Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• The Seversky Years:
• The SEV-3
• The BT-8
• The P-35
• Severskys for export
• The P-35 in service
• Seversky racers
• The XP-41
• Corporate reorganization
• A new name
• Republic at War:
• The P-43 Lancer
• The P-44
• The P-47 conceived
• First trials
• Thunderbolts into service
• The P-47C and D
• Experimental and late-production Thunderbolts
• The XP-69
• The XP-72
• The P-47 in combat
• Ground-attack Thunderbolts
• Pacific Thunderbolts
• Peace: Surpluses and cancellations
• The XF-12 Rainbow
• A luxury airliner
• The 'Thunderbolt Amphibian'
• Cutting the costs
• The RC-3 Seabee
• The Jet Age:
• Go-ahead for the P-84
• Thunderjets roll
• The F-96
• The F-84G
• The Thunderjet at War
• The F-84F Thunderstreak
• The RF-84F Thunderflash
• FICON
• The F-84H
• The XF-91 Thunderceptor
• Flying the XF-91
• The XF-103
• Design changes
• The F-105 Thunderchief
• Area rule
• All-weather capability
• The F-105 in Vietnam
• Wild Weasel
• Spaceflight and Other Ventures:
• The JB-2
• Drones
• Diversification
• Subcontracts
• Terrapin and 'Dyna-Soar'
• Project 'Fire'
• MOL and AOSO
• Scramjet and Shuttle
• Republic in the Modern Era:
• VTOL fighter
• F-15 proposal
• The A-10 Thunderbolt II
• Simplicity and survivability
• Night/Adverse Weather variant
• The SF-340
• The T-46
• Contractor Review
• Finis
• Bibliography
• Index