Check Six: September 15, 1949 – 66 years ago
From the This Day in Aviation website
15 September 1948: Major Richard L. Johnson, U.S. Air Force, Air Materiel Command, set a new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Speed Record flying the sixth production North American Aviation F-86A-1-NA Sabre, serial number 47-611, over a 3 kilometer course at Muroc AFB, California (now Edwards AFB). The air temperature was 70° F. (21° C.) with very little wind. Making four consecutive passes at an altitude of 75-125 feet (23 to 38 meters), the Sabre averaged 670.981 mph (1,079.84 kilometers per hour). The slowest pass was 669.830 miles per hour and the fastest was 672.762 miles per hour (1,077.987 and 1,082.705 kilometers per hour, respectively).
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