Sent into Vietnam, the F-100 Super Sabre became a close air support workhorse. But with 180 lost to enemy fire and plagued by compressor stalls, it proved as dangerous for its pilots as for the enemy.

The F-22 and F-15 can travel at speeds up to and beyond Mach 2.25 and the F-35 can hit speeds of Mach 1.6, yet the first supersonic fighter aircraft emerged as far back as the 1950s with the North ...

Flying low and fast over enemy territory, the USAF’s “Misty” F-100 Super Sabres carried out some of the most dangerous ...

Former Milford resident Robert E. Layman Jr. perished in South Vietnam May 22, 1969, when the U.S. Army medical helicopter he piloted came under enemy fire and crashed. Layman, 20, will join three ...