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Feb. 26 The Republic F-105 Thunderchief World's Most Powerful Fighter-Bomber Sleek, Saucy, Supersonic: The U.S Air Force's latest Sunday Punch is the supersonic F-105 Thunderchief - world's most powerful fighter-bomber, built by Republic Aviation Corporation, Farmingdale, L.I. and slated for service with USAF's Tactical Air Command. The new Century Series fighter was designed as a complete weapons system and is capable delivering heavy loads of nuclear or conventional weapons internally or externally over great distances at much faster-than-sound speeds. The single Pratt and Whitney J-75 turbojet engine develops pounds of thrust, not counting the added power of its afterburner. The Thunderchief incorporates many advanced design features such as swept-forward air-intake ducts located at the wing roots which inhale air at tremendous speeds without choking the engine with supersonic shock waves; an area rule or coke bottle shaped fuselage; a ventral fin on the bottom of the aft fuselage for greater stability; a one-piece flying tail and radically different clover-leaf speed brakes that form the last 36 inches of the fuselage and unfold like the petals of a blossoming flower when operated in flight. The F-105 is equipped for in-flight refuelling and has a drag chute for slowing down during landing. It is 63 feet long and has a wing span of nearly 35 feet. Its speed, armament, rate of climb and service ceiling are still on the secret list

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