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Canadair Sabre celebrates its 70th anniversary

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Canadair Sabre celebrates its 70th anniversary Skies It was on Aug. 9, 1950, that the first single-engine Canadair Sabre 1 jet fighter roared off the runway at Montreal’s Dorval Airport on its maiden flight with test pilot Al Lilly at the controls. For the next 15 minutes, the silver aircraft armed with six machine guns and capable of speeds of at least 650 miles per hour (1,046 kilometres per hour) circled overhead. The next day Lilly became the first Canadian pilot to break the sound barrier when he dove the seven-tonne aircraft vertically from 50,000 feet (15,240 metres). READ MORE

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