And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Take the fuselage, keep the intake design, develop a diamond wing, dual all turn angled tails like the F-23, stuff in the most powerful turbo fan, keep it simple, keep it cost effective, probably be a great fighter.
I was a Thud crew chief from '70-72, in Wichita KS! Winter, for this So. Cal. boy, sucked out loud. No Thai tour for me, drat! '72-'73, went to Iceland to work on F-102's, good tour. By 70, all our 105's were camoed from SE Asia. When loaded with external stores, they were lead sleds, when slick, they blew the doors off of F-4s.
I thought the initial idea was that they would deliver a nuclear weapon carried internally but the mission evolved and they proved pretty versatile. They were used by the Thunderbird aerobatic team but only for a short period - they were not really suitable for that type of flying. I only saw one once and that was at Ohakea in New Zealand when I was a kid. It broke the sound barrier which was pretty cool. We were friends with the US back then, we hadn't yet thrown away the relationship developed in WW2.
THUNDERCHIEF!!
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DeleteName a century series aircraft that wasn’t the bees knees…
ReplyDeleteThat's the truth!
DeleteDa THUD!
ReplyDeleteThe thought of these things still strikes fear in leader's hearts in Hanoi.
ReplyDeleteFast, carried a good bomb load, couldn’t turn worth a damn! Lost a lot of them, but they took the war to the North Vietnamese.
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Fast ride!
ReplyDeleteVery expensive
ReplyDeleteTry drones instead. It’s the future.
The technology we need is always ready for the next war, and paid for in blood by the guys in this one.
DeleteTruly great camera shot, those intakes rock. Such a sleek fighter looking from this angle.
ReplyDeleteTake the fuselage, keep the intake design, develop a diamond wing, dual all turn angled tails like the F-23, stuff in the most powerful turbo fan, keep it simple, keep it cost effective, probably be a great fighter.
ReplyDeleteoh yeah, and 360 pivoting axial exhaust.
DeleteI was a Thud crew chief from '70-72, in Wichita KS! Winter, for this So. Cal. boy, sucked out loud. No Thai tour for me, drat! '72-'73, went to Iceland to work on F-102's, good tour.
ReplyDeleteBy 70, all our 105's were camoed from SE Asia.
When loaded with external stores, they were lead sleds, when slick, they blew the doors off of F-4s.
I thought the initial idea was that they would deliver a nuclear weapon carried internally but the mission evolved and they proved pretty versatile. They were used by the Thunderbird aerobatic team but only for a short period - they were not really suitable for that type of flying. I only saw one once and that was at Ohakea in New Zealand when I was a kid. It broke the sound barrier which was pretty cool. We were friends with the US back then, we hadn't yet thrown away the relationship developed in WW2.
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