Warbird Information Exchange

Awesome set Mark, one of my favorite planes.
Sooo... How many photos of the TF-86's can you come up with?

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Always looking for P-51D parts.

Pilot in the Edwards F-86 is Major General Fred J Ascani, set speed record in the F-86 in the late forties. Ascani is the one of those who brought Yeager to Edwards from Wright Field.

F-86K Folks:

N.A F-86K S/N AF 56-4123 in NMF prior to delivery to NATO forces c. 1956. Photo Via NARA.

Awaiting being cut-up, not for total scrapping as they were also spares reclaimed. Jim Craik Collection


A said sight Photo by F/O Pat Barrett via Jim Craik Collection

Photo by F/O Pat Barrett via Jim Craik Collection

The F-86, one of my favorites (sorry, not including the D's ) and one I have a bit of a link to.
May be 'my' tail and other pieces are in one of the above pics. -16 years after they were cut up in the UK, I 'rescued' a 439 sqn RCAF tail (as above) still with its wonderful tiger motif from a pile that the aircraft spares company Staravia still had. I donated it to my cadet sqn. and when I called in a few years later was dismayed to find that they had removed all the 'OLD' paint, luckily from only one side. Fast forward 30 years and I inquired if they still had it, with a response of 'what tail ?' Shame its not there anymore.
Still, 20 years after I acquired my first F-86 piece, I came across some parts from these same aircraft still stored by the same company at a different site, I still have the main gear doors and cockpit step from my second acquisition session

Great pics. as usual Mark

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Martin
Wide open & turning left.

No this photo is not of an F-86 (or is it depending on where you focus) it's an F9F-6 of VF-21, but look in the background and you see the first color photo F-86 I posted in this thread and easily one of the very best schemes I've seen. Kind of cool IMHO.


One of three F9F-6 Cougars of Fighter Squadron (VF) 21 that completed the first transcontinental flight in less than four hours pictured at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Brady, Lieutenant W. Rich, and Lieutenant (junior grade) John C. Barrow launched from Naval Air Station (NAS) San Diego, California, and flew a distance of 2,438 miles to NAS Floyd Bennett Field, New York. They conducted aerial refueling over NAS Hutchinson, Kansas. It was an unofficial record in the fact that no official timer was present. Note the markings on the fuselage above the wing highlighting the aircraft's flight. c 1954 Source NMNA archives


And the F-86 you see in the background. Now I know this was at Dayton OH

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Zero Surprise!!...

F-86 Folks:

Good day!

One of the 1st TF-F-86s. FU-228. Place Ukn c. 1950s. Via AEC.

Yep! cool looking buggy!


North American TF-86F Two-place Transonic Trainer (SN 52-5016). (U.S. Air Force photo)


North American TF-86F Two-place Transonic Trainer (SN 52-5016) in flight. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Zero Surprise!!...

Reminds me of those absurdly stretched limos you see every now and then. Ick!

A little item I posted last summer:

Arizona University, 1958.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

I hope you don´t mind me posting a pic of a F-86 (I believe it´s in fact a Canadair CL 13 Mark 5 ?). I took this one of a GAF fighter 2 years ago at the private museum of Mr. Junior located near Hermeskeil. As most planes sit outside, I can not guarantee for the correct paintscheme, as some of the planes were clearly repainted (some hmmm.... not that very correct, to say the least).

Michael



P.S.: Luftwaffe museum Berlin-Gatow:

F-86 - Gorgeous airplane.

And I must say that I've always loved the FU-XXX numbers in big letters on the side. Pity they don't do that any more

As for that one picture of an F-86 labeled "No Info", FU-584, I cannot help much but the screenshots below show that that squadron was used in making the movie called "The Hunters". There was an FU-524 shown taxiing in the movie


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I spent 7 months at the Koon-ni Range in Korea back in the 50's. We handled mostly flights of (4) F-86's. Various targets, 10x10 for the guns, 10x20 on the beach for skip bombing and also a small island out it the sea for bombing up to 1,000 lbs. It was quite an assignment. Just 6 enlisted when I arrive. We had a quonset hut and an two seater outhouse along with a generator for power.

It was quite a place when we held the FEAF meet for 86's.

Here's one of some photos that I took while there.



Here's one of 86's on the line at K-55 Osan.



The 10x20 for skip bombing



and while not from an 86 here's one I took of a simulated A-Bomb drop.

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Jerry
S/Sgt. - USAF Radio Operator '52-'56
C-119 "Flying Boxcar" - Korea & Japan

Volunteer: National Museum of the US Air Force (2007-2016)
LTM 381st Bomb Group Memorial Association

F-86K Folks:

Some 20 km N. of Oslo, in the town of Borgen, Norway this guy managed to exhibit a surplus RNAF F-86K S/N 54-1248. It was quite a saga since he bought it disassembled & then the wife was not 2 happy about having it in the back yard. He has been at it since c. 2005!! Good aluminum there!! Photo via WWW/AEC.