North American F-100 Super Sabre (Crowood Aviation Series).pdf

NORTH AMERICAN

F-100 SUPER SABRE .

Peter E. Davies with David W. Menard

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The Crowood Press

Acknowledgements

This proj ect was given life by the e nthusi-

as m of so me of the me n who fl ew o r fix ed

the ' Hun'. Airc r w fr o m ma n y stag s of the

a irc raft ' hi tory gave gen erously of the ir

m mo ri es , ex p ri ences and record s. S imi -

larl y, a represe nta ti ve se lecti o n of the

equ a ll y vita l ma inta ine rs who kept the a ir -

craft o pe ratio nal were keen to pass o n

the ir insights and impress io ns. They a re

owed a real d ebt of gra titude fo r en abling

this book to offer a n unu ua ll y tho ro ugh

and det a iled ana lys is of the F- l OO's ch ar-

acter and ro le.

Above all , I am indebted to Dav id W.

Menard: ' Mr F- 100'. After sp nding a third

of his lo ng USAF career with th e S uper

abre he has continued to ex pand his

unique collectio n of informatio n and pho-

tographs concerning the a ircraft. I was

de lighted when he offe red to 'ride ho tgun '

on the project and I h ave we lco med his

guid ance and overvi ew througho ut. M an y

of the images reproduced in these pages

come from David's collectio n . Particular

thanks are a lso due to Batur Avga n, S teen

H artov, C larence Fu and Jean -Jacques Petit

for making poss ibl e a comprehensive and

deta il ed accou nt of the F- l OO's 'fore ign' se r-

v ice fo r the fir st time in a book of this kind .

This book h as a lso be nefited from the

significant contributio ns from the fo llo w-

ing F-100 ve te ran pil o ts, ma inta ine rs a nd

hist o rians: George Acree, La nce Barber

(Wings Over the Rocki es Muse um) , Maj

C urtis Burns, Mi ch ael Be no lkin, CMGT

Mike Bil c ik, J. E. T. C lause n, Jo hn C la ri -

ty, Son er Capoglu, To n y Cassan o va , Troy

C la rke , La rr y Engesath, Jack Engle r,

Ro be rt Fa ntho rp , Mehm t Findikli , Je rry

Geer, Maj Dic k Garr tt, o l Br uce Gold,

o l To m Germsche id , Dr Jo hn G ri gs by,

Lee H owa rd , Lt Col Van H a ll, Lt Col

Ro n a ld H e rri c k, Jean -Pie rre H oehn,

C hris H o bson , Col Art Jo hnson , Col

Mike Kulczy k, Lt o l Alle n La mb, ColT.

G. La ncaste r, Tho mas E. Lowe, Sgt Bob

Macavoy, Jo hn J. M ae ne Jr, Sgt Jay

M cCarthy, Maj A lex M a rtin, Col Willia m

Mc Do na ld, Maj R y Moore, David M r-

phew, Maj William 'Moose' M osel y,

Gary N o ph ske r, CMSGT Rich N ewell,

A I N e ubecker, Rod o nnan, Willia m

Po tts, C h a rl es Penley, La rr y H. Recte n -

wald , MaJ Do nald L. chme nk, St v

Sopko, Ed Sandeliu , Ri c ha rd S uc h ,

Eve re tt prous, Pe te r Schinkelsh oek,

T gt N o rm Tay lo r, o l R o n a ld Thurlow,

To n y Tho rnbo ro ugh, M Sgt O tto U e be l,

SSgt H ank Va lentine, gt Leo van

Oversch e ld e, Jo h an van d r W e i, Pe ter

Va nde rhoef, Joe Vin cent, SSgt Bo bby

'Orville ' Wright, Ve rn W agn e r, Brig Gen

David 0. Willia ms Jr, W a i A. Yip.

First publi shed in 2003 by

The rowood Press Ltd

Ramsbury, Marlboro ugh

Wi lts hire SN8 2HR

www.crowood.com

A ll ri ghts rese rved . No part of this publica tion

may be rep rodu ced or transmitted in any form

or by any mea ns, elec troni c or mec hani ca l,

including photocopy, recording, or any

inform ati on storage and retri eva l sys tem,

without permi ss ion in wr itin g fr om the

publi shers.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication

Data

A cata logue reco rd for this boo k is ava il able

fro m th e British Li brary.

ISBN 1 86 126 577 8

Contents

Intro du ction

FAST AND FIERY

SWO RDS UNSHEATHED

WORLDWIDE WARRIO R

VIETNAM WARHO RSE

ON GUARD

11 6

UNDER FO REI G N FLAGS

133

SON OF A HUN: THE F-107A

15 1

Appendix I

F-100 Statistics and Perform ance

155

Appendix II

F-100 Units

158

Appendix III

F-100C/D Nuclear Wea pons Contro l Procedures

167

A pp endix IV

F-100 Losses in South Eas t Asia

168

Appendix V

Prese rved, G round Instructional and Disp layed F-100 A irframes

170

Appendix VI

QF-100 Con ve rsions

171

G lossa ry

172

Index

174

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