North American F-86 Sabre
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Airfix F-86F-40 modified to Sabre Mk. 6 and the Golden Hawks for F-86 Sabre Group Build
The Airplane:
The Canadair Sabre series was built by Canadair under licence from North American Aviation. Sabres were produced until 1958 and used primarily by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) until replaced with the Canadair CF-104 in [...]
Review: 1/48 Academy F-86F "Paper Tiger"
The F-86F was developed as a result of the combat experience over Korea against the MiG-15, which had shown that the F-86A and F-86E were outperformed by the Soviet fighter at high altitude. Appearing in Korea in the summer of 1952, the [...]
Oh Happy, Happy, Happy Day! A 1/48 F-86A!!!
Clear Prop will officially announce the release of a 1/48 F-86A at the Moson Model Show this coming weekend. From design information made public,the kit will ultimately be released in multiple versions.
OH HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DAY!
Clear Prop [...]
North American F-86D in 1/48 by Revell
Hi Folks!
I just joint this community and thought I'd share one of my recent builds, the North American F-86D in 1/48 by Revell. It is the bir of
Capt. A. G. Limpantsis
445th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
Geiger AFB; Wa USA
December [...]
Major Erich Hartmann Commodore of the German Air Force Fighter Squadron 71 “Richthofen” 1961
The F-86 Sabers were the successors to the U.S. Air Forces legendary P-51 Mustangs and their first jet-powered fighter aircraft. The XP-86 prototype first flew on October 1, 1947. The first production version, the F-86A, was armed with six [...]
KOREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR - 1/48 Hasegawa F-86E-5(Can) – Major John Bolt, USMC
The F-86 Sabre was the first really successful US jet fighter, with 9,800 Sabres produced between 1949-60 in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy and Australia.
The F-86A was capable of supersonic flight in a dive, though the airplane was [...]
Monogram F-86 Sabre
This kit was in a shrink wrapped box with a $2.99 price sticker on it. The box was dated 1976. The kit was in great condition, the old decals looked perfect. I also had a new set of Warbird Decal’s F-86 common stencils & markings [...]
Airfix Hasegawa F-86F-40
During the Korean War, the F-86 Sabre had been outperformed by the MiG-15 with regard to altitude performance. The MiG’s operational ceiling of 50,000 feet allowed the Soviet fighters to almost always use an altitude advantage when [...]
1/48 F-86K Sabre Dog
This is the "MustHave!" models F-86K. Basically "MustHave!" models took the complete 1/48 Revell/Monogram F-86D Sabre Dog kit and simply added a completely new tooled "F-86K" fuselage. They also added a [...]
Hasegawa 1/32 F-86E(M) Hellenic Air Force
The North American F-86 Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept-wing fighter that could counter the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 in high-speed dogfights in the skies of the Korean War (1950–1953), fighting some of the earliest [...]
