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#10, RE: BPGD: F-86F-1000 Cosmo Sabre
Posted by Wedge on Dec-03-08 at 11:32 AM
In response to message #9
>Niiiiice.
>
>Just out of curiosity, was there any particular reason why you went
>for the Sabre rather than the Super Sabre?

Because the F-86 was an unmatched, era-defining icon and the F-100 was, at the end of the day, a fuel-hungry pig that the USAF eventually swept under the rug? There's at least one mention in Yeager's autobiography about the F-100, and I'm quoting loosely here, being such an unstable gun platform that he could hit a B-36 from wingtip to wingtip in a single pull of the trigger.

Don't get me wrong, I love how the F-100 *looks,* but there's several other Century fighters that would probably come before the Hun in the Retrotech line. :)


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