North American F-100D Super Sabre The first production aircraft capable of Mach 1 in level flight, the F-100 was largely based on North American’s F-86 Sabre, the MiG-killing star of the Korean War.

The furious pace of cold war weapons development ensured the North American F-86 Sabre burned briefly but brightly, ceasing production at the end of 1956, just nine years after George Welch’s ...