Squadron Signal - Aircraft In Action 1033 F-86 Sabre.
In 1944, the war in Europe was moving towards culmination. The Atlantic Wall had been breached, Russian forces were approaching German soil, and the Allied Air Forces pounded German cities every day and night. But the Germans did not die easily. They unveiled three weapons of the future - the V-1, V-2, and a jet propelled interceptor - the Me 262. The Me 262 so revolutionized aerial warfare that, if used correctly, it could have halted the allied air offensive. However, decisions at the very top of the German General Staff rendered the Me 262, as a weapons system, practically useless.
The fact that the Germans had been able to produce so advanced a fighter well before similar American projects bore fruit came as a profound jolt to US Army Air Force strategy. The Bell P-59 Airacomet was already flying, and the Lockheed XP-80 was almost ready for testing, but obviously plans had to be made to counter the logical next-generation of German (or if necessary, Russian) jet fighters. In November 1944, North American Aviation initiated a design study for a high performance fighter aircraft, to be powered by a turbojet engine. The design was submitted to Army Air Force Hqtrs. and on May 18, 1945, 10 days after VE Day, a letter contract for three XP-86 aircraft was approved.
Название: F-86 Sabre in Action (Aircraft No.33)
Автор: Larry Davis
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc.
Год издания: 1979
ISBN: 089747032X
Язык: english
Страниц: 50 Pages
Формат: PDF
Размер: 15,8 MB
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