F-86 Sabre - Gear down // Clear canopy U.S. Marine Corps Born from a strategic partnership

Born from a strategic partnership between Sud Aviation and Dassault in the late 1950s

Built to meet a 1939 Air Corps request for a new primary trainer

500 -Gs were built by three different manufacturers: Boeing

The Junkers Ju 87 proved to be the most promising design and would be adopted for service

I felt that if we weren't the best

F-86 Sabre - Gear down // Clear canopy U.S. Marine Corps Born from a strategic partnershipF 86 Sabre airplane model. The USAF's first swept wing jet fighter made its initial flight on October 1, 1947. The first production model flew on May 20, 1948, and on September 15, 1948, an F 86A set a new world speed record of 670. 9 mph. Originally designed as a high altitude day fighter, it was subsequently redesigned into an all weather interceptor (F 86D) and a fighter bomber (F 86H). As a day fighter, the airplane saw service in Korea in three