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On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:11:15 -0800, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:03:06 -0800, Savageduck
><savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2016-03-07 14:27:22 +0000, frank@thehowards.ca said:
>>
>>> On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 19:12:19 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> This picture is included in a display at the USAF Museum to honour
>>> Australia's contribution to a USAF fighter wing in the Korean War.
>>
>>Along with the Australians there was the South African AF SAAF 2nd
>>Sqdrn which started out in F-51D's and then converted to F-86's.
>
>During a visit to Mojave, CA back in 1986, I saw four ex-SAAF Sabres
>in "kit form" stored between buildings. Still in full camo and
>markings.
>
>Hard to get photos, and I was suffering from a raging case of Jerry
>Brown's Revenge. TMI.
Nitpicky me!
This is really a Canadair CL13B Sabre Mk6 (powered by an Avro Canada
Orenda) and would not have seen action in Korea. (First flight of the
Mk 6 was November 1954.)
The USAF loaned SAAF a number of F86Fs to replace their F51s in Korea.
After the cease-fire (I hate to say "end of hostilities") these were
returned to the USA.
What I don't understand is why any Canadian-built Sabres were returned
to the USA unless, of course, the US funded their construction.
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