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Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Golfer on January 22, 2007, 02:18:33 PM
http://airshowbuzz.com/videos/index.php?id=5

Ed Shipley (on wing) and Dale "Snort" Snodgrass (in lead) perform a "Heritage Flight" and "Dueling Sabres" F86 formation acro routine at the 2005 NAS Oceana Air Show.
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: eagl on January 22, 2007, 03:02:42 PM
Those are absolutely beautiful aircraft.  It's one of the planes I always wanted to fly.  I doubt I'll get a chance but who knows, maybe someday...
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Debonair on January 22, 2007, 03:09:33 PM
iirc there r a place in CA that will do dual in a MiG-15 or 17, but F-86s are historic (:O OMG VVS = PWNT!!!:aok :aok :lol), so i bet u wont find that available without $2million to buy & fly your own.
i can get u some time in a shark mouthed eraly '70s C-150
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: eagl on January 22, 2007, 03:12:44 PM
I already have about 100 hours in 150s, 152s, and 172s, and another 800ish hours in another (slightly faster and significantly louder) cessna, so I'll pass on the C-150 offer.  But thanks anyhow :)
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: AquaShrimp on January 22, 2007, 04:56:11 PM
But it didnt show Snodgrass's patented no-wheels landing :(
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Mustaine on January 22, 2007, 05:01:40 PM
which was the 86 that crashed last year? it was supposed to be at the EAA fly-in IIRC and crashed 1 month before...

the other year there they had a mock fight between some jets, i thought maybe f-86 and some mig version, it was a remake of an actual historic dogfight or something, some guy when 1on 2 with the 86 and cleaned their clocks or something but i am fuzzy on the details.

was awesome to watch. :aok
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: LePaul on January 22, 2007, 05:23:40 PM
I recall reading one crashing last year, but I dont know if it was one of those.  I'd have to search thru aero-news to find it.
Title: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20060725X01009&ntsbno=ATL06LA111&akey=1
Post by: Debonair on January 22, 2007, 05:46:56 PM
here is the only 1 ntsb search finds http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20060725X01009&ntsbno=ATL06LA111&akey=1 (http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20060725X01009&ntsbno=ATL06LA111&akey=1)
Title: Re: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20060725X01009&ntsbno=ATL06LA111&akey=1
Post by: Mustaine on January 22, 2007, 06:07:27 PM
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Originally posted by Debonair
here is the only 1 ntsb search finds http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20060725X01009&ntsbno=ATL06LA111&akey=1 (http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20060725X01009&ntsbno=ATL06LA111&akey=1)  
thats the one :(
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: rpm on January 23, 2007, 12:27:24 AM
I remember watching a show on the old Discovery Wings about celebrity pilots. Michael Dorn, Lt. Worf on Star Trek TNG, owns an F-86. He called it the ultimate Hot Rod.
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Debonair on January 23, 2007, 12:32:57 AM
i thought worf had a T-33
i want a T-33!!!!!11
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: rpm on January 23, 2007, 12:50:26 AM
They showed an F-86 and an old Jetstar he owns and flies.
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Debonair on January 23, 2007, 12:57:39 AM
i want those also
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Hap on January 23, 2007, 01:40:14 AM
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Originally posted by Debonair
iirc there r a place in CA that will do dual in a MiG-15 or 17, but F-86s are historic (:O OMG VVS = PWNT!!!:aok :aok :lol), so i bet u wont find that available without $2million to buy & fly your own.
i can get u some time in a shark mouthed eraly '70s C-150


I have no clue what that means.  I think it is a good thing.



hap
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Hornet33 on January 23, 2007, 05:55:38 AM
I was at that airshow. Was awsome to see them fly in person.:aok
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: B@tfinkV on January 23, 2007, 09:04:25 AM
seriously talented formation flying there.


what a beautifull aircraft
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Boroda on January 23, 2007, 02:05:30 PM
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Originally posted by Debonair
(:O OMG VVS = PWNT!!!:aok :aok :lol)


I don't think I'll agree with this point ov view ;)
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Cthulhu on January 23, 2007, 04:00:45 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Debonair
i thought worf had a T-33
i want a T-33!!!!!11


It was a T-33.
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Gunslinger on January 23, 2007, 08:05:53 PM
DREWWLLLL! (http://airshowbuzz.com/videos/index.php?id=6)


anyone know how much this usually runs?
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Debonair on January 24, 2007, 12:27:55 AM
iirc dual in the TP-51 is $3000/hr...and i was looking on controller.com yesterday & was wrong about F-86 prices.
there are two for sale, F-86Es,  $259k & &250k
Mig-21 is $120k
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Rino on January 24, 2007, 12:00:27 PM
I've seen Shipley do his P-51 routine but
haven't gotten the chance to see the Sabres yet.

     The odd thing for me is that I never realized how much smaller the 86
was than the F4.  I actually saw a pair of target towing F-86s while on TDY
to Tyndall in 83, but our Phantoms were a long way off, so tough to
compare.
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Rino on January 24, 2007, 12:03:08 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Debonair
iirc there r a place in CA that will do dual in a MiG-15 or 17, but F-86s are historic (:O OMG VVS = PWNT!!!:aok :aok :lol), so i bet u wont find that available without $2million to buy & fly your own.
i can get u some time in a shark mouthed eraly '70s C-150


     No offense, but I got a chance to get a close look at an ex-Indian
Mig-21 and it made the F-4 look like the Concorde!  What amazed me
was that Tumanski was able to make an engine to get that thing to do
Mach 2 :D
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Cthulhu on January 24, 2007, 03:33:09 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Rino
No offense, but I got a chance to get a close look at an ex-Indian
Mig-21 and it made the F-4 look like the Concorde!  What amazed me
was that Tumanski was able to make an engine to get that thing to do
Mach 2 :D


This is true of most Russian aircraft, even the newer ones. Not to slam their designers, because their engineering is generally top notch, it's just that their manufacturing capabilities tend to lag behind the west. They usually have lower quality material and components to work with.

And as far as their engines go, historically the consensus was that they weren't terribly reliable. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them have MTBF's comparable to a top-fuel dragster. :D    The massive Tumanski's back in the old Mig-25 come to mind. Look at them wrong, and those things would self-destruct.
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: 007Rusty on January 24, 2007, 04:04:13 PM
cool vid.  :aok
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: midnight Target on January 24, 2007, 04:10:18 PM
Every year the chino PoF Airshow has a F-86 vs. Mig-15 mock duel. Very fun to watch.
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Sabre on January 24, 2007, 04:31:44 PM
Who wants to duel me? Put em up!  I'll fight ya with one paw tied behind my back!  I'll fight ya with my eyes closed!:mad: I'll...

Oh; never mind.:aok
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Boroda on January 25, 2007, 02:03:11 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Cthulhu
This is true of most Russian aircraft, even the newer ones. Not to slam their designers, because their engineering is generally top notch, it's just that their manufacturing capabilities tend to lag behind the west. They usually have lower quality material and components to work with.

And as far as their engines go, historically the consensus was that they weren't terribly reliable. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them have MTBF's comparable to a top-fuel dragster. :D    The massive Tumanski's back in the old Mig-25 come to mind. Look at them wrong, and those things would self-destruct.


F'tagn!

You are right about Soviet engineering, we had to invent designs that will be produced on prehistoric production lines with minimal quality. Like first MiG-15s that suffered from "valyozhka" (uncontrolled belly-up and dive at speeds close to 1000km/h) because wings had geometrical difference up to 15cm. On Belenko's MiG-25 Americans found a 5cm lug that they thought was an aerodynamical curve, but it was simply a production defect.

In 1978 when Soviet engineers inspected a Korean 707 shot down over Karelia, they saw a technology that was absolutely unavailible here. And by that time the last Soviet passenger planes like IL-86 were already in production...

We have such a concept: "engineering art".
Title: Dueling Sabres (Of the F-86 kind)
Post by: Maverick on January 25, 2007, 02:24:07 PM
I'm sorry it took me so long to look at that clip. Great flying there. Thanks Golfer.