Awesome site here:
Having spent over four years in South East Asia, knowing and talking with a lot of air crews, this account reads like fiction. I could not beleive some of the things he mentioned. No matter how heavy the F-105 was, the J-75 engine would get it off the ground in a hurrry. The slats had a air speed blow up sensor that would retract them at 280 KIAS along with the flaps. There is no way they would stay extended at 500 KIAS. Structural damage to the flaps and slats would result in tearing them loose from the aircraft. Good story, if you like fiction.