"Matt Barrow" wrote:

"Kyle Boatright" wrote:
..the F-86, with far more engine power and a swept wing was *barely*
supersonic, and only in a steep dive.

Back in 1952, I was a little kid living on Williams AFB in Arizona. In
those days, nobody made so much fuss about noise, and the F-86 jocks on
the base regularly made everyone jump with mach 1+ dives. We kids loved
it.

Been back to Williams lately? My BIL lives about three miles from there.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KIWA

I heard it had turned civilian some years ago.

Williams was heaven for officers' brats: a whole desert full of tarantulas
and scorpions to play in and an O-Club pool to swim in.