Upside down F-105 in Squadron ad

I suspect that it was 'caught' as it was rolling in on a target. Then too, the Air Force had a toss-bomb method of tactical nuclear delivery that involved a period of inverted flight. Still, I think the first scenario is correct.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Flying into the most heavily defended airspace in the world at the time ... it probably wasn't advisable to fly ' straight and level '.

Plus the F-105 in this depiction has a Mig-21 just to his 9:00 position. Well ... er um ... he is inverted ... so I guess the Mig is at his 3:00. ( by the way ... there is something odd looking about the Mig-21 in this painting ... the shape of the thing just isn't right )

In other words ... this ' dollar nickle ' pilot is in deep doo doo ... and it's " time to do some of that pilot shit " ... to quote Top Gun.

Looks like this Thud pilot could do a barrel roll ... come in behind the Mig and hose him down with some 20mm cannon fire.

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Chris

" snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net" wrote in news:2ed67839-6783-4360- snipped-for-privacy@b2g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

According to a book I read about Phantoms when doing a low altitude approach and pop up to bomb a target it was normal for some guys to go inverted so they could see the target as soon as they were high enough. After they pushed over they would flip rightside up keeping rhe target in view.

Just my .02.

The Thunderchief was was conceived in the 1950's as a nuclear strike aircraft. Penetrate enemy ( Russia ) territory and deliver a nuke weapon from it's internal bomb bay ... by a method something like this :

Although I believe the F-105 would pull up and ' toss ' the bomb and reverse course instead of the ' over the shoulder ' method described in the link. The F-105 driver would have time to escape as the ' weapon ' was slowed on it's decent to the ground by a parachute.

( I think it's time to go watch Dr. Strangelove )

Chris

CCBlack wrote: : : ( I think it's time to go watch Dr. Strangelove ) : Mind those mineshaft gaps!

Bruce