Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:55 am
WTH..... Why?
Lynn
Lynn
Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:04 am
It didnt sell last year and i guess there trying again
Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:04 am
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.
I like that plane. I feel its pain every time I see it.
Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:07 am
Does anyone recall this F-86D actually been a flyer? Ive never seen any photos of a warbird F-86D in the air.....
Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:38 am
Reading in the text of the ad...I found this statement.
It has been around 14 years since this ac has flown.
It has been around 14 years since this ac has flown.
Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:42 am
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?
Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:58 am
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.
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.
Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:02 am
I would love to see a Sabre Dog fly! 
Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:03 am
Maybe they'll sell the 2 seat F-16 too..........
Mark H
PS: We can wish.....
Mark H
PS: We can wish.....
Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:15 am
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!"
As my brother once said about the Boeing entry in the JSF project...."No self-respecting fighter pilot would ever fly THAT!"
Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:25 am
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.
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.
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:17 pm
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
This shot is from 03/16/2007:
Dean the Sabre fan
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Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:53 pm
Holedigger wrote: Still there in 2008.
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.
Sabredog
Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:29 pm
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
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