Subject: Number 105 in the Series--Republic F-105 Thunderchief

From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Feb 94 17:21:12 GMT

>From [email-masked]

According to some authors, the designation F-105E was applied to a 
projected but unbuilt two-seat combat-capable version of the F-105D 
all-weather strike fighter.  However, other authors claim that it was 
to have been a two-seat advanced trainer version.  Whatever its 
intended mission, it was cancelled before anything could be built.  
According to William Green, a few F-105Es were actually in various 
stages of completion on the production line at Farmingdale when the 
project was cancelled.  These aircraft did not go to waste, since they 
were converted to standard F-105D configuration before completion.  

I have no other information on the F-105E.  Can anyone help?

Sources:

  United States Military Aircraft Since 1909, Gordon Swanborough and
  Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.

  The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, Orion, 1987.

  Fighters of the United States Air Force, Robert F. Dorr and
  David Donald, Temple Press Aerospace, 1990.

  American Combat Planes, Third Enlarged Edition, Ray Wagner, Doubleday,
  1982.

  The World Guide to Combat Planes, William Green, MacDonald, London, 1966

  The World's Fighting Planes, William Green, Doubleday, 1964.

  The Thunder Factory, Joshua Stoff, Motorbooks, 1990.

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