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Originally Posted by Don Plumley
Great Pics! Thanks so much for sharing.
Love the Sabre Jet and Mustang - always my favorites. Love old warbirds...
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Actually, North American started with their Mustang when they designed the Sabre. Modified the fuselege but the first test flights, the Sabre had Mustang wings and tail.
Also, the first Navy version of the Sabre was the Fury, which also had Mustang wings, tail, canopy, etc. They were worried about using the swept wings and being able to land slow enought to land on a carrier.
Meanwhile they were working on the swept wings using info from the early German WWII jets (ME-262) and the Sabre ended up with swept wings.
I've also read that the MiG was a superior plane that did not have pilots equivalent to ours (except for some of the Russian pilots).