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Should this segment be changed to reflect an earlier F-86F variant, as there were far more F models with the small and unslatted wings, or stay as the F-40 because many other variants were upgraded to that standard? The wingspan number stated was for an earlier variant until recently, and the image used was for an A model. Fsend ( talk) 14:33, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Can somebody with the reference please put the max speed in thereference in-- Petebutt ( talk) 22:42, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to change the role tag in the infobox from just "fighter aircraft" to something more specific like "air superiority fighter" or even "interceptor." Does anyone have any objections? If you do state why. GansMans ( talk) 22:41, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
I want to change it because it can easily be changed to something more specific and more accurate. Any aircraft can have the designation "fighter" but if there's a more appropriate label that has been historically put on it, I see no reason why it shouldn't be changed. I also suggest you change your attitude if we want to cooperate, because treating someone like a child and talking down to them probably isn't the best approach. Shouldn't be this hard now should it? GansMans ( talk) 23:50, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
This reads like a very well-written and assembled article. One important detail seems missing, though. I recall reading in a book somewhere that the F-86 was the first fighter aircraft to incorporate hydraulics in the controls, which greatly helped in improving the agility of the craft. It was only the second aircraft to do so, the first being a passenger airliner. I can't remember where I read that, but I will dig around and see if I can find it. Perhaps someone here already has sources and could add it to the article? Zaereth ( talk) 20:04, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
I just recently watchlisted this article, and I notice a slow edit war is going on over grammar. Since grammar is my wheelhouse, I thought I would start a discussion place here, and perhaps I can help clear up some of the IP's confusion. The disputed sentence is: "By the end of hostilities, F-86 pilots were credited with shooting down 792 MiGs for a loss of only 78 Sabres in air-to-air combat, a victory ratio of 10:1." and the contention seems to be that "shooting" should be changed to "having shot", because "shot" is the past-tense form of the word.
The problem here is two-fold. First, "having shot" is a future-perfect tense combination, because the verb "having" is future tense while the adverb that describes it, "shot", is past tense. The second and bigger issue is that "shooting" is not a verb in this sentence. The verb in this sentence is the past-tense "were", which is followed by the past-tense participle "credited"; a participle being a verb that is being used as an adverb. "Shooting", on the other hand, is a future-tense verb being used as a noun, also known as a gerund. So, to the IP, you're really just replacing one gerund (shooting) with another (having), which makes it awkward to read, because it 1.) adds more words than is necessary, and 2.) adverb-gerund combinations are rarely used to form a noun (the act rather than the action). I hope that helps.
One correction needs to be made, however. The last clause is an incomplete sentence, tacked onto the end of the complete sentence, so the comma should be changed to a semicolon. Zaereth ( talk) 00:12, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
This page ("Notable pilots") claims that M. M. Alam shot down " five Indian Air Force fighters within one minute". Alam's own page M. M. Alam mentions three planes shot down in one minute near the top, and later reports five in a day including four in one minute. I have absolutely no idea what the right number is, but I would hope that we could either (a) have some consistency or (b) note that the exact number appears to be unclear. STeamTraen ( talk) 09:52, 12 April 2022 (UTC)