Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom Collins put the MiG-15 through its paces ... the North American F-86 Sabre, which in the film joins up with Yeager for part ...
On the afternoon of Friday the 13th, 48 F-86 Sabre ... forced his Sabre jet through the sound barrier. From a distance of 800.ft., he fired a long burst of his guns. The MIG started coming apart.