Built in the 1950s as North American Aviation’s answer to the Air Force’s next-gen fighter-bomber competition, the F-107A Ultra Sabre packed radical features—from over-fuselage air intakes to early ...

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief, known to its crews as the Thud, was a cornerstone of US Air Force strike capability during the early Cold War and Vietnam War. Designed in the 1950s as a ...

When the Republic F-105 Thunderchief first debuted in 1955 ... positioned at the base of the wings. The jet’s nose, which in most fighters would feature an engine intake, was instead packed ...

The Flight Experiment facility has a new BO 105 nose boom for test flights starting in July 2025. The new nose boom was developed, built and certified in collaboration with Leichtwerk AG. During the ...

Up there with the Huey as an icon of Vietnam, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was the most prolific aircraft of the war. Designed by the Navy as a state-of-the-art ... Aviation's F-105 ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO)—The Aviation Heritage Park has started assembling the F-105 Thunderchief, which arrived from Texas last week. The Vietnam-era fighter jet, known as the “Thud,” was ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Aviation Heritage Park is welcoming a new addition, a Vietnam-era F-105 Thunderchief, set to arrive from Texas. Known as the “Thud,” this aircraft played a major ...

If you have seen photos from the Vietnam War, you have probably seen the F-105 Thunderchief. It continues the trend of "Thunder" in the name of Republic Aviation warplanes (starting with their P ...

As he dropped the fighter’s nose back out of the clouds ... on in and blew up when he hit the ground.” The Republic F-105 Thunderchief had a hard life. A lack of reliability and in-flight ...

My as-yet-unformed band will be named for what, in my opinion, is the most satisfyingly designated aircraft in the US Air Force’s inventory, past or present: the F-105 “Thunderchief.” ...

The most popular myth was that it came from a character named Thunderchief In a kids TV Show. But here is the real origin, you can take this to the bank. When the F-105 came into the inventory it was ...