Camera bay fairing

Gun compartments enlarged, fitted with constant temperature air conditioning

Upper pair of M-3 machine guns

retained on some conversions

'Honeybucket' 3 x (port) and 1 x

(starboard upper) guns retained

Initial 'Honeybucket' conversion on

two airframes with single K-25 camera

fitted horizontally in starboard bay,

shooting downwards through an

optical glass panel in the nose via a

45º mirror

'Ashtray' conversions on five airframes with one forward

oblique 610 mm (24 in) K-11 'dicing' camera in lip of the

nose and two vertical coverage 508 mm (20 in) K-24

cameras fitted horizontally in both bays, shooting

downwards via 45º mirrors through optical glass panels

in the under nose fairing

1 x General Electric J47-GE-7 with further

upgrade to J47-GE-13

Flush-fitting doors deleted from gun ports,

gun blast panel added

Revised canopy

Sperry A-1CM lead-computing gunsight (F-86A-7)

Details as F-86A-1 unless otherwise indicated

Aluminium intake surround (F-86A-6/-7)

Dielectric radar cover (F-86A-6/-7)

V-shaped armoured

glass windshield

AN/APG-30 ranging

radar (F-86A-7)

Cockpit pressure vent

in rear hood frame

Additional:

Older F-86A-5 airframes with AN-APG-5C

radar and modified with Sperry A-1CM

gunsight redesignated as F-86A-6;

airframes modified with both AN/APG-30

radar and A-1CM gunsight, redesignated

as F-86A-7

1 x General Electric J47-GE-1  turbojet, later upgraded to J47-GE-7 with further upgrade

to J47-GE-13

Side mounted air brakes,

hinged at front

6 x 12.7 mm (0.5 in) Browning M-3 machine

guns with 267 (max 300) rounds per gun (3 per

side), gun ports fitted with flush-fitting doors

which opened when fired and closed after each

burst(later deleted)

Curved, armoured glass windshield

Two-piece folding forward nose gear door

Pitot relocated from tail to inner

surface of intake (later moved to

starboard wing tip

Details as XP-86 (XF-86) unless otherwise indicated

Pitot moved from intake to

starboard wing tip

454 kg (1,000 lb) bomb

capability for under wing

drop tank pylon and 8 x

127 mm (5 in) unguided

rockets under each wing

Fibreglass intake surround

Pitot mounted high on tail

Navigation lights on fin tip cap trailing edge

1 x Allison J35-C-3 turbojet

Fuel dump nozzle

Air data probe

No armament installed

Fuselage break line

Ventral air brake

(Later deleted)

North American T-4E-1 ejector seat

Low-mounted wing with 35º sweep

Single-piece forward nose gear door

Air data probes

Pressurised cockpit

Trailing edge flaps

Four-part separate leading edge slats

Rearward sliding bubble canopy

Half-span aileron

BC-453B radio range

receiver installed

in first prototype,

replaced by

AN/ARN-6 radio

compass in second

and third prototypes

Provision for A-1A gunsight

3.04 m (10 ft) test boom

mounted on nose from

test flight 78 onwards

Tailplanes with

conventional elevators