This silent promotional film for the F-100 Super Sabre was made by North American Aviation, and likely shown to members of the Department of Defense and Congress. There are two parts to the film. The first, starting at 7 seconds through 5:30, shows a bare metal aircraft being put through its paces. Beginning at 5:39 the aircraft is shown in Southeast Asia in combat operations during the Vietnam War. At 5:49, tail #0-52964 and a wingman take off. Various other take-off shots. At 6:39 F-100s drop bomb loads. At 7:19, a napalm drop is seen with an enormous fireball resulting. At 7:42, cannon fire and strafing of ground targets. At 10:18, slow motion shots of bombs dropping from F-100s. At 12:06, what appears to be chaff or possibly cluster bombs is dispersed from the aircraft. At 13:06, sunset shots as the aircraft return to base.
The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard (ANG) until 1979. The first of the Century Series of USAF jet fighters, it was the first USAF fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. The F-100 was designed by North American Aviation as a higher performance follow-on to the F-86 Sabre air superiority fighter.
Adapted as a fighter-bomber, the F-100 was supplanted by the Mach two-class F-105 Thunderchief for strike missions over North Vietnam. The F-100 flew extensively over South Vietnam as the air force’s primary close air support jet until being replaced by the more efficient subsonic LTV A-7 Corsair II. The F-100 also served in other NATO air forces and with other U.S. allies. In its later life, it was often referred to as the Hun, a shortened version of “one hundred”.
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