As of 31 December 2024 the Super Sabre Society will be no more. We had a good run and the stories of our F-100 pilots will live on. Many thanks to Jack Paddock of Heart and Soul Web Design (https://heartandsoulwebdesign.com/) for the design and management of our site. After 31 December, the site will be
Albert Scott Crossfield, Jr., was born at Berkeley, California, 2 October 1921. At the age of 5, he contracted pneumonia and fell into a coma. He was not expected to survive. His condition improved and he was confined to bed for many months. Effects of the illness lasted throughout his childhood. It was during his […]
18 April 1958: At Edwards Air Force Base, California, test pilot Lieutenant Commander George Clinton Watkins, United States Navy, set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Altitude Record of 23,449 meters (76,932 feet) ¹ with a Grumman F11F-1F Tiger, Bureau of Aeronautics serial number (Bu. No.) 138647. The F11F-1F had also reached an impressive Mach 2.04
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17 April 1956: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation rolled out the very first production F-104A Starfighter, 55-2956, at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California. This airplane, one of the original seventeen pre-production YF-104As, incorporated many improvements over the XF-104 prototype, the most visible being a longer fuselage. Once the configuration was finalized, 55-2956 was the first YF-104A converted to