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Indeed a Dragonfly on steroids.
And this has the standard wing tanks installed. The Misawa tanks noted earlier were started from the and created in about three different forms by adding extensions on in the middle.F-80C-10-LO (49-696) was assigned to the 35th FBS, 8th Fighter-Bomber Group at Itazuke AB, Japan WIKI
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This is just sad....Explosive charges detonated in the fuselage of an F-105 Thunderchief due to be used for a battle damage repair demonstration at Warner Robins AFB in April 1987
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F-105D-25-RE Thunderchief/62-4229357th Tactical Fighter Squadron Republic F-105D Thunderchief 62-4229 en route to target over Vietnam on February 6th 1970, note the fuze extenders fitted to some of the bombs to detonate them above ground and maximize blast and fragment damage to targets in the open.
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They had a F-4D with two or three MiG kills painted on it. It was BDR training aircraft that was kept behind the museum of aviation. There came a new General wanted to know why an aircraft of douch linage was in south shape and not on display was informed the aircraft had never even left the US and that the BDR teams had painted the stars on as a joke. I remember the 105.This is just sad....
BDR F-4 at Upper Heyford had a genuine MiG kill. I think it was rescued...They had a F-4D with two or three MiG kills painted on it. It was BDR training aircraft that was kept behind the museum of aviation. There came a new General wanted to know why an aircraft of douch linage was in south shape and not on display was informed the aircraft had never even left the US and that the BDR teams had painted the stars on as a joke. I remember the 105.
A flying submarine!
My first thought tooA flying submarine!