Warbird Information Exchange

I think that would look awesome - and in fact my Stepdad was crewchief for Dale Snodgrass on the "Skyblazers" F-86 for 10+ years and I traveled with them during the 2002 airshow season... Dale always talked about how cool it would be to have a Sabre painted in a cool FJ Fury scheme since he was a Navy guy... Of coarse he couldn't do that to the Skyblazer since the Air Force Heritage program was a big part of his airshow bookings... I do believe though that if the timing and money would have right that he would have acquired a second airframe to paint up Navy... Oh well - woulda, coulda, shoulda...
Mike

Well on the basis that Sabres and Furys are not the same thing, it would be akin to painting a Spitfire in a P-51 colour scheme!

There are huuuuundreds of day-fighter colour schemes to go through before you get to the pastiche of a Fury scheme on a Sabre!

...and none of them have yellow ID bands.

Thanks for today's chuckle. I vote for a NAVY/NATC scheme.

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Rivet counting maybe, but why choose an F-86E with cannons when your airworthy Sabre won't be that either? OK, this time it would be more like painting a Spitfire in a Hurricane colour scheme, but still a pastiche IMHO. If you want a genuine navy blue colour scheme, then one of the Albrook F-86E/Fs would at least be closer to accurate.

Or get an FJ-3 flying! Put me down for that

Perfect time, then, to remake The Hunters.

Well....in some ways yes and some no.

For the original movie the Air Force put up more than an entire squadron of F-86's for the camera - you can see an entire squadron in the air pulling contrails, in the film:



And you got lots of shots of operational F-86's taxiing and taking off.

And speaking of F-84's posing as Migs, you also see a squadron of F-84 (Migs) though only 4 of them are painted as Migs:



Those days are over - we'll never see that number of real 1950's jets in the air like that again.
Though perhaps some of that footage could be re-used.

And there were several live shots taken from the ground - like in the final dogfight - of an F-84 and F-86 dueling. that could be done of course.

Some things could be done better than the 1958 movie:

There were double exposures showing a merge of opposing planes. And many "air combat" shots were done in the studio with back projection.

But I guess the real question would be:

Would the remake be true to the original book - a real downer book. Something like the 1958 movie?

Or something else entirely?

I saw this movie as a kid and it stuck with me ever since. I own a copy of it. It's one of my all time favorite movies.

I even painted the helmet that I use for Flight test and aerobatics, in the same pattern as the main character:



Of course it has a love story which is a little hard to believe, but it does set up a serious philosophical issue quite nicely.

Yes, people will nitpick, but look at 3 view drawings of the F-84F and MiG-15...
They share the same configuration: Nose intake, swept mid-mounted wings, cruciform tail...really pretty close.

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Matt

First flyable F-86 I’ve seen with replica guns. Contrasts quite a bit with the glass cockpit! Awesome looking restoration...the more Sabres in the air, the better!

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I'm looking for that buried Corsair(s) that I can dig up, pressure wash, and fly!