the North American F-86 Sabre, of which 9,860 were produced during the 1940s and 1950s. Jet technology first emerged out of World War II, where the German Luftwaffe was busy innovating faster ...

Unlike, say, the F-86 Sabre of the Korean War or the F-4 Phantom ... for the duration of its 26 years of service to the West German Luftwaffe, 32 percent of these planes were lost.

On the afternoon of Friday the 13th, 48 F-86 Sabre jets took off from airfields ... Baker, who had flown British Spitfires against the Luftwaffe in 1942, was now, at 34, a colonel and commander ...