F-100 D Taking Flight at Air Power Park
F-100 D Taking Flight at Air Power Park
Photo via Hampton History Museum
Improvements continue at Air Power Park. The F-100 Super Sabre was hoisted and moved today to a temporary platform while its new, elevated concrete platform is readied. The move is part of Phase III of the City’s nearly $2 million renovation of the park, partly funded by a Defense Department, Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation grant.
In 2018, the city embarked on a project to rejuvenate the city’s iconic Air Power Park over five to six years. Aircraft restoration was completed in 2019. In 2020, a drainage plan was developed and the park entrance was improved. Remounting of all the aircraft at Air Power Park is expected to be completed by July.
(This article first appeared in 2019.)
In September 2019, the Air Force Assistant Secretary for technology acquisitions Will Roper called for a new “Century Series” of jet fighters.
He was referring to six U.S. jet fighters rapidly introduced into service between 1954 and 1959 that brought the U.S. Air Force into an era of supersonic jet fighter operations. They later received “Century” appellation due to receiving the designations F-100 through F-106.
Roper wants a faster acquisition process that could churn out new warplanes every four years. That’s understandable. Today’s process is so ponderous that major programs like the F-35 stealth fighter take multiple decades to enter service, leading to outrageous cost overruns and program cancelations, and systems that no longer meet U.S. operational needs when they finally enter service.
The plane saw service until 1980.
Here s What You Need to Know: America’s first supersonic jet did not excel as a fighter and had beastly accident rate.
On October 14, 1947, an orange-painted Bell X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Though the rocket-powered X-1 was an experimental design, it followed that improving jet engine technology would make a supersonic fighter possible as well.
On its own initiative, the North American firm took a crack at evolving the F-86 Sabre, the top U.S. fighter of the Korean War, into a supersonic design. The Sabre had wings swept back 35 degrees for better high-speed performance and a large intake in its nose. The F-100 ‘Super’ Sabre’s wings were swept even further to 45 degrees, and its nose-intake distinctively tapered into a flattened elliptical shape. The first of the ‘Century Series’ of advanced 50’s-era fighters, the F-100 was nicknamed the ‘Hun’ as an abbreviat
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