Hobby Master – North American F-100D Super Sabre , ’56-3285′ “Pretty Penny” 481 TFS U.S.Air Force , Tan Son Nhut Vietnam AB 1960

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              North American F-100  Super Sabre

North American F-100 Super Sabre byl americký nadzvukový stíhací letoun.Vyvíjen byl od roku 1949 jako nástupce letounů F-86 Sabre se schopností letět nadzvukovou rychlostí ve vodorovném letu. Prototyp vzlétl roku 1953 a 29. října vytvořil rekord 1 215 km/h. Jednalo se o středoplošník, který měl křídla s úhlem šípu 45°.

The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard (ANG) until 1979.

The first of the Century Series of USAF jet fighters, it was the first USAF fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight.The F-100 was designed by North American Aviation as a higher performance follow-on to the F-86 Sabre air superiority fighter.

F-100C

Seventy Model NA-214 and 381 Model NA-217.Additional fuel tanks in the wings, fighter-bomber capability, probe-and-drogue refueling capability, uprated J57-P-21 engine on late production aircraft. First flight: March 1954; 476 built.

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 50 ft (15.2 m)
• Wingspan: 38 ft 9 in (11.81 m)
• Height: 16 ft 2¾ in (4.95 m)
• Wing area: 400 ft² (37 m²)
• Empty weight: 21,000 lb (9,500 kg)
• Loaded weight: 28,847 lb (13,085 kg)
• Max. takeoff weight: 34,832 lb (15,800 kg)
• *Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0130
• Drag area: 5.0 ft² (0.46 m²)
• Aspect ratio: 3.76
• Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney J57-P-21/21A turbojet
  • Dry thrust: 10,200 lbf (45 kN)
  • Thrust with afterburner: 16,000 lbf (71 kN)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 750 kn (864 mph, 1,390 km/h, Mach 1.3)
• Range: 1,733 NM (1,995 mi, 3,210 km)
• Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m)
• Rate of climb: 22,400 ft/min (114 m/s)
• Wing loading: 72.1 lb/ft² (352 kg/m²)
• Thrust/weight: 0.55
• Lift-to-drag ratio: 13.9

Armament

• Guns: 4× 20 mm (0.787 in) Pontiac M39A1 revolver cannon w/ 200 rpg
• Missiles: ** 4× AIM-9 Sidewinder or
  • 2× AGM-12 Bullpup or
  • 2× or 4× LAU-3/A 2.75″ unguided rocket dispenser
• Bombs: 7,040 lb (3,190 kg) of weapons, including
  • Conventional bombs or
  • Special stores:
    • Mark 7 nuclear bomb or
    • Mk 28 nuclear bomb or
    • Mk 38 nuclear bomb or
    • Mk 43 nuclear bomb 

Avionics

• Minneapolis-Honeywell MB-3 automatic pilot
• AN/AJB-1B low-altitude bombing system
• AN/APR-26 rearward radar warning