On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:51:24 +0000 (UTC), Merlin Dorfman
wrote:

Ed Rasimus wrote:
Ahh, now that I'm basking in the relative relief of a diligently
exercised kill-file, I've finally stopped screwing around and created
a Web site. www.thunderchief.org.

(I'm not really an entire ".org" all by myself, but someone years
earlier than I already grabbed onto the .com and .net domain names.)

Is "thud.com" taken? :-)

It probably is. It is a bit of an affectation I know, but I'm from the
period of F-105 drivers who don't use the term. If you've read "When
Thunder Rolled" you'll only find "Thud" used one time--that is in
reference to Thud Ridge, the landmark.

By late '66 and almost universally from '67 onward, the cross-trainees
that flowed into the aircraft began referring to it as the "Thud", but
if you talk to guys who were in the airplane prior to that time,
you'll find most of them calling it the "one-oh-five", the "'Chief",
the "Nickel" or some other pet name.

I've already got www.phantomflights.com in construction, focussed on
the new book as it gets closer to release. There is some info (and the
not-to-be-published pictures) from Phantom Flights on the
Thunderchief.org site. The cover blurbs from Walter Boyne, Mark
Berent, Tom Wilson, Dan Ford and Robin Olds are posted as well.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
"Phantom Flights, Bangkok Nights"
Both from Smithsonian Books
***www.thunderchief.org