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On 2 July 1951, three of the designs were selected for further development, Convair's scaled-up XF-92 that evolved into the F-102, a Lockheed design that led to the F-104, and Republic's AP-57. AP-57 was an advanced concept to be built almost entirely of titanium and capable of Mach 3 at altitudes of at least 60,000 feet (18 km).
The Republic Aviation Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Farmingdale, New York, on Long Island.Originally known as the Seversky Aircraft Company, the company was responsible for the design and production of many important military aircraft, including its most famous products: World War II's P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, the F-84 Thunderjet and F-105 Thunderchief jet fighters.
The F-104 was the first combat aircraft capable of Mach 2 flight, and the only aircraft in history to simultaneously hold the world speed, rate-of climb and altitude records. [4] Three of the Century Series aircraft—F-101, F-102, and F-106—were armed with nuclear air-to-air missiles.
First purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier in 1946. [98] [99] 1945 [98] 1947 [34] [98] [99] 62 [34] [98] FJ-1 Fury: Fighter North American Aviation First jet aircraft in USN service to serve at sea under operational conditions. Also the first American jet fighter to employ a single, straight ram duct in its nose ...
F. Republic XF-12 Rainbow; Republic F-84 Thunderjet; Republic F-84F Thunderstreak; Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech; Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor; Republic XF-103; Republic F-105 Thunderchief; Fokker/Republic D-24 Alliance
The Republic of China Air Force received surplus F-84Gs from the USAF from 1953, [50] and during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1958, its F-84s engaging in air-to-air combat against People's Liberation Army Air Force MiG-15s and MiG-17 fighters, with losses on both sides. The Republic of China replaced its Thunderjets with F-100s from later ...
F-105D, 60-0508, at Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Denver, CO, formerly with 49th TFW (see photo details for service history) This article lists all 105 known surviving Republic F-105 Thunderchief complete airframes in the world as of May 2021, along with their serial number, location, and any notes of significance about that airframe. In ...
In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft from the second world war onwards are sorted into generations, from 1 to 5, based on technological level. [1] [2] An American F-16 fighter jet