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North American F-86F Sabre

Specifications

General characteristics

Crew: 1

Length: 37 ft 1 in (11.4 m)

Wingspan: 37 ft 0 in (11.3 m)

Height: 14 ft 1 in (4.5 m)

Wing area: 313.4 sq ft (29.11 m²)

Empty weight: 11,125 lb (5,046 kg)

Loaded weight: 15,198 lb (6,894 kg)

Max takeoff weight: 18,152 lb (8,234 kg)

Powerplant: 1× General Electric J47-GE-27 turbojet, 5,910 lbf (maximum thrust at 7.950 rpm for five min) (26.3 kN)

Fuel provisions Internal fuel load: 437 gallons (1,650 l), Drop tanks: 2 x 200 gallons (756 l) JP-4 fuel

Performance

Maximum speed: 687 mph at sea level at 14,212 lb (6,447 kg) combat weight

also reported 678 mph (1,091 km/h) and 599 at 35,000 feet (11,000 m) at 15,352 pounds (6,960 kg). (597 knots, 1,105 km/h at 6446 m, 1,091 and 964 km/h at 6,960 m.)

Stall speed: 124 mph (power off) (108 kt, 200 km/h)

Range: 1,525 mi, (1,753 NM, 2,454 km)

Service ceiling: 49,600 ft at combat weight (15,100 m)

Rate of climb: 9,000 ft/min at sea level (45.72 m/s)

lift-to-drag: 15.1

Thrust/weight: 0.38

Landing ground roll: 2,330 ft, (710 m)

Time to altitude: 5.2 min (clean) to 30,000 ft (9,100 m)

Armament

Guns: 6 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns (1,602 rounds in total)

Rockets: variety of rocket launchers; e.g: 2 × Matra rocket pods with 18× SNEB 68 mm rockets each

Missiles: 2× AIM-9 Sidewinders

Bombs: 5,300 lb (2,400 kg) of payload on four external hardpoints, bombs are usually mounted on outer two pylons as the inner pairs are wet-plumbed pylons for 2 × 200 gallons drop tanks to give the Sabre a useful range. A wide variety of bombs can be carried (max standard loadout being 2 × 1,000 lb bombs plus 2 drop tanks), napalm bomb canisters and can include a tactical nuclear weapon.

Data from The North American Sabre