A warplane and its gallant pilots were celebrated over the weekend. The new F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter exhibit at the Military Aviation Preservation Society Air Museum in Green is of both national ...

Initially designed as a supersonic fighter-bomber capable of nuclear delivery, the F-100 Super Sabre symbolized American aviation strength in the Cold War. By the mid-1960s, its shiny aluminum finish ...

The F-100 Super Sabre made her maiden flight on May 25, 1953 — just two months before the Korean Armistice Agreement that halted the conflict in which the original Sabre had proven her mettle — and ...

The F-22 and F-15 can travel at speeds up to and beyond Mach 2.25 and the F-35 can hit speeds of Mach 1.6, yet the first supersonic fighter aircraft emerged as far back as the 1950s with the North ...

On October 14, 1947, an orange-painted Bell X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Though the rocket-powered X-1 was an experimental design, ...