9 - F-86 Sabre
Issue 9 - North American F-86 Sabre: Contents
24 March 2011
• The complete history of the famous Korean war swept wing jet fighter
• Exclusive - Adam Tooby full page artwork
Never before published archive photographs
• Plus... Swept wing technology... The XP-86, F-86A and P-86B... Over the Yalu... Sharkmouth Sabres... Flying (and ejecting from) the aircraft... Oddities... & lots more...
Issue 9 - North American F-86 Sabre: Editors Introduction
24 March 2011.
Friends - As I began my second issue as editor, I found myself dealing with an aircraft I thought I knew well, the F-86 Sabre. As time went on however, more and more came to light that I was unsure of or found questionable despite the oft-documented history of the type. This is where I really began to understand the power of friends.
Issue 9 - North American F-86 Sabre: Jock Maitland - RAF Sabre pilot
24 March 2011.
In more recent years, Jock Maitland has been better known as the originator of the Biggin Hill Air Fair, but as a young RAF officer he saw action in various places, including the Korean War. François Prins has the story.
Issue 9 - North American F-86 Sabre: Swept wing technology
24 March 2011.
It was mainly German aeronautical engineers who pioneered the swept wing for aircraft, says François Prins.
Current Issue: Lockheed P-38 Lightning
On January 27, 1939, Lockheed test pilot Ben Kelsey took the prototype XP-38 Lightning into the air for the first time. The big, twin-engined, twin-boomed fighter was to become one of the most easily identifiable fighters of the Second World War, and was to be the only US fighter aircraft to remain in production throughout the conflict. Its unusual design had a number of advantages. The guns, being grouped close together in the nose, gave the P-38 a tremendous concentration of firepower. The tricycle undercarriage made ground handling simple when compared with the tailwheel designs common to the period. The P-38 was used across the world, undertaking long range fighter escort, fighter-bomber and reconnaissance missions in Europe as well as across the Pacific and Far East.
This issue of Aviation Classics tells the whole story of this ground breaking aircraft, as well as the people behind the development and operational success of this beautiful machine.
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• Next issue on sale: 30th March 2012
