After WWII, people at the Pentagon thought seriously about fighting and winning a nuclear war. Neither nuclear submarines nor ICBMs had yet been invented, so the primary way of delivering the ...
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 supersonic ...
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Flight test files: Republic F-105 Thunderchief – the quest for low-level supersonic dominance
Before the Thunderchief ever flew, researchers had already discovered that many early jet aircraft slowed near the speed of sound. The engines were strong enough, but the air resisted them, and drag ...
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