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The Sabre Dance |
 | | Sabre Dance is the name given to a particularly dangerous behavior of swept wings, which became apparent in the USAF with the introduction of the F-86 Sabre. |
 | | The old heads called it the "Sabre Dance." It was shown to impress upon us what happens when you run out of airspeed, altitude and ideas all at once. |
 | | It was purportedly a film of a bad landing where the pilot came in too slow, tried to stop a high sink rate with a high angle of attack, realized that wasn't working, hit the burner too late to try to fly out of it, and crashed. |
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