North American F-86 Sabre - Specifications (F-86F-40-NA)

Specifications (F-86F-40-NA)

Data from The North American Sabre

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 37 ft 1 in (11.4 m)
• Wingspan: 37 ft 0 in (11.3 m)
• Height: 14 ft 1 in (4.5 m)
• Wing area: 313.4 sq ft (29.11 m²)
• Empty weight: 11,125 lb (5,046 kg)
• Loaded weight: 15,198 lb (6,894 kg)
• Max. takeoff weight: 18,152 lb (8,234 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × General Electric J47-GE-27 turbojet, 5,910 lbf (maximum thrust at 7.950 rpm for five min) (26.3 kN)
• Fuel provisions Internal fuel load: 437 US gallons (1,650 L)), Drop tanks: 2x200 US gallons (760 L) JP-4 fuel

Performance

• Maximum speed: 687 mph (1,106 km/h) at sea level at 14,212 lb (6,447 kg) combat weight
  also reported 678 mph (1,091 km/h) and 599 at 35,000 feet (11,000 m) at 15,352 pounds (6,960 kg). (597 knots (1,106 km/h) at 6446 m, 1,091 and 964 km/h at 6,960 m.)
• Stall speed: 124 mph (power off) (108 knots (200 km/h))
• Range: 1,525 mi, (2,454 km)
• Service ceiling: 49,600 ft at combat weight (15,100 m)
• Rate of climb: 9,000 ft/min at sea level (45.72 m/s)
• Wing loading: 49.4 lb/ft² (236.7 kg/m²)
• lift-to-drag: 15.1
• Thrust/weight: 0.38

Armament

• Guns: 6 0.50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns (1,602 rounds in total)
• Rockets: variety of rocket launchers; e.g: 2 Matra rocket pods with 18 SNEB 68 mm rockets per pod
• Bombs: 5,300 lb (2,400 kg) of payload on four external hardpoints, bombs were usually mounted on outer two pylons as the inner pairs were plumbed for 2 200 US gallons (760 L) drop tanks which gave the Sabre a more useful range. A wide variety of bombs could be carried (max standard loadout being 2 1,000 lb bombs plus two drop tanks), napalm canisters and could have included a tactical nuclear weapon.