The original “Thud” was improved, thanks to pilot feedback, which led to significant changes. The changes included additional armor, improved gun sights, improved ejection seats, and the addition of ...

When the Republic F-105 Thunderchief first debuted in 1955, the new supersonic fighter did not impress its pilots. The Air Force community proceeded to assign a slew of derogatory nicknames ...

Many an F-105 pilot escaped from being an unwilling guest in the "Hanoi Hilton" because of the courage and skill of KC-135 crews. When approaching Hanoi from Thailand, the F-105Ds had to cross "Thud ...

Thunderchief pilots faced three formidable enemies over ... Once they were targeted by enemy radar used to guide SAMs to their airplanes, the F-105 pilots would fire missiles that homed on the ...

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief entered service in the 1950s ... and this caused some problems for many pilots and their aircraft, including the F-86. While it served the Air Force and its pilots ...

Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

A test pilot who made the jump from the now fifty-year-old F-16 to the new F-35 stealth fighter told Business Insider that it is a wildly different experience. Think about the informational ...

Jack Finan didn’t talk much about how he defied death more than 80 years ago, piloting Lancaster bombers on dangerous raids against Nazi Germany in the Second World War. About half of Allied ...

a variant of the F/A-18F Super Hornet, was flying in low visibility conditions when it went down around 10:17 a.m. near Naval Air Station North Island, home to Naval Base Coronado. The two pilots ...

One of Poland's first two of 32 F-35A combat aircraft departs Ebbing Air National Guard Base in the US for one of the Polish Air Force's first pilot training sorties. (Polish Ministry of National ...