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
“On July 26, 1959, Marine LtCol William Rankin “was flying in an F-8 Crusader from Naval Air Station South Weymouth in Massachusetts to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina. At around 6:00 PM, minutes before Rankin was about to make his descent towards Beaufort, the pilot heard grinding sounds coming from his aircraft’s […]
July 27, 1960 – North American F-100C #53-1740, assigned to the USAF Thunderbirds on 28 March 1960, crashes fifty miles from Nellis AFB, Nevada, killing Capt. John R. Crane during a solo proficiency flight. John Crane was born on August 21, 1926, in Las Vegas, NV. He served as narrator and information officer for the
26 July 1998 – Burt Rutan’s “Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-altitude long endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays. The Proteus is a multi-mission vehicle able to carry various payloads on a ventral pylon. The Proteus has an extremely efficient design,