/ NORTH AMER ICAN F-100 SUPER SABRE / ROMANCING th 'HUN'e BY JULIE SUMMERS WALKER A legendary aircraft from which heroes were made It is 1968 and I am 10 years old. My beautiful cousin, Cynthia Gay, has brought home yet another handsome young man in uniform, on his way to Vietnam. He is such a romantic figure; I cannot take my eyes off him or keep from holding his hand. Years later the memory of that young man stays with me. There is, as they say, just something about a man in uniform. ILLUSTRATION BY MELANIE JUDD PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE FIZER AOPA PILOT / January 2022 59