In the early days of the jet era, one fighter stood head and shoulders above the rest ... as the worst American fighter of the Cold War. The Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech was a well-intentioned ...

The United States Navy initially had an interest in a single-seat turboprop-powered carrier fighter-bomber aircraft that would not need catapult assistance and was compatible with the current fleet of ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Due to poor performance, high maintenance, and its other issues, the XF-84H never became operational. One of the two prototypes is now in the collection of the ...

There is no denying that the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak – which could attain speeds just shy of 700 mph – was an ideal aircraft when it entered service in 1950. Simply put, it terrorized the North ...

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy needed a carrier-based aircraft that could take off without the help of a catapult. What came out of that order was an Air Force plane with a propeller that spun ...

Sonic booms can be loud. Really loud. Commercial aviation was restricted from breaking the sound barrier after a handful of tests in the 1960s showed just how harmful going supersonic could be to ...

Planes are associated with loud noise, especially during take-off and landing that impacts the lives of those living near the airports. But nothing comes close to XF-84H Thunderscreech, a ...

Some amazing airplanes rolled off the factory floor at Republic Aviation's factory in Farmingdale, New York. Lots of their designs are well known and well celebrated. Like The mighty P-47 Thunderbolt, ...

In the optimistic afterglow following WW II, engineers made all kinds of aeroplanes. There were jet-powered seaplane fighters, planes that took off vertically from sitting on their tails, planes ...

The XF-84H was an ambitious project to reverse-engineer a jet-powered F-84 into a prop-driven aircraft capable of achieving near-jet performance. The United States Navy initially had an interest in a ...