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...joined another Huskie and an escort of American fighters that had picked up yet another urgent distress call-from a U.S. captain whose Thunderchief jet was shot down over the tangled jungle near Quangkhe. Sighting a signal fire that the captain had resourcefully lighted on the bank of a stream, one Huskie descended to 100 ft., hauled the captain into the chopper with a steel cable and winch. As he scrambled gratefully aboard, the rescued pilot cried to the crew, "I love you, I love...
...South Viet Nam. Near Bienhoa, a B57 crashed into the jungle with Capt. Fred C. Cutrer Jr. and Lieut. Leonard L. Kaster aboard. Hampered by Communist guerrillas, rescuers were unable to find the flyers. Flights of F-100 Super Sabre fighters, RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance planes and F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bombers swept out of the U.S. and streaked toward Pacific bases...
Most important, the record was made by a standard F-105 Thunderchief attached to the Tactical Air Command's 4th Fighter Wing, which had been in regular operation for some time...
Republic won the boost with a red-hot aircraft that can do everything but salute. Described by former Tactical Air Command Chief O. P. Weyland as "the world's most powerful one-man airplane," Republic's Thunderchief will fly 2,000 miles without refueling, hit speeds of Mach 2-plus (1,400 m.p.h.), go high or low and deliver any kind of a bang the Air Force wants. As a tactical strike aircraft in support of ground troops, it can whisk in with rockets, a 20-mm. cannon that fires at the rate of 6,000 rounds...
...government decides not to wait out that slim prospect, the R.C.A.F. is ready with three choices of aircraft, narrowed from an international list: Grumman's F11F-1F Super Tiger, Republic's F-105 Thunderchief and France's Dassault Mirage III. Whatever the choice, Ottawa would insist that Toronto's idle Avro plant be licensed to make it in Canada...