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OK folks, I'm making the command decision to move this up to "Buzz-Worthy"
so it gets more exposure.
The Collings Foundation needs your help this week to make this happen.
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We are trying to return an F-105 to flying condition. Representative Niki
Tsongas (D-MA) has introduced legislation now being consider by House Armed
Services Committee to transfer an F-105 to the Collings Foundation. There
are 15 Medal of Honor winners and 120 former POW's who support this in
addition to all us rank and file folks.
We would appreciate your help, call Chairman Ike Skelton, Chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee, and tell Chairman Skelton's staff that you
want to be on record in support of Congresswomen Tsongas' Amendment to
transfer the F-105 to the Collings foundation. Call 202-225-2876 and voice
your support. The decision will be made this coming week.
Details and other information at:
http://collingsfoundation.org/enews/enewsletter_105.2010.htm
According to Medal of Honor recipient and 6-year Prisoner of War Colonel Leo
Thorsness (ret), "It is one thing to see "my" aircraft mounted on a pole or
gathering dust in a museum, quite another to see it roar down the runway and
take to the sky."
I asked my friend Ed - a 100 Missions F-105 over North Vietnam patch wearer
- what was the fastest he'd seen coming off a target clean. Here is his
response:
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The fastest I can remember coming off a target was seeing 750 knots
indicated which is about 860 MPH. That wasn't "clean" however. I still had a
pair of 450 gallon tanks, outboard pylons and the c/l MER. Typically we
would be running about 600 knots indicated inbound and planning to rejoin
off the target at 450 and head outbound at about 540. Those were very
comfortable speeds in the jet which was rock-steady at high speed and low
altitude. None of this was in A/B!!!!
Who out there wouldn't want to walk into an airshow and see this ready to
taxi? It's big, it's loud, it's fast, and it's bad. This ain't no sissy
little fly-by-wire electric ballerina stealth jet. This is a heavyweight
middle linebacker with a bad attitude, missing a couple of teeth, ready and
willing to go anywhere and take on anything - right in their face. Route
Pack VI? Hell yes, been there, let's go again.
This is the F-105 Thunderchief!
Reduced 42%
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1024 x 733 (225.28K)
Of 833 F-105's built, 382 were lost in Southeast Asia.
It seems like the least we could to to put one more of these birds back up
in the air as a tribute to those who originally flew her - and to the many
who never made it home.
I have no connections with the Collings Foundation at all, other than being
a fan of the history that they share with us at airshows and airport visits,
but with a little bit of effort we can all help make this happen. All it
will take is a couple of phone calls from as many people that we can get.
Time is of the essence though, the decision WILL be made THIS WEEK in
Washington.
Mike Kopack
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