On the F-100 Super Sabre

[Ben]

Interesting article on the F-100. Two standouts to me were the fuel delivery system and the "getting out of the way of our own bombs" thing. Click the link to the footage for the latter. That whole video was pretty interesting.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-100-super-sabre-was-air-force%E2%80%99s-first-supersonic-jet-30767

Tangent: Links to The National Interest have been popping up a lot in my Google News feed. While their political articles seem to lean either "never Trump RINO" or commie, I can't be sure, their military tech and history articles have all been interesting and relatively unbiased from what I've seen.

[TommyGunn]

Interesting old-timey jet.   I think the "fuel delivery system" is pretty much how afterburners work on jet fighters everywhere.
I always liked those old Century Series fighters.  They had a certain elegance.

How did "Phantom" get in the thread title?   The Phantom was the later F-4,  a very different jet.

[Ben]

How did "Phantom" get in the thread title?   The Phantom was the later F-4,  a very different jet.

Because I have a bad habit of posting first thing in the morning before coffee. Fixed. :)

[RocketMan]

I was in Portland last week visiting family and took my youngest son to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville.  They've got a nice example of an F-100 parked inside. There are also an F-89 Scorpion and an F4D Skyray in NASA livery awaiting restoration out in the back parking lot.

[French G.]

Enjoyed the read, thanks. Always like the hun, pretty plane. The fast FAC thing is interesting, it is about like clockwork that military aviation decides that single seat planes can do it all. At least once a generation. I was around at the end of the F-14s life and for Bosnia and Iraq some genius cooked up the "BombCat." First started as a FAC with the  backseat running a laser targeting pod for the F-18s. Then evolved into realizing a plane with 20k pound fuel capacity and a bunch of hardpoints made quite a bomber.

[Devonai]

We used to have 'em at my base.  This airframe is one of the static displays near our main gate.