Subject: Number One Hundred in the Series--North American F-100 Super Sabre (12 of 12)

From: [email-masked]
Date: 11 Nov 93 17:15:08 GMT

>From [email-masked]

The production history of the Super Sabre came to an end when the last 
F-100F two-seater was delivered.  However, there were several other 
Super Sabre variants subsequent to the F-100F which were the subject 
of serious design studies but which never saw the light of day.  

For some odd reason, the designation F-100G and F-100H were never 
assigned.  

The F-100J (probably J for Japan) was the designation given to a 
projected, but unbuilt all-weather interceptor version offered to 
Japan through the Foreign Military Sales program.  The Japanese 
government expressed no interest, and the project proceeded no further 
than the concept stage.  

F-100K was to have been a version of the two-seat F-100F in which the 
J57-P-21A was replaced by the J57-P-55.  F-100L was to have been the 
designation of an equivalent J57-P-55-powered version of the 
single-seat F-100D.  Neither version was never actually built.  

The designation F-100M was never assigned.  

The F-100N (probably N for NATO) was to have been a "stripped" version 
of the F-100D with simplified electronics that would be offered to the 
air forces of NATO nations.  It attracted little interest and was not 
proceeded with.  

The designations F-100P,Q, and R were never assigned.  

The F-100S (probably S for Spey) was a 1964 proposal for a F-100F 
airframe powered by a Rolls-Royce RB.168-25R Spey turbofan.  North 
American had hoped to establish a production line in France for two 
hundred examples of the F-100S, but nothing ever came of the idea, and 
no F-100S was ever built.  

Sources:

  North American F-100 Super Sabre, David A. Anderton, Osprey, 1987

  The North American F-100 Super Sabre, Ray Wagner, Aircraft in Profile,
  1965.

  United States Military Aircraft Since 1909, Gordon Swanborough and
  Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.

  The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, Orion, 1987.

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