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Originally Posted by Olds64
I could have sworn that this book mentioned something about the Cutlass being named after the F7U Cutlass (I didn't know the US used it). Oldsguy has a copy, I guess I will have to ask him to thumb through it this weekend. I could be mistaken.
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The F7U Cutlass was built by US company Chance Vought for the US Navy.
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I thought the F86 was the Super Sabre; however, it appears the F100 was the Super Sabre. Oh well, I still think it would be cool to make an Oldsmobile F 86. You could paint it silver with yellow or red on the front valance. Like the jets on the following webpage.
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The F-86, built by North American Aviation, was the Saber Jet. When North American then developed the supersonic F-100, that was called the Super Saber. By the way, Saber is also a sword, but the F-86 and F-100 were Air Force planes and the F7U was a Navy plane.
By the way, there WAS an F-85 fighter plane, the XF-85 Goblin build by McDonnell Aircraft (before it became McDonnell Douglas). The F-85 was a grotesque little airplane that was intended to be carried in the bomb bay of a long range B-36 to provide support over enemy territory since conventional fighters didn't have that kind of range. The F-85 was a poor handling aircraft and mid-air refueling eliminated the reason for it's existence (as did ICBMs).
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/airc...l-F85/f-85.php