The furious pace of cold war weapons development ensured the North American F-86 Sabre burned briefly but brightly, ceasing production at the end of 1956, just nine years after George Welch’s ...

Products of the mid- to late 1950s, they were members of the second generation of jet fighters—post-North American F-86 Sabre class ... during the Vietnam War, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom ...