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Hansen’s F-86 Sabres:

Aviation history at Mojave Air and Space Port

by Cathy Hansen own three of them!
special to Aerotech News I have always loved machines: cars,
airplanes, trains, helicopters, trucks,
Al Hansen has owned three Cana- you name it! I enjoy the sound and
dair CL-13B Sabre Mk.6 F-86 Sabres feel of horsepower.
through the years. All came from I grew up listening to my dad and
Flight Systems, a company that was brothers talk about engines, and I
active at Mojave Air and Space Port learned to identify different aircraft
in the 1970s and 1980s. when I was only four years old. I re-
I thought the North American F-86 member vividly seeing a photograph
Sabre was the most beautiful airplane of an F-86 Sabre on the front page
I had ever seen, and I never dreamed of the newspaper in 1950. The head-
that I would marry a guy who would line proclaimed the victory of the first

Photograph by Cathy Hansen
Al Hansen’s F-86E nose-to-nose with a MiG-15 at Mojave Airport, now the Mojave Air and Space Port.
American jet to down an enemy MiG- 670.9 miles per hour. to fly higher and always had the ad-
15. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bruce During the Korean War, F-86 mod- vantage for the start of battles. The
Hinton shot down the first MiG-15 els A, E and F engaged Russian MiG- MiG had a better rate of climb, and
with an F-86A, on Dec. 17, 1950. 15s. By the end of the war, 792 MiGs thrust-to-weight ratio. Also the ar-
First flight of the U.S. Air Force were lost and only 76 Sabres —the mament was superior, as they carried
XF-86A was Oct. 1, 1947. It was the victory ratio was 10 to 1. one 37mm and two 23mm cannons,
first swept-wing fighter for the Air Comparisons between the F-86 and
Photograph courtesy of Dr. Rich Sugden compared to six 50-caliber machine
An FJ and the F-86 flying in formation. Force. On Sept. 15, 1948, the F-86A MiG-15 were always made by the pi-
Sabre set a new world speed record of lots on both sides. The MiG was able See SABRE, Page 5

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