Wrong. He was flying the F-86D version. It had no guns, only a belly pack with 24 folding-fin air to air unguided rockets.
I hate being wrong... but you are right.
I was thinking strictly about the Korea config’d models.
The F-86D was indeed an anti-Soviet bomber interceptor.
Fascinating. Using unguided rockets to kill bombers at 500yds with a computer-aided deflection shot.
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p86_6.html
A pic for your troubles....
you mean, oh, my, REALLY . . . could you possibly have just documented . . .
is it really POSSIBLE????
I mean are you sure???
You'd better call a press conference . . . are you absolutely sure????
I mean . . . never since the dawn of dirt and time . . . never before has it happened!
Are you sure you weren't dreaming?
Maybe you had a hallucination?
Or maybe Obumma road in on some swamp gas and mangled your memory chips so that you just THOUGHT it was the case that . . .
I mean . . . I didn't know that God and His angels and the powers that be and all the ships at sea
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Who'd a thunk!
/sar