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 ...

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 ...

The Remarkable Exploits of Three Thunderchief Pilots Are a Must-Read on Memorial Day. It’s Memorial Day in the United States, part of a long three-day weekend where people in the U.S. reflect on the ...

On this day in aviation history, 70 years ago (October 22, 1955), the Republic F-105 Thunderchief made its first flight. The Thunderchief was a jet-powered fighter-bomber designed and built in the ...

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 ...

I’ve got my rock band’s name picked out; now, I just need the band. 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 ...

On an overcast afternoon in 1967, 1st Lt. David Waldrop was in the cockpit of an F-105D—call sign “Crossbow 3”—as part of a mixed force of 36 F-105s and F-4 Phantoms aiming to strike Yen Vien, the ...

The experiment did not go well for the F-105. Encountering a MiG-21, the F-105 crew should try to flee, the testers advised. If the F-105 was behind the MiG-21 and the MiG flier didn’t know it, the ...

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 ...