On 22nd September 1950, an F-84 Thunderjet flown by Col. David Schilling made the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic by a jet aircraft. In 1948, the first ever crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by […]
Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, ´FU-66 / RA-T´, formerly Belgian Air Force, on display at the Kleine-Brogel air base, Belgium, September 2017. Thunderstreak, a fighter-bomber designed between 1948 and 1950, was a swept-wing version of an early […]
Republic F-84E Thunderjet ´FS-17 / DMB´ (c/n 2335-1366), formerly Belgian Air Force, on display at the Kleine-Brogel air base, Belgium, September 2017. Thunderjet was born in 1944, when the works on a turbojet-powered successor for […]
USAF tragic accident over Baden-Württemberg (Germany) The Republic F-84E Thunderjet (51-628) from 22nd Fighter-Bomber Squadron, deviated from its course, crossed the way of formation of four USAF Fairchild C-119C Flying Boxcar aircraft. While performing the […]
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