MAIN FEATURES
Rearward retracting single
wheel nose gear unit
Inward retracting, single
wheel main gear unit
Air brake in open position
Air brakes in open position
F-86E (armed and dirty)
Sperry A-1CM lead-
computing gunsight
Braced 455 lt (100 Imp gal,
120 US gal drop tanks
Single underwing hardpoint/pylon
Provision for 4 removable
twin rocket launch rails for
8 x 127 mm (5 in) unguided rockets under each wing
6 x 12.7 mm (0.5 in) Browning M-3 machine guns
with 267 (max 300) rounds per gun (3 per side)
AN/APG-30 ranging radar
AN/ARN-6 radio
compass
Armour plated cockpit bulkheads
Avionics: AN/ARC-502 VHF transmitter/receiver,
AN/APX-6 IFF
F-86E (armed)
Fin with 35º leading edge sweep
1 x General Electric J47-GE-13 turbojet
Gun ports with gun blast panel
Manually controlled rudder
Fuel dump nozzle
Fuselage break line
North American T-4E-1 ejector seat
Side mounted air brakes
Aluminium intake surround
Armoured flat
wind shield
Dielectric radar cover
'All-flying tail' all-moving
tailplane and linked
elevators acting as one
aerodynamic surface to
improve control and
stability with 35º sweep
Hydraulically powered flying controls with 'artificial feel' (except rudder)
Tailplane with 10º dihedral
Pressurised cockpit
Rearward sliding bubble canopy
Split trailing edge flaps
Wing tip pitot
Low-mounted wing with 35º sweep
with single-piece automatic extending,
leading edge slat with 3º dihedral
Half-span aileron
F-86E (clean)
F-86: 2
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