This pic shows a pair of Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks in flight, like te one flown by Richard Bach in Europe in the past century sixties... These ones seem to be part of the Montana ANG...

The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak was a though plane to fly, and Richard tells a lot about it in his book. It was smaller and lighter than her contemporary North American F-86 'Sabre', the hero in the Korean War, but not as succesfull in air combat...

Get through the book, if you have an aviator soul and have some knowledge about aircraft systems and operations. Fighters, in some way, are not much different than airliners when not fighting... You will be delighted with it...

Have a nice night.

TWRman