A flight of four F100D Super Sabres of the Air National Guard on the ground prior to a close formation flying display during an open day at Belle Chase Naval airbase in Louisiana.
First flown in 1953, the F-100 Super Sabre was developed from the F-86, and was the world’s first fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Used widely during the Vietnam War, the North American F-100D was the fighter-bomber version of the F-100 interceptor and first entered service in 1956.
The last US F-100 retired in 1979 as the General Dynamics F-16 was phased in. In foreign service, the Royal Danish Air Force and Turkish Air Force F-100s soldiered on until 1982.
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