Nice Pic! Isn't she a beauty? Even in black & white.
It is indeed. One of my favorite stories about the Sabre is from Chuck Yeager. In the book
Yeager, there is a great story about the first MiG the US got when a North Korean pilot defected. Yeager was tasked with testing it out and pushing it to its limits. Near the end of this trail period is when the story begins. This is from page 208 of the 1985 copy of
Yeager, published by Bantam Books: