Warbird Information Exchange

WTH..... Why?

Lynn

It didnt sell last year and i guess there trying again

Probably because it is sitting outside in the parking lot receiving very little love, or even respect.

I like that plane. I feel its pain every time I see it.

Does anyone recall this F-86D actually been a flyer? Ive never seen any photos of a warbird F-86D in the air.....

Reading in the text of the ad...I found this statement.

It has been around 14 years since this ac has flown.

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Thing is i dont recall EVER seeing a flying F-86D warbird ever anywhere in the USA... does anyone else recall seeing such a flying Sabre Dog?

Here is the data on the A/C from the Baugher site (http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1952.html)

52-4198/4304 North American F-86D-50-NA Sabre
c/n 190-601/707
4239 (F-86L) to civil registry as N5169W. Seen 2006 outside Frontiers of Flight Museum, Love Field, TX.
Still there in 2008.

I would love to see a Sabre Dog fly!

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Maybe they'll sell the 2 seat F-16 too..........

Mark H
PS: We can wish.....

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Fly safe or you get to meet me .......

You know how on some girls, a nose job can make them from wallflower to pin up? Yeah...whoever at North American decided to give the F-86 a nose job really blew it. Beauty to beast on one fell swoop.

As my brother once said about the Boeing entry in the JSF project...."No self-respecting fighter pilot would ever fly THAT!"

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Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, and I decline......

I want it!

That plane is beeeeyuuuuteeefullll!

I was looking at it last year and wanting it then. But, you know what they say,

"Want in this hand and cr@p in the other, see which one fills up first"


It's a nice dream though. I figured out a whole training plan around that plane that would have me ready to fly it by the time I got it restored, a nice 146th birthday present to myself.

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I've seen this ship in person at Frontiers of Flight. She's a real beauty on the outside, but that has nothing to do with her state of flight-worthiness. I'd sure love to see her in the air (ugly nose and all).

This shot is from 03/16/2007:



Dean the Sabre fan

Heck, it was still there as of the day before yesterday.

I use it to check the settings on my camera, and to see what results I get from different settings.

Though the day before yesterday was just a drive by.

Since is is outside in the parking lot and somewhat ignored, I am tempted to take my 10' ladder there to get some upper perspective.

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And thank God for that!
I thought it was a gorgeous airplane...probably because it was the first fighter-type I ever flew. As usual, it did the job until someting better came along (F-102).
The aforementioned one is technicallya F-86L (basically a D model upgraded). There were 827 produced. They differed not in afterburners as the blurb proclaims(basically the same engine/afterburner) but in electronic improvements...mainly the addition of SAGE Data Link, wing tip extension of 12", and the 6-3 wing. When converted from a D to a L model the Bock number was changed by one digit, i.e. a F-86D-35 became a F-86L-36.
It was a great all-weather airplane...using the radar, you could give yourself a GCA in the soup.
Hugh