A great F105 website

[syscom3]

This is great! Even has audio of some missions!



Craig Baker's F-105 Site, The Awesome Thunderchief

[Matt308]

Watch "There is a Way". GREAT film. And only a little propaganda. Very touching.

[FLYBOYJ]

Great find Sys!

[Matt308]

75% of all sorties over North Vietnam were F-105s. Truly an unsung hero piloted by heroes.

[evangilder]

Neat stuff!

[timshatz]

Very cool site.

[Matt308]

Lots of entertainment there. I still am struggling with the 75% of all sorties by USAF in Rolling Thunder conducted by F-105s. Think about that in modern warfare. If you look at the types and numbers of aircraft lost in Vietnam it is actually quite staggering. Not to complicate matters, but I was under the impression that much more B-52s were lost, just in Operation Linebacker. Johnson and MacNamara aside (pig effers), can you imagine the Cold War turning hot in Europe what kinds of numbers we might have seen? Holy crap.

Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[pbfoot]

The ANG used to fly them here or there being the US but the approach was over head

[syscom3]

Heres the F105 from the March Air Base museum.

[Matt308]

She's a beast. And those little intakes for the P&W J75 seem too small for 26,000lbs thrust. Look like T-38 intakes.

[drgondog]

Lots of entertainment there. I still am struggling with the 75% of all sorties by USAF in Rolling Thunder conducted by F-105s. Think about that in modern warfare. If you look at the types and numbers of aircraft lost in Vietnam it is actually quite staggering. Not to complicate matters, but I was under the impression that much more B-52s were lost, just in Operation Linebacker. Johnson and MacNamara aside (pig effers), can you imagine the Cold War turning hot in Europe what kinds of numbers we might have seen? Holy crap.

Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The heaviest lifter of the 105 wings was the 355th. For a long time they were the top MiG killers and by the end of their tour at Takhli, they dropped 202,000 tons (1/3 of all the bombs dropped by all the B-17s in all of WWII).

and they had the highest losses..of all the USAF

[drgondog]

Heres the F105 from the March Air Base museum.

a 354FS/355th TFW F-105 from Takhli

[hunter0f2]

I've checked out a lot of the F 105 sites & you are right this is a good! one. The F105 is one of my all time favourite Classic aircraft, along with the Hunter& Bucaneer.... They tried very hard to replace Thud with F111 & we all know that story.......

[drgondog]

I've checked out a lot of the F 105 sites & you are right this is a good! one. The F105 is one of my all time favourite Classic aircraft, along with the Hunter& Bucaneer.... They tried very hard to replace Thud with F111 & we all know that story.......

Another 355TFW ship out of Takhli. 357th FS/355th TFW F-105D ~ 1967 inbound to Route Pack 6

Two different missions and the F-111 performed well in missions the 105 was never designed to do... the 105 never had the radar or all weather capability of the 111 - basically the 105 was just a lot faster

The F-105 did a mission well that it was never designed to do (daylight level bombing) and another that nobody though of - Wild Weasel..

The specific F-105 that Syscom put up there was the only F-105 that killed three Migs..(two different pilots) - don't know if any specific F-4 or F-8 shot down as many

[Matt308]

Note that last pic contains a load out of 750lb bombs with a .50BMG barrel screwed into the nose to "make the bomb stick". Not sure how that manifests itself in actual real life with 11sec fuses, but I have to imagine that a hardened steel nose would bury that bomb pretty deep.