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Aeroplane Model - North American F-100 Super Sabre
Reg. No: ST 024153
- Summary:
- Aircraft History
The North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre was the result of a company design study for a supersonic fighter to succeed the F-86 which could exceed Mach 1 only in a dive. Approval for a prototype was received in 1951 and the first example flew in 1953, reaching 754.99 miles per hour and setting a new world air speed record. Production models were the F-100A, C, D & F versions using the General Electric J57 engine. During the Vietnam War the USAF operated the F-100C & D models as ground attack aircraft and in the anti-Surface to Air Missile (SAM) role to combat the SA-2 SAM used by North Vietnam. The F-100 also served with the Danish, Turkish, Taiwanese and French air forces. It was withdrawn from USAF service in the 1980s.
Model History
This 1:32 scale model was commissioned by the Museum and built by Mr B.D. Hede in 1957.
| Discipline: | Technology |
More information
| Tagged with: | aeroplanes, fighters, military aircraft, model aeroplanes, scale models |
| Themes this item is part of: | Engineering Collection, Transport Collection |
| Primary Classification: | AIR TRANSPORT |
| Secondary Classification: | Aircraft |
| Tertiary Classification: | model turbo jet aircraft - military |
| Model Scale: | 1:32 |
| Modelmaker: | B. Hede, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1957 |
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