1956 USAF Sabre crash North Vancouver

I once took the gondola to the top of Grouse Mountain. Quite a view of the city from up there!

 

Never even heard of this and it’s right in my back yard. Crazy!

 

Shame they took basically everything away but left the engine. Would’ve been interesting to see the remains of the plane still there

 

I don't know where I saw it but someone found the Flying Wing crashsite in the Mohave Desert and even today, they found shards and materials from the plane at the site.

 

There are many crash sites in Europe where they are still finding remnants of bombers and fighters. Sometimes the whole thing.

 

And they sometimes fish them out of waterways, sometimes in surprisingly good condition.

 

Indeed; regarding the jets of the fifties / sixties / seventies, we tend to forget nowadays that their accident rate was high. Quite a number of F-86 crashed in France when the USAF had them at Etain and Phalsbourg; a few examples can be found browsing through the following pages:

http://www.forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/f86f-sabre_531072-531228.html

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/Pinetreeline/metz/otherm4/otherm4-6.html

Rgds

 

USAF Class A Mishap Rate for fighters in the 50s was 54.2, it is now less than 2 (accidents per 100,000 flying hours).

 

That's a very telling statistic, Terry; yes, the fifties were a very interesting period for avaition, with lots of progress regarding speed, performance, etc...but it came at a price. Growing up in the seventies, during the cold war, I had lots of oportunities to see american, canadian and french tactical jets flying around my little town on the North-East of France, but reading the newspapers, you could see that accidents happened rather frequently.

Rgds

 

Do your homework before, as I am not sure that anything remains.
Accidents did happen, and quite frequently, but in my part of France, North-East, when there were lots of airbases at the time (Marville, Phalsbourg, Etain, Nancy, Metz, Strasbourg-Entzeim, Grostenquin, Zweibrücken, Bade-Solligen, Ramstein, Bitburg, etc...all in a 75 miles radius around my little town) the country is rather densely populated and farmed, so whenever an accident happened, airplane pieces and parts were quickly collected after the standard enquiry and everything was cleaned...not sure you would find any interesting remains.
When I was a kid, there was a U.S Army Air Forces P-47 wreck, still rather complete, in a forest nearby, but the site has been methodically cleaned and returned to nature in the seventies.

Rgds

 

Dog Sabre.

F-86D.


The (beginning) of the video showed a F-86F - wrong.

Most likely the pilot was assigned to either the 317th or 318th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. Both of those units flew the Dog out of McChord.


RIP

 

Almost everyone automatically gravitates to the F-86A, E, and F.

The USAF also fielded the D and H.

USN and USMC - FJ-2, FJ-3/FJ-3M and FJ-4/FJ-4B.

 

Easy to tell the difference, the F-86D is ugly and the F-86F is pretty. Jimmy Durante radome makes the the D distinctive.

 

Cool video. For the NY’ers, there’s B-47 wreckage on Wright Peak just outside of Lake Placid In the Adirondacks that’s pretty accessible. Similar to this, there isn’t much left. Just some tires, engines, and twisted aluminum from what I recall when I was there probably 10 years ago. There is a B-52 crash site on Elephant Mtn in Maine that still has substantial pieces of the fuselage. I have yet to make it up to that one.

 

My dad loved the Dog best of the 86s. Coming from a guy who flew Mustangs and Lightning’s too, looks may have been deceiving…

 

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526th FIS Dog. 86th FIW - Ramstein A.B.

Wing CO's aircraft.

I hope the 0-6 did not sell the 300 SL Roadster too soon. That car would cover for a nice down payment, on a property in Niceville or Shalimar .

 

Beautiful plane. Love it.

edit: and SL!

 

My 4 little boys loved their B Model (built by Bob) and literally " flew " the wheels off of it. Sorry, I can't get my photo of the kid's- sized F-86 that I built for them to load.