Super Sabre Bibliography:
Magazine Articles and Photos:
“F-100A Flown by Navy Pilot” Naval Aviation News September 1955
3-view profile: F-100C Super Sabre Flight. 18 November 1955 p.775
Photo: “F-100C Stabilizer at GAC” Aviation Week March 5, 1956 p.60
Claude Witze “F-100s Set Up Tough Logistic Test” Aviation Week June 18, 1956 p.31
Photo: “North American F-100Cs” AW August 27, 1956 front cover
Photos (4): “Super Sabres” AW August 27, 1956 p.38
Photo: “F-100 Rolls For Camera” AW May 13, 1957 p.87
Photos (4): “F-100 Fires Bullpup Over Eglin AFB” AW November 7, 1960 p.78
“Drag-Increasing Device Has Dyna-Soar, X-15 Application” Aviation Week & Space Technology July 31, 1961 3 photos
Photo: F-100F 56-3592 of the 354th TFW Air Pictorial September 1962 p.285
Photo: F-100 being loaded with a TGM-83 training version of the Bullpup missile. Air Progress Fall 1962 p.92
Photo: Royal Danish AF F-100 GT-982. Air Pictorial November 1963 p.374
Photo: “USAF Thunderbird acrobatic team executes four-plane Bonton Roulle” Aviation Week & Space Technology August 21, 1967 front cover
Robert L. Trimble “North American F-100 Super Sabre Paint Schemes and Markings” Scale Modeler February 1983
Tod Lane “An Old Fighter With A New Number” Air Combat May 1983 p.12-14, 64-67 Eight photos. Covers the QF-100 drone program.
Photo: QF-100 56-3024 Air Classics August 1988 p.49
Photo: QF-100 63082 Aviation Week & Space Technology May 14, 1990 p.29
Photo: preserved RoCAF F-100D #31566 at Hsinchu. World Air Power Journal Vol 33/ Summer 1998 p.155
F-100 1/72 scale plans Scale Aviation Modeller International 10-2000
“Super Sabre tribute to Vietnam pilots” Aeroplane September 2004 p.9 1 photo. Covers the restoration of F-100D 55-2888 / N2011U (ex Turkish Air Force, ex Tracor Flight Systems) to southeast Asia camouflage scheme.
Peter Marshall “Burnt Iron” Building the 1/32 Trumpeter F-100D as a French aircraft Scale Aviation Modeller International July 2008
Vin Pompeo “Hun on the Hunt” Model Aircraft May 2016 Finishing Trumpeter’s 1/48 F-100F as a SEA-camouflaged aircraft
Books
The History of the U.S. Air Force, by David Anderton color profile: F-100D-61-NA “Jeanne Kay” of the 308th TFS/31st TFW; Photo (color) F-100 56-3097 over South Vietnam.
Encyclopedia of World Military Airpower p.285, color profiles of RDAF F-100D G-781, Turkish F-100 54-1798, French F-100D 54-2160, F-100C 54-1939 127th FS, Kansas ANG.
Peter R. Foster USAF Fighter Interceptor Squadrons Although the Hun was by no means an all-weather interceptor, it did play a role in air defense in its last years, serving as an unmanned target for interceptor training. This book has several good F-100 photos, including a close up of aircraft 56-3195 fitted with a Tracor hot pod on the wingtip.
Ray Bonds Classic Fighters: The Inside Story p.192-195. Includes an F-100D cutaway drawing, and a nice large format color shot of an in-flight Hun in the pre-camouflage days.
Tony Buttler American Secret Projects: Fighters & Interceptors 1945-1978
p.50-51: model photos showing the Advanced F-86 and Sabre 45 proposed forerunners to the F-100
Jim Winchester American Military Aircraft: A History of Innovation p.356-359: color profiles of F-100D 55-3604/481st TFS, and camouflaged F-100F Wild Weasel 58-1226