Republic F-84F Thunderstreak

So it was enjoyable to fly it.

And of course, being a, a swept wing airplane, it was high performance, much better than the, the swept wing F-84F.

Uh, it was more maneuverable and, and you could, uh, climb to a faster altitude and dive and had better speed breaks and this sort of thing.

The F-84F was designed and built for a ground support airplane, and it was built for 9 Gs, which made it very heavy and not very maneuverable.

Although we could get it supersonic in a dive, it wasn't at all for an air to air airplane like the 86 was built to be.

But the F-86A, as I understand it, it still had standard elevators on it.

Like in a straight wing airplane, you could not go supersonic because the drag was so high and, and you'd lose, uh, loss of control when you started to reach, uh, about 0.8 Mach number.

The turbulence becomes so bad that you, uh, couldn't break through the barrier.