Award-winning 4S Ranch filmmaker Mark Vizcarra’s latest project, a 1 1/2 hour documentary on F-105 Thud pilots and crew members during the Vietnam War, will make its world premiere on Wednesday at the ...

Discover the dramatic story of the Republic F-105 Thunderchief-better known as the “Thud” and its unexpected role as a MiG hunter during the Vietnam War. Originally designed as a nuclear strike ...

Quite often, when we talk to F-105 pilots, they dig into their log books and discover they flew the FHC’s Thunderchief, number 336, in combat. I recently asked Dewey Vandevender if he ever thought ...

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — Former F-105 Thunderchief pilots held a reunion at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Nov. 2-5. After approximately 15 years of get-togethers, this reunion ...

Click to open image viewer. The F-105 was designed as a supersonic, single-seat, fighter-bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons or heavy bomb loads at supersonic speeds. The F-105D variant was an ...

TUPELO – After spending more than two years in the back lot on Crossover Road, a Vietnam-era fighter-bomber will move to its final resting place today.

In the early years of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union were engineering and producing new fighter jets and bombers at a historic rate. The Korean War saw the first combat ...