The F-107 Ultra Sabre should have become one of America’s greatest Cold War fighters. Faster than Mach 2, armed for nuclear strike missions, and packed with cutting-edge technology, it was the radical successor to the legendary F-100 Super Sabre. Its most distinctive feature—a massive dorsal air intake mounted above the cockpit—gave it an appearance unlike any other fighter of its era and earned it a reputation as one of the most unusual jets ever built. Yet despite impressive performance, the F-107 found itself locked in a battle for survival against the Republic F-105 Thunderchief while, across the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Su-7 was fighting its own struggle to become the USSR’s next great fighter-bomber. This is the story of the F-107 Ultra Sabre, the daring design that pushed American aviation to its limits, the Cold War rivalry that doomed it before it could enter service, and the qu

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