North American F-100A (52-5778) Super Sabre sitting on the Rogers Dry Lakebed.
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North American F-100A (52-5778) Super Sabre sitting on the Rogers Dry Lakebed, 1959. Pitch-up could be overcome by several “fixes”, but the problems and cost outweighed the potential benefits. The obvious conclusion from the NACA High-Speed Flight Station testing as to the desirability of the low horizontal tail surface led to that configuration’s becoming standard on the first-generation supersonic swept-wing fighters such as the F-100 Super Sabre.1959NASA Photo / › F-100 Project Description