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Te Super Sabre was te first supersonic operational fighter in the world in 1953.
This cause the type to be very famous. On the other hand NAVY fighters were never considerd as famous and the bat wing Skyray is a good example.
The main common thing among the two was the engine - J57 which was the first engine to deliver 10000 lb thrust without an afterburner. The installation in the Suer sabre was simple with air duct from the front. In the Skyray two air intakes from body sides integrated into huge bat wing and because of that the engine was less powerful than te Super sabre Somewhat.
Also the fat wing of the Skyray while good for climbing like rocket in 70 degrees
angle created a lot of drag and the plane was good for mach 0.95 at low level and 1.08 at high level while the Super saber was 1.0 and 1.3 at high level.
So the much lower drag gave it 220 kph higher speed and in those days of non stop searching for higher speed it was considered as much better !!!
Also the F-100 fought in the Vietnam war and was phased out of service in 1977 while the Skyray was out of service in the early 60's before the war.
The Super sabre is from Murph's models while the Skyray Ecardmodels both in 1:48 scale.
I will post the images of the two in the next post here.


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