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United States Air Force Thunderbirds flying the Republic F-84F Thunderstreak in 1955
(U.S. Air Force photo)
Anytime... And anywhere... Republic Aviation - 1954.
Warlord Photo File from Warlord No. 411, dated 7 August 1982. The Republic RF-84F Thunderflash. It states in the text it was a development of the Thunderjet but reading up on it shows it was really a variant of the later Thunderstreak.
Confusingly the Thunderjet and the Thunderstreak were both known as the F-84 (the Thunderstreak being the F-84F) but were quite different planes.
The Thunderflash was given the added 'R' prefix for 'Reconnaissance' and had loads of cameras. Other than that I don't know very much about these planes. Although they were used by various NATO forces I would say in the UK this family of jets aren't that well known.
Photo by P. H. Lee.
Below is a 1974 ad for the Airfix model kit of the Thunderstreak.
DC Thomson.
A pair of F-84Gs pull in behind a waiting KB-29P tanker
A rare interview about Republic Aviation, from the P-47 to the A-10, from designer to company President: Robert Sanator
VIDEO ➤➤ https://youtu.be/4YdG7A8sJpU
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"In the center foreground of this 1953 hangar photo is the YF-84A (NACA 134/Air Force 45-59490) used for vortex generator research. It arrived on November 28, 1949, and departed on April 21, 1954. Beside it is the third D-558-1 aircraft (NACA 142/Navy 37972). This aircraft was used for a total of 78 transonic research flights from April 1949 to June 1954. It replaced the second D-558-1, lost in the crash which killed Howard Lilly. Just visible on the left edge is the nose of the first D-558-2 (NACA 143/Navy 37973). Douglas turned the aircraft over to NACA on August 31, 1951, after the contractor had completed its initial test flights. NACA only made a single flight with the aircraft, on September 17, 1956, before the program was cancelled. In the center of the photo is the B-47A (NACA 150/Air Force 49-1900). The B-47 jet bomber, with its thin, swept-back wings, and six podded engines, represented the state of the art in aircraft design in the early 1950s. The aircraft undertook a number of research activities between May 1953 and its 78th and final research flight on November 22, 1957. The tests showed that the aircraft had a buffeting problem at speeds above Mach 0.8. Among the pilots who flew the B-47 were later X-15 pilots Joe Walker, A. Scott Crossfield, John B. McKay, and Neil A. Armstrong.
On the right side of the B-47 is NACA's X-1 (Air Force 46-063). The second XS-1 aircraft built, it was fitted with a thicker wing than that on the first aircraft, which had exceeded Mach 1 on October 14, 1947. Flight research by NACA pilots indicated that this thicker wing produced 30 percent more drag at transonic speeds compared to the thinner wing on the first X-1. After a final flight on October 23, 1951, the aircraft was grounded due to the possibility of fatigue failure of the nitrogen spheres used to pressurize the fuel tanks. At the time of this photo, in 1953, the aircraft was in storage. In 1955, the aircraft was extensively modified, becoming the X-1E."
Date: April 27, 1953
NASA ID: E-960
USAF Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 51-9456 by Mark Allison Via Flickr: On display at Grissom Air Museum near Peru, Indiana. -30/05/2022
