RF-86F Sabre Wood Pecker

Here's the Wood Pecker from the 501st Recon Squadron! Yep their mascot sure looks like the Woody Woodpecker I remember from cartoons as a kid. This RF-86F was a JASDF bird from 1961 to 1977. I was really interested in these after seeing the Haymaker Sabre at the National Museum of the USAF. They flew missions over Russia and China fast and high during the Cold War. The guns were replaced with cameras, thus the bulges in the nose to make room, and the gun ports were covered and shadowed so it only looks like they are there.