Originally Posted by
Rosevidney1
....The Farmer was the first aircraft to achieve supersonic speed in level flight to see service.
Was it? Or did the F-100 beat it into "service"? I believe each was the was the first level supersonic aircraft for their countries, but it may depend on how you define first and "in service". Seems the F-100A saw sqaudron service in September 1954 with the 479th sqaudron, but then a grounding and then being declared operational in September 1955 (wiki)
Looks like the production version of the MiG 19 started in 1954. With a quick internet search I could not find a firm in sqaudron in service date.
Looks like they both had a nasty introduction with both have stability issues, and the F-100's having a tendancy for crashing and MiG-19's blowing up.....
