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F-86

 also called Sabre

Early U.S. jet fighter manufactured by North American Aviation, Inc. Built with wings swept back to limit transonic drag as flight speed approached the sound barrier, it could exceed the speed of sound in a dive. The first squadron became operational in 1949, and the fighter saw combat in the Korean War. Production ended in 1956. A single-seat, single-engine fighter, it was powered by a series of turbojet engines, reaching a top speed of almost 700 mph (1,100 kph) in level flight. It carried guided missiles, machine guns or cannon in the fuselage, and rockets or bombs under the wings.

sabre (US), saber
a sword used in fencing, having a narrow V-shaped blade, a semicircular guard, and a slightly curved hand


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The men on horseback charged into the teeth of the Turkish guns - more than 100 Turks were sabred and several hundred taken prisoner.
Nostalgia: War hero with a sabre; LES HONOURING FATHER'S ROLE IN ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
GERMANY Socialists are shot and sabred in a suffrage demonstration in Berlin.
Radical twentieth century by New Internationalist
It is but one thing to take your chance of being sabred or hit by a bullet; but it is another (and to our mind) a much more terrible ordeal to pirouette in combustible gauze before the foot-lights, or, worse still, to be pinioned to an iron niche in some brilliant transformation scene, and to remain immoveably fixed to your precarious perch, amid a blaze of light and within leap of the flame from a thousand burners.
Trials, Troubles and Temptations in a Dangerous Era by HATCHER, JUDITH / Dance Magazine
 
 
 
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