When the Thunderbirds Flew the Thunderchief

著录项

• 来源
  《Air Power History》 |2009年第3期|p.14-25|共12页
• 作者

  W Howard; Plunkett;

  展开▼
• 作者单位

  W. Howard Plunkett is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. His twenty-year career as an aircraft maintenance officer began with F-105 Thunderchiefs in 1964. He received a degree in mathematics from Colgate University, was a distinguished graduate from Squadron Officers School, and earned an MS in Logistics Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He commanded the Avionics Maintenance Squadron at KunsanAB, Korea, and the Field Maintenance Squadron at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio;

  was an F-4 Avionics Staff Officer at HQ TAC;

  a depot inspector on the AFLC IG team;

  and a division chief at Hq AFOTEC. Since 1983, he has worked in the aerospace industry as a contract reliability engineer on Northrop-Grummaris B-2 stealth bomber and for other companies as a software QA manager, a logistics manager, a technical writer, and in business development. In 1994, he began a continuing study of the operational history of the F-105. His publications include two previous articles in Air Power History, two others in the Friends Journal of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, and a book, F-105 Thunderchiefs, A 29-Year Illustrated Operational History, published in 2001 by McFarland, detailing the histories of all surviving F-105s in museums and on static display around the world. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The author wishes to thank Brigadier General Paul A. Kauttu for providing critical details to and reviewing drafts of this article.;

  展开▼
• 收录信息
• 原文格式 PDF
• 正文语种 eng
• 中图分类
• 关键词