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A painting by Keith Ferris of a Viet Nam-era F-105 “Thud” hanging on the wall of the Museum of Aviation near Robins, AFB.
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A painting by Keith Ferris of a Viet Nam-era F-105 “Thud” hanging on the wall of the Museum of Aviation near Robins, AFB.
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Nice. I’ve always loved paintings like this, and I kind of feel like they’re dying out – at least of modern aircraft that is. It’s hard to imagine a painting this dramatic of an F-22 or F-35 what with their internal stores. And of course a Predator would just feel kind of soul-less.
The F-105 was a really cool rocket-ship looking aircraft, but we sure lost a lot of them during the Vietnam war.
Combat losses were 320: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-105_Thunderchief#Vietnam_War
Total losses were almost half the production run of the aircraft.