North American Aviation
F-86 Sabre

The North American F-86 Sabre, Sometimes Called The Sabrejet, Is A Transonic Jet Fighter Aircraft. Produced By North American Aviation, The Sabre Is Best Known As The United States' First Swept-Wing Fighter That Could Counter The Swept-Wing Soviet MiG-15 In High-Speed Dogfights In The Skies Of The Korean War (1950–1953), Fighting Some Of The Earliest Jet-To-Jet Battles In History.

North American Aviation had produced the propeller-powered P-51 Mustang in World War II, which saw combat against some of the first operational jet fighters. By late 1944, North American proposed its first jet fighter to the U.S. Navy, which became the FJ-1 Fury. It was an unexceptional transitional jet fighter that had a straight wing derived from the P-51. Initial proposals to meet a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) requirement for a medium-range, single-seat, high-altitude, jet-powered day escort fighter/fighter bomber were drafted in mid-1944. In early 1945, North American Aviation submitted four designs. The USAAF selected one design over the others and granted North American a contract to build three examples of the XP-86 ("experimental pursuit"). Deleting specific requirements from the FJ-1 Fury, coupled with other modifications, allowed the XP-86 to be lighter and considerably faster than the Fury, with an estimated top speed of 582 mph (937 km/h), versus the Fury's 547 mph (880 km/h)Wiki Link