With the approval of the executive model for AMCA, India takes a leap towards developing its own fifth-generation fighter jet ...

Perhaps joy. Certainly controlled fear. But not sadness. On that day, however, as his Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter/bomber reached velocities upward of Mach 1.8, Pachura speculated that it ...

Neil Alden Armstrong ... astronaut, aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was doing TV ...

To honor the Academy, the United States Air Force sent a decommissioned Republic F-105 Thunderchief—a “Thud,” in USAF language—to be placed on permanent display. A dedication ceremony was ...

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 ...

From December 1966 to July 1967 Lodge flew in a Republic ... and F-105G Thunderchief fighter-bombers, “Wild Weasels,” equipped with electronics that enable the F-105 to home in on and destroy ...

Examples: Mikoyan MiG-21F, Sukhoi SU-9, Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (interceptors), and Republic F-105 Thunderchief and Sukhoi SU-7B (fighter-bombers) (ii) the aircraft could now carry a much wider ...

Not 50 years after Fokkers flew in World War I, Drago serviced Republic F-105 Thunderchief and Convair F-106 Delta Dart fighters in Vietnam — planes with maximum speeds above 1,300 mph.

“She’s a Republic F-105F Thunderchief,” said Pitchford ... For Vietnam War veterans and aircraft enthusiasts, the F-105 holds a special place. Known as a “Supersonic Locomotive ...