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- Schmued was employed by North American Aviation for 22 years. During his tenure, Schmued also designed the F-82 and, the other iconic NAA designs, the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre.
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Development. Design. Operational history. Variants. Operators. Surviving aircraft. Specifications (F-86F-40-NA) See also. References. External links. North American F-86 Sabre. The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft.
Edgar O. "Ed" Schmued (Schmüd; 1899–1985) was an Austrian / German-American aircraft designer, famed for his design of the iconic North American P-51 Mustang and, later, the F-86 Sabre while at North American Aviation. He later worked on other aircraft designs as an aviation consultant.
The F-86 Sabre, Hero of the Early Jet Age. America’s first swept-wing fighter won the skies over North Korea.
Introduced in the late 1940s, the F-86 Sabre was originally designed as a response to the emerging Soviet MiG 15 during the early stages of the Cold War. It quickly became one of the most successful and well-regarded jet fighters of its era.
Begun in March 1949, the unarmed prototype, 50-577, first flew on 22 December 1949, piloted by North American test pilot George Welch and was the first U.S. Air Force night fighter design with only a single crewman and a single engine, a J47-GE-17 with afterburner rated at 5,425 lbf (24.1 kN) static thrust.
Nov 12, 2013 · North American F-86 Sabre. F-86 Full Text. With talk of an armistice only weeks away, F-86 pilot Ralph Parr was afraid that the Korean War would be over before he would get into air combat. Flying a routine patrol over the Yalu, Parr spotted a glint of light low against the ground and suspected enemy aircraft. Rolling into a Split-S, Parr dove ...
(U.S. Air Force photo by Ty Greenlees) North American F-86D Sabre. An intelligence warning in 1948 prompted the U.S. Air Force to hurriedly develop an all-weather interceptor. Starting with the basic airframe of its F-86A, North American incorporated two unprecedented concepts into the F-86D (initially designated the F-95).
