F-101 Voodoo | Supersonic Nuclear Armed Fighter Bomber And Photo Reconnaissance Aircraft

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The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo is a supersonic jet fighter which served the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
Initially designed by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation as a long-range bomber escort (known as a penetration fighter) for the USAF's Strategic Air Command (SAC), the Voodoo was instead developed as a nuclear-armed fighter-bomber for the USAF's Tactical Air Command (TAC), and as a photo reconnaissance aircraft based on the same airframe. An F-101A set a number of world speed records for jet-powered aircraft, including fastest airspeed, attaining 1,207.6 miles (1,943.4 km) per hour on 12 December 1957. They operated in the reconnaissance role until 1979.
Delays in the 1954 interceptor project led to demands for an interim interceptor aircraft design, a role that was eventually won by the B model of the Voodoo. This required extensive modifications to add a large radar to the nose of the aircraft, a second crew member to operate it, and a new weapons bay using a rotating door that kept its four AIM-4 Falcon missiles or two AIR-2 Genie rockets hidden within the airframe until it was time to be fired. The F-101B entered service with USAF Air Defense Command in 1959 and the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1961. US examples were handed off to the USAF Air National Guard where they served until 1982. Canadian examples remained in service until 1984.
The Voodoo's career as a fighter-bomber was relatively brief, but the reconnaissance versions served for some time. Along with the US Air Force's Lockheed U-2 and US Navy's Vought RF-8 Crusaders, the RF-101 reconnaissance variant of the Voodoo was instrumental during the Cuban Missile Crisis and saw extensive service during the Vietnam War. Interceptor versions served with the Air National Guard until 1982, and in Canadian service, they were a front line part of NORAD until their replacement with the CF-18 Hornet in the 1980s.
While the Voodoo was a moderate success, it may have been more important as an evolutionary step towards its replacement in most roles, the F-4 Phantom II, one of the most successful Western fighter designs of the 1950s. The Phantom would retain the twin engines, twin crew for interception duties, and a tail mounted well above and behind the jet exhaust but was an evolution of the F3H Demon while the Voodoo was developed from the earlier XF-88 Voodoo.
Initial design on what would eventually become the Voodoo began just after World War II in response to a USAAF Penetration Fighter Competition in 1946. This called for a long-range, high-performance fighter to escort a new generation of bombers, much as the North American P-51 Mustang had escorted the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators in World War II. Several companies responded with designs, and the Air Force provided funds for several of them to produce prototypes.
After being awarded a contract (AC-14582) on 14 February 1947, McDonnell built two prototypes, designated the XF-88 Voodoo. The first prototype (serial number 46-6525), powered by two 3,000 lbf (13.3 kN) Westinghouse XJ34-WE-13 turbojets, flew from Muroc on 20 October 1948. Preliminary testing revealed that while handling and range was adequate, the top speed was a disappointing 641 mph (1,032 km/h) at sea level. After fitting McDonnell-designed afterburners to the second prototype, thrust was increased to 3,600 lbf (16.1 kN) with corresponding performance increases in top speed, initial rate of climb and reduced takeoff distance. Fuel consumption was greatly increased by use of the afterburners, however, reducing the range.
General characteristics
Crew: 2
Length: 67 ft 5 in (20.55 m)
Wingspan: 39 ft 8 in (12.09 m)
Height: 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m)
Wing area: 368 sq ft (34.2 m2)
Airfoil: root: NACA 65A007 (modified); tip: NACA 65A006 (modified)[43]
Empty weight: 28,495 lb (12,925 kg)
Gross weight: 45,665 lb (20,713 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 52,400 lb (23,768 kg)
Fuel capacity: 2,053 US gal (1,709 imp gal; 7,770 l) internals plus 2x optional 450 US gal (370 imp gal; 1,700 l) drop-tanks
Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney J57-P-55 afterburning turbojet engines, 11,990 lbf (53.3 kN) thrust each dry, 16,900 lbf (75 kN) with afterburner
Performance
Maximum speed: 1,134 mph (1,825 km/h, 985 kn) at 35,000 ft (11,000 m)
Maximum speed: Mach 1.72
Range: 1,520 mi (2,450 km, 1,320 nmi)
Service ceiling: 58,400 ft (17,800 m)
Wing loading: 124 lb/sq ft (610 kg/m2)
Thrust/weight: 0.74
Armament
Missiles: 4 (originally 6)× AIM-4 Falcon, or 2× AIR-2 Genie nuclear rockets, plus 2× AIM-4 Falcon
Avionics
Hughes MG-13 fire control system
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@Dronescapes Год назад

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@blowmeyotbweknowugoodfklit2549 Год назад

I grew up in New Brunswick and lived between Loring air force base and the catham air force base in Canada. Watch them fly over they would buzz the US base then the fight was on they would go practice dog fighting in the mountains. Got to see lots of crazy stuff.

@22keninnh 7 месяцев назад

@derekheuring2984 Год назад

I'll never forget 1961 when the RCAF took the F 101 on strength. It was the Canadian pilot's first supersonic aircraft and they reveled in bombarding us civilians with sonic booms. Even when supersonic was banned over land they would take off from CFB Comox and within minutes were over Georgia Strait breaking the sound barrier. I miss the old days!

@embreeja Год назад

In 1957 I was 6 years old, living in Pasadena, Ca. Edwards AFB was just over the mountain. My parents were in their 30's. We would sometimes hear sonic booms and look up. Now at 71 years old (my mom is now 96), it is amazing to me how amazing the 'state of technology' was at that time --- and I now think of how 'old' a '57 Chevy is, an antique --- yet these guys were flying these machines at that same time. We (Elon Musk) will soon attempt to send a mission to Mars. I am truly blessed to have lived during these times, and owe a lot to these people. I sometimes think my government has recently become a bunch of corrupt buffoons, but still hold out hope because of the knowledge that we once did great things and will do them again.

@MikeinVirginia1 Год назад

I'm right behind you -- I'm 70 and my Mom is alive and 95! 😊

@therealniksongs Год назад

Definitely with you, especially on the corrupt buffoons part.

@kamakaziozzie3038 Год назад

@@therealniksongs no worries. They got out with the investment money plus the vig

@solidlift Год назад

Would've been amazing to hear those booms!

@altoncrane9714 Год назад

Oh yes, I was i year old in 57, agree with the buffoons for sure, not a doubt that is being polite at that.

@StarShine-Ranch Год назад

As a kid, my favorite model airplane was the Voodoo. I thought it's shape was the most beautiful of all, like a work of art. Liked the name, too!

@stuarthart3370 Год назад

It looked as mean as a shark, and indeed I think some believed the design team modelled it on a real shark LOL It was light years ahead in looks. Great plane

@blooeagle5118 Год назад

My grandfather flew this plane in the RCAF! 416 Sqdn I believe. He held the same sentiment about it having to be flown a certain way. He used to say that at some point in every flight it would try to kill you. He was selected to fly the AVRO CF-105 Arrow before it was canned up here in Canada. After his service he spent decades flying commercial for Air Canada. I really wish I could have known him, he died when I was about ten years old or so. The stories I hear about him are incredible, and from what I hear he was an exceptional pilot. Thanks for posting info about this usually forgotten air craft!

@mandtgrant Год назад

In 1977, as a Sea Cadet at summer camp in HMCS Quadra in Comox BC, we took a firefighting course at CFB Comox. While the course was underway, the two Voodoos in the quick reaction area were scrambled. They were airborne in a ridiculously short distance, then went into a steep climb. They told us that they climbed so steeply to keep them from going supersonic so close to town

@yetiatlarge555 Год назад

Thank you for keeping this information alive. I personally appreciate your focus on the pilot's point of view and operational environment. The reality of looking from the inside out really changes our appreciation of the difficulties of operating these century serries jets. Really tough job!!!

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@Chuck59ish Год назад

I served in 416 (AW) Squadron of the RCAF from 1982 to 1984, during that time we had a Voodoo catch on fire during takeoff, the fire was extingiushed and the airframe stripped of everything usable and the airframe was given to the fiirefighters for practice. With the squadron watching they set it on fire and they found out very quickly that the main airframe was a magnesium alloy and it went up in less than 30 seconds. And on the TV show My Three Sons, Fred McMurray's character was and McDonnell-Douglas Engineer at March AFB working on the F-101 Voodoos.

@frankpienkosky5688 Год назад

remember this plane from "The Russians are Coming!....The Russians are Coming!"

@104thDIVTimberwolf Год назад

The One-Oh-Wonder has been my favorite plane since I was a little kid and used to go to the Portland Air National Guard base to watch them take off. It never made sense to me that they didn't light their afterburners until they rotated, but it was so cool to watch and when the thump of the ab hit you in the chest nothing else seemed to matter.

@unclefart5527 Год назад

I was squatting on the balls of feet at an airshow when they made passes lighting the burners. I fell over backwards with the camera much to the delight of the crowd. Did get some pictures though.

@user-uv1fp9ho1j Год назад

Thanks for this through review. It really made my dad's day. He flew the F-101B, after transitioning from the F-89D/H/J. He was RO in both. At one point, TDY to Korea, he flew with, then, Maj Adrian Drew who you mentioned set the absolute speed record. Worth noting, Drew said that A model was fitted with the more powerful engines destined for the B model. He also mentioned that at one point he'd momentarily exceeded max temp on one of the engines. This was revealed upon review of the film from the cockpit camera aimed at the instrument panel. Drew hadn't noticed the overtemp at the time and said he was lucky not to have blown up. Finally, the canopy frame was generating enough lift during the run that it lifted away from the windscreen frame enough that he could have fit his hand through there, if he'd wanted. Dad understands this lead to a strengthening of the canopy hold-down mechanism. He said the single-stage afterburners did take some getting used to as it was a "blam! blam!" kick in the pants as each lit. Latter aircraft adopted the soft light burners. Dad compliments you on your thoroughness! He added: The back seat "...had a removable lap clipboard which gave the RO some navigational capability, a workplace for maps, celestial comps., etc. which only I ever used and then only once. The aircraft could have been placed on Combat Air Patrol (CAP) several hundred miles out in the Atlantic for use with the AWACS aircraft to engage Soviet bombers long before they could reach the US coast and there was some talk of doing that. It was equipped with both boom and probe and drogue refueling, had significant range; and the ROs were all trained navigators, but it never went further than talk. In the F-89 I had developed the capability to keep track of our position with a navigation technique called Air Plot and always knew precisely where we were using only a leg clipboard; however flying the 101 around the Great Lakes I could do that simply by looking at the radar so no use for the lap clipboard. When flying the 101F (had controls in the RO cockpit) the only difference I ever realized was that I could fly the aircraft, neat because that way I already had some prior jet stick time when I later went to the RF4C, a significant advantage." Note: He flew 89's out of Orlando and 101s out of Wurtsmith.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@CSltz Год назад

My farther may have kept his airplane flying. We were at Wurtsmith around 66-68 and then again 70-72. Elmer Stolte M/sgt. Material Control.

@user-uv1fp9ho1j Год назад

@@CSltz Almost certainly! We moved from Wurthsmith to Bergstron in 67 to transition to RF-4C's. Ask your dad if he knew someone they nicknamed "Captain Tubes" because he used the relief tube on every single flight. What was your dad's job's nickname? I recall crew chief was "Medicine Man" ha ha. They even had patches made. Look up "F-101 medicine man patch" My dad has his career flight log. Amazingly, it has all his tail numbers and hours going back to early nav training in B-25's. If your dad has any records of tail numbers, we could match them up.

@user-uv1fp9ho1j Год назад

@@CSltz I spoke with dad and he said all the maintenance personnel were each Medicine Men, and wore those patches. The pilot was the 101-Wonder, and dad was Scope Wizard. He said "it was a SAC base and we were the only fighter squadron there. So, we (the 445th FIS) were a tenant organization on a SAC base. I don't recognize his name but there were three B-52 squadrons and only one fighter squadron. So, he could have been with either command." After running the dates, however, we left in May of 65. So, before your dad got there.

@danielmorgan1104 Год назад

@@user-uv1fp9ho1j My dad was a Scope Wizard as well. He was a qualified instructor/trainer and often travelled TDY to qualify other RO/WO's on updated equipment. From what I am aware, the "Scope Wizards" were a tight bunch and chances are your dad and mine probably met at some point. Funny, when you mentioned that your dad was a "Scope Wizard" I recall seeing that patch on my dad's flight suit. I believe that my sister still has all of his patches.

@tkskagen Год назад

YES! Finally, a video regarding the F-101 Voodoo.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@John_Mack Год назад

Love the sound of a Voodoo... We have one of these bad boys on display at the Halifax Airport Air Museum.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@lessharratt8719 Год назад

I want to see that bad boy. On my bucket list.

@Nimitz0609 10 месяцев назад

F-100 ,F-101 ,F-102 ,F-104 and F-106 these are developing advanced fighter jet era of USA. 😊

@wojciechkoska3515 Год назад

I love those manual operation instructional films from 50's and 60's. Thank you.👍

@Dronescapes Год назад

Glad you like them!

@danielmorgan1104 Год назад

My dad was a Radar/Weapons Officer on a F-101B Voodoo. We were stationed at Griffiss AFB in Rome, NY & Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, OR. He was killed at Kingsley Field in November of 1968 due to a failure of a critical flight system at take off (Mechanic failed to use appropriate parts on the Aileron control linkages). Ironically enough he was slated for F-4 Phantom pilot qualification in January of 1969 then do a tour in Vietnam afterwards.

@Dronescapes Год назад

Thanks for sharing

@danielmorgan1104 Год назад

@@Dronescapes I have pictures of my dad's plane that were taken as it was taxiing in from a landing and still has the drag chute still deployed. The picture was taken a few days before the crash. It shows the aircraft Tail ID# on it. My dad was not only a qualified RO/WO instructor but also a Qualified Flight instructor as well. He was qualifying a pilot in transition from a different AC to the 101 at the time, right before the accident. If you would like I can forward images to you to add to your 101B photo collection.

@joshuathomas8529 Год назад

Finally a good documentary of the F101.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@raynus1160 Год назад

Great photo at 14:19. The Voodoo's silhouette is unmistakable.

@robertpearson8798 Год назад

I used to love seeing these at the Hamilton International Airshow back in the early 80’s, before they were retired. The pilots used to like to put them into a climb and light the afterburners to give the crowd a nice thump in the chest. I also remember seeing them at the 1964 Hamilton airshow along with 104’s and the Golden Knights F-86 aerobatic team. There’s a CF-101 on outdoor display at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario (sans engines).

@MaithriSanitgun Год назад

When the Air Force was spending over half the US defense budget every year in the 1950's trying to come up with a way to stop Soviet bombers coming over the North Pole to nuke the cities of America, they came up with the F-101 and the F-102/104, both basically flying fuel tanks with supersonic dash capability and tube powered radars that could hopefully intercept the Bear's and Bison's over Arctic Canada and shoot them down with nuclear weapon tipped Genie missiles without killing too many Eskimos. Nobody thought there would be dogfights any more and guns were passe'. All were built around available engines which developed fast. It was an amazing time to be an aeronautical engineer.

@mikem.s.1183 Месяц назад

@dronescapes, Another excellent documentary. Thank you.

@guarmiron5557 Год назад

The Voodoo had a unique engine noise. You didn't even have to look up to know one was flying near you.

@BradiKal61 Год назад

My dad flew USAF 101s in the early 60s out of RAF Bentwaters in England. He also flew the F-100 and the F-4.

@natural-born_pilot Год назад

You mention that a small number of F-101B’s were used after its retirement for interceptor training until 82 which was only a small part of its main function. The other function and important one that deserves recognition was highly used since the 60’s at the Air Defense Weapons Center, Tyndall AFB, FL. The F-101B was the main tow tractor aircraft carrying a 2,000 lb tow reel system installed on its centerline. This tow system carried a spool of over 60,000 ft of steel stranded step lined spliced cable of various diameters for towing rocket shaped radar and IR targets that were launched and towed 5 miles in trail over the range. The tow reel was operated from the back seat by a Tow Systems Operator using two panels consisting of control switches and monitoring gauges installed in the right hand console. This tow system was extensively used over two decades to test air to air missiles, provide air crew proficiency and qualification in live fire and a main event during ADC’s William Tell competitions held there. This tow system with a few modifications and larger cable carried under the voodoo was later tested and used extensively for the F-106 Sixgun program and , at the time, new F-15 Eagle gun platform towing a 30 ft long tri wing design fiberglass gunnery target equipped with a bullet scoring system recorded by ground telemetry. The target was connected to the tow reel and drug 100 ft behind the 101 on take off and subsequently reeled out to 2,000 ft over the range for the gunnery passes. The 101 would initiate a tight 5G turn while the attacking fighter approached off beam from head on to perform its gun pass. I feel it’s only fair to describe all of the functions this great fighter proudly served the USAF. The comments section here includes a few unsupported statements eluding to the Voodoo being a poor flying fighter and severe expense burden to our nation which is totally incorrect. Those that possess the knowledge of the F-101’s entire history can vouch for the fact that the USAF got the max from its investment over the many years it served. This is one of the Air Force’s jet fighters that never receives all the due credit deserving of it and is rarely heard of. The best most enjoyable 7 years of my entire Air Force career was a Tow Systems Operator in the One-O-Wonder.

@OdeeOz Год назад

The Voodoo was the main Fighter at Kingsley Field, Oregon from 1958 through 1968. They'd disrupt school and businesses as well as ranches when young pilots cracked the sound barrier over town. Man what a great era to grow up in. ⭐🤠🐴🍿🐎🍿🐎

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@thomasmoje5926 Год назад

I remember the F101 Voodoos flown out of an Air Force Reserve base I used to live near to. Their takeoffs often took them right over our house. Very impressive aircraft. The Voodoos were later replaced by F-4 Phantoms then the last fighter aircraft the unit flew were F-16's.

@ifly135 Год назад

Thanks for making this! My Dad worked on the ejection seats on the RF-101's with the KY ANG.

@Dronescapes Год назад

Our pleasure!

@ziggle314 8 месяцев назад

One of my first bosses was a control systems guy who worked on the flight control system for the F-101. He always talked about how interesting the analog electronics was on that aircraft.

@petewarrell228 Год назад

Growing up in NOVA SCOTIA dad Was at CFB SHEARWATER we lived In COLE HABOUR the flight route went over our house voodoos were not based there but would viset often.. Wonderful sound...most times wepud be 4 jets 2 side by side ..and to hear the sonic boom was amazing...great child hood aircraft everyday❤🇨🇦👋👍✌🙏

@ernestoschmid2544 Год назад

Wonderful documentary. Many thanks.

@Dronescapes Год назад

Many thanks Ernesto!

@Kyanzes Год назад

Fascinating plane! Real 60s Cold War tech. Flew with the USAF until '72 and with the National Guard until '82.

@donwyoming1936 Год назад

Fell in love with the Voodoo on display at Lowry AFB. One sexy jet.

@danpatterson8009 Год назад

In 1995 I spent three weeks wandering around Hawaii. Pushing a dirt road on the north shore of Oahu I passed a tiny airport and sitting outside a hangar was a very beat-up Voodoo. Close up the plane was a total wreck, no engines, etc. Inside the hangar a guy was restoring a Corsair. I really must scan those slides someday.

@hawnyfox3411 Год назад

F.F.S Dan, hurry up & get those scans/slides (you've yet to do), uploaded, for ALL F.101 "fans" I saw two, different decades, BOTH FLYING, airborne & smoking like f--k (smoke trails) One was on 26th Aug' 1978 at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, a former F.101 base ((long after R't'ment) Greatest sighting I ever saw, as it lifted-off behind the trees in the Rendlesham Forest** **(I believe the famous/infamous U.F.O sighting at Rendlesham took place in 1980 ?) Curiously, I saw yet another some 3 yrs later, over Hendon in London, of all places !! Initially, I wasn't gonna bother looking up, as I figured "Nah, it'll be an airliner" Maaan, I nearly choked on my burger as I looked up & saw it flying medium altitude, below clouds To this day, I have ZERO idea what it WAS doing over Central London, but it was flagrantly an F.101 That was in spring 1981, so I figured it might be a visiting Canadian one, as USAF had retired theirs It wasn't until 1990 that I finaly got to see an F.101 "on the ground" & was able to walk around it. (it was at the "Midland Air Museum" near Birmingham/Covenrty in England) Have always LOVED the F.101 Voodoo, purely because of it's bizarre, but very attractive shape. I even got to buy/build some of the Monogram 1/48th F.101's & I still have a few....

@user-fd1tq1kz2q Год назад

Thank you for for all the facts on the voodoo. Stateside I worked the B models at Lockborne A.F.B. During my time there all our aircraft where constantly going thru wiring and system changes while maintaining our operational numbers and alert planes. Worked a lot of hours and into the night for lots of weeks. Thanks again.

@Dronescapes Год назад

You are welcome. thanks for the kind comment

@PacificAirwave144 Год назад

Just a kid in the late-70's and there was a F-101 on a stand outside of OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry). Oh man that thing was huge.and beauttiful! I was a kid, and it was getting to be an old jet then but it looked like a rocket ship! Looks right, flies right--it had both! 14:25 in this clip and look at that shadow!

@neilhaas Год назад

Love the F101 Voodoo lovely jet two engines afterburners & air intakes. 🇺🇲🇨🇦❤️👍🤗😁 Wonderful documentary & history of this jet two seater, single seater. The armaments also are important.

@Dronescapes Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@youtube.youtube.01 Год назад

I saw these Voodoos flying at Ellington AFB for the 147th Reserve Air Fighter Group. At an airshow, i met one of the pilots, who was humble gentlemen that commanded respect and admiration. (Not the Tom Cruise Character type seen on Top Gun) There is a Voodoo at Stinson Air Field in San Antonio, Texas that needs volunteers to give her a paint job.

@jeffkolln5291 Год назад

The F-101's that went to Bergstrom; only 2 arrived (plus 1 loaned trainer) when it was still a Strategic Fighter Wing, within a short time it became a Fighter-Bomber Wing, and then it became Tactical Air Command before they were all sent to the 81st TFW in England.

@rudedog302 Год назад

I overhauled, worked test cell, and line maintenance on J-57s on Buffs, and KC-135s from 81-85, that last part of the video brought back memories. We would get Canadian Voodoos transient on occasion at my base before they phased them out. The hot streak ignition for the AB was one of my favorites, loud bang as it lit. We had two of them make a low level pass over our ramp on afternoon, they lit their burners right over our heads while going practically vertical. Looking straight up those tail pipes while they were in burner was so cool. I worked on the water injected version of the same engine, which was not as cool.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@OpaKnows Год назад

Brother joined Canadian Armed Forces in 1980 and started as aero engine tech on the Voodoos, switched over to the F18’s soon after as a result of the F101 being retired. Typical Canadian (or any) gov’t thinking: don’t get anything that is best for the job; just get something that can barely qualify in each area. As a result, it was woefully inadequate in everything it did, except maybe carrying nukes. Kept it in the Forces way too long. CDN pilots thought it was a joke, but did the best they could with it. I will say, they were under pressure from the US to buy their used F101’s instead of getting something eminently more suitable for its Canadian role. Pressure continues today, as evidenced from Canada’s “decision” to purchase F35’s.

@Dronescapes Год назад

Thanks for sharing your knowledge Opa

@JackNiles-hc8yz 4 месяца назад

Yes, the Canadians could have bought the F-106, but they couldn't even afford the Arrow, so that was out. The Voodoo wasn't "woefully inadequate", and I seriously doubt that the Canadian pilots who flew it though it was a "joke" either. I've never heard any USAF fighter pilot refer to the Voodoo as a "joke".

@leohorishny9561 Год назад

Growing up, in the 60s and 70s I remember visiting the Nevada Air National Guard base on a grade school field trip to learn about the camera capabilities and various uses of a photo reconnaissance airplane squadron. The Voodoo was their main aircraft. I thought it was a cool looking plane at the time. Still do! I also remember hearing them fire afterburners and take off from the Reno Airport where the Guard was based, you could hear them echo through the whole valley! I also remember hearing sonic booms from time to time.👍

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@ughleegamer5598 Год назад

The old instructional video is hella cool.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@davidargon6623 Год назад

I agree. Remember to have a protractor handy!

@larrysteimle2004 Год назад

Very interesting. I was an airman 1954-1958, trained at Lowry AFB on F-86D, 94C, 89D radar fire control systems...Hughes E4,5,6. It all looks pretty ancient compared to today's technology. Thanks DroneScapes!

@Dronescapes Год назад

Thanks for sharing

@wjewell63 Год назад

This is a great channel... thanks

@Dronescapes Год назад

Thank you 🙏

@MDAdams72668 Год назад

Even more amazing is that they were able to produce as many as they did when today you hope to rebuild one in 3+ years

@tomg6286 Год назад

We sent our RF-101's from Misawa AB in Japan to Danang, Vietnam early 1963

@MrGchiasson Год назад

When I was in the 1st grade..in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba US Navy base...back in 61' our class was given a tour of the air base...we sat in a 'Voodoo' interceptor. It looked like something out of a Sci-Fi movie to us.

@elijahhodges4405 Год назад

You know you have a great plane when it is so feared by the enemy that they never attacked it.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@charlesrousseau6837 Год назад

Excellent video package, which reminds us that - certainly now as well as in the fifties - freedom does not come for free.

@Dronescapes Год назад

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@Bass_Playa_Two_Point.O Год назад

My dad was a Voodoo Scope Wizard when I was born. We were stationed at an air base in Charleston S.C.

@done.6191 Год назад

The familiarization video is a hoot.

@jackriley5974 9 месяцев назад

The most impressive feature of the Voodoo was the pilot! Flying a pre-strike recon was probably a butt pucker, but at least you weren't expected. Flying an after strike recon the VC knew you were returning, and your side arm was for moral support only. The damage shown at 15:00 is "merely a flesh wound" compared to what happened to many of them! The experience apparently changed the perspective of some as they could be found in Saigon bars with us minions. Great guys all !!

@fawnlliebowitz1772 8 месяцев назад

Beautiful bird and had more weight to thrust ratio but yet was a tad slower than the F8 Crusader.

@terrysmith8758 Год назад

What an exciting time in aircraft design

@afghanlatest4103 Год назад

Such a beautiful bird way over its time

@ericswain70 Год назад

We got a Voodoo gate guard here at CFB North Bay Ontario

@Dronescapes Год назад

👍👍♥️

@bobjonsun4201 Год назад

I love the name F101 Voodoo!

@104thDIVTimberwolf Год назад

I'd love to talk to a pilot who has flown both Voodoos and Super Sabers about the differences in flight characteristics (which beast was less forgiving, for example). When I was in the Air Force (late 1980s) I did meet and talk to such a pilot, but there are so many more questions I wish I had asked. His favorite fighter was the F-106, by the way.

@myronpross814 Год назад

I reminisced with Col. Ed Bolin who flew P40's and P51's in China then most post war USAF jets. F84's, F101's, F102's, F106's, F4's and A7's. He rated the Convair interceptors highly and McDonnell pair at the bottom as unmaneuverable bricks and the 101 a handful to fly subsonic.

@craigwall9536 Год назад

I knew one: Peter Fleischhaker- he's now in Florida and near the end. He flew 101's up on the Dew Line with the Genie nuclear missile for bomber interception, and the Hun in Vietnam doing close air support. He got a medal for coaching a wingmate home with a blown thrust bearing in the VooDoo because he had worked out a method of landing with enough thrust to hold the bearing together until they got on the ground and power could be reduced...whereupon the bearing loads reversed, the engine seized and torque blew a tire on rollout. You might look that up. I think he got a medal in Vietnam, too, for "filling a 'Cong trench level" with napalm one night. They had to fly between trees several times to get it done...

@captainmanic1959 Год назад

The 27th gave up their F-101 fleet In February 1959 when they were deactivated at Bergstrom and simultaneously reactivated at Cannon AFB where they took over everything from the 312th TFW which was then retired.

@jeffkolln5291 Год назад

All the 27th's F-101 aircraft went to the 81st TFW at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. No 101's were ever stationed at Cannon, they became an F-100 Wing. Cannon had 1 F-101 on display and they manged to destroy it in moving it.

@pedrotome9119 Год назад

How good is for a person as myself to be able to know a little more about aircrafts and all these endless matters. Having no knowledge or academic possibilities of learning more...

@natural-born_pilot Год назад

The possibilities are always there you just have to apply yourself and go for it.

@stephenwalsh1332triumph Год назад

Cool name's for jet fighters🦇

@marlonb.8243 Год назад

I knew a man who flew the F-101. He was a class human being; a very nice man. He told everybody he liked to fly fast. He served in Vietnam.

@Dronescapes Год назад

Do you remember his name?

@3flyte_3flyte Год назад

@@Dronescapes Yes. Jim. He passed away some years ago. He knew Earl Woods when Earl was a Green Beret. He was very fond of Earl's son and was a great fan of the young man, watching him develop into a great golfer. The young man could do no wrong in his eyes. He also knew John McCain. Bless their souls. They made America great; not the party they once knew. He watches over me, you know. Comes around every once in a while, his spirit. A good man. He once described how the thrust would outrun the plane, making it pitch up and cartwheel. He called it "departing" although he never once made the jet depart like that. The plane was overpowered but he liked to fly fast. He flew low and fast, clipping vegetation with his wings.

@jdmmike7225 Год назад

Beautiful plane. One of the last high T tail fighters before the English Electric Lightning ushered in the low wing/low tail design that Mach 2+ fighter took on after it premiered.

@Dronescapes Год назад

Thanks for the info!

@JackNiles-hc8yz 4 месяца назад

Nobody ever patterned their designs after the Lightning. It was a technological dead-end.

@MikeG42 Год назад

Good video DroneScapes , cool warbird.😊👍

@Dronescapes Год назад

Thanks Mike 👍

@MikeG42 Год назад

@@Dronescapes you're welcome

@MiKeMiDNiTe-77 Год назад

I've always loved the look of this great aircraft..the mighty Voodoo Yeeaahh

@Dronescapes Год назад

👍👍

@jimigreen2050 Год назад

I worked the engines in the f4e and f4gs those were j79-17 those aircraft flew at Mach 2.5 with 13,500 lbs of Thurston each which was probably the daddy of the j57

@jimigreen2050 Год назад

Thrust I almost had to whip my keyboard just to write thurst

@natural-born_pilot Год назад

We knew what you meant Jimi no sweat. My key board is notorious for that and tries it on me all the time.

@frankfrankly1366 Год назад

I remember seeing these fly over when I was a kid. Somtimes we were treated with a sonic boom. Everyone said they were interceptors.

@neilhaas Год назад

Besides the F100 Super Saber & F102, F106 Delta Dart nice jets. The F104 too. I want the die cast model for myself.

@soundpainter2590 Год назад

@neilhass Well OK... You can have it. & I know, It's advertised as "Die Cast", But actually slightly depleted uranium. To give it "Authentic weight." Enjoy responsibly ! (( IF you order you'll receive the new Tungsten lawn darts ! ))

@ButchNackley Год назад

I'd like to see a high fidelity model of the RF-101 for MSFS 2020.

@slowneutron6163 Год назад

Thorough!

@Dronescapes Год назад

👍🙏

@Coyote27981 Год назад

You can really see the Voodoo being the predecessor of the Phantom, many of the same shapes and layout are there... But improved on the Phantom.

@danielmorgan1104 Год назад

I'm curious if anyone posting here might have been stationed with my dad, either at Griffiss AFB Rome NY or Kingsley Field Klamath Falls, OR. I remember the squadron he was stationed in Oregon was the 59th FIS "Freicudan Du" or nicknamed the "Bacardi Bat" Squadron. I do not recall what FIS he was with at Griffiss AFB. At the time of my Dad's death he was a Captain.

@mackjsm7105 Год назад

Get the latest variant of this.. paint it gray.. will look VERY modern.

@djpalindrome Год назад

It’s always pronounced “Sack”. Nobody but a computer ever said S-A-C

@Dg-zj6jo Год назад

brilliant sir all this work and the uk builds mosque not aircraft now what went wrong in the wind tunnel sir

@ronaldrose6885 11 месяцев назад

Almost a full voodoo is at O'Riley 😂😂aviation Kissimmee FL.

@kylehudson4878 Год назад

I was there a few years ago to deliver some large wood crates that I wasn't told what it was and when I asked the guy unloading my flatbed if it was a drone air strip because it was such a short runway all he said was yeah something like that

@verxzz Год назад

I want to buy it but the livery is making me don’t wanna buy it btw great video 👍

@verxzz Год назад

I commented on the wrong video 😑 still nice video

@PavewayJDAM Год назад

F-101 was the F-4 before the F-4 was around.

@ILSRWY4 9 месяцев назад

there is an old saying.. "the F-4 is a fixed F-101 and the F-15 is an F-4 on Steriods."

@juniorwest5706 Год назад

Jesus , after checking everything in the cockpit the fucking war would be over !

@ILSRWY4 9 месяцев назад

there is a difference between peace time ops and scramble missions.

@Pidxr Год назад

We should drop at once over VPloxo and everywhere he may be, dacha or nyet

@jjanderson121079 4 месяца назад

What's the music at 1 hour 4mins?

@alpengewitter 11 месяцев назад

The Phantom army Engine?

@charlie44266 Год назад

Where is Arr-Kansas?? Is that a pirate republic?

@Erasmuspipebagger1 Год назад

Even to a Brit, that stuck out like a sore thumb to me!

@carlhull8276 Год назад

I was on a hill in Eastern Washington outside of a com-van

@carlhull8276 Год назад

Oops...and a Voodoo snuck on our hilltop and aimed his plane straight up and popped on his after burners___KA BOOM! Got to look straight into those pipes!!! AWESOME

@natural-born_pilot Год назад

Hmm first I heard of a voodoo able to climb hills and mountains?

@carlhull8276 Год назад

@@natural-born_pilot not the export model bozo

@lightbox617 Год назад

Is it correct that at least 1 F-101 was lost on a recon mission over Cuba during the Crises?

@richardkrammes2222 Год назад

Yes. The F 101 were based at Shaw AFB in South Carolina during the Cuban missal crisis. At least one F 101 was lost and some had holes in their fuselages on return to base. I was an Electronic Countermeasures Repairman on the F 101 at that time. We were called Voodoo Medicine Men.

@socaljarhead7670 Год назад

One-oh-wonder.

@williamgregoire450 3 месяца назад

Was called the widow maker.

@noahsaunders3919 Год назад

"The One-Oh-Wonder" 🇺🇸🇨🇦...

@raymondyee2008 Год назад

She’s better remembered as the RF-101 because of the missions in Vietnam.

@ILSRWY4 9 месяцев назад

That's true in America. But the Canadians remember it in a different way. Either way, it served in the Recce roll because it never really did anything else better. It was a deeply flawed aircraft, that suffered from engine stalls which were never really completely fixed, it suffered from the dreaded and deadly pitch up phenomenon that was never fixed and only masked by a warning system, it never fulfilled the roll it was intended... the air superiority roll, it couldn't fulfill the TAC roll because it lacked the ability to carry a large variaty of weapons. that left it as an intercepter and photo recce plane.

@elliotjoseph6093 Год назад

The C kinda looks like the F-4 Phantom.

@tkskagen Год назад

Is the F-101 Voodoo the "precursor" to the F-4 Phantom?

@BradiKal61 Год назад

Both were McDonnell Douglas planes. Close if not sequential

@ILSRWY4 9 месяцев назад

Yes, all the problems and defencies the 101 suffered were fixed in the F-4. In fact there is old saying "the F-4 is a fixed 101, and F-15 is an F-4 on steriods"

@ILSRWY4 9 месяцев назад

@@BradiKal61 Not true, It was just a McDonnell aircraft. Not a McDonnell Douglas aircraft. The merger had not happened when the F-101 was designed and put into production.

@garyyoung4074 7 месяцев назад

I would say yes, but only in the most general of ways. The classic turned up phantom wing tips and the severe diheadral of the stabilators was to fix stability issues not found in the Voodoo.

@tkskagen 7 месяцев назад

@@garyyoung4074 Thank you for your responce Gary.

@davidargon6623 Год назад

Not to self, “Don’t forget pin”...

@AzharSaidin-ro2io 7 месяцев назад

Project Axxx3.

@dryflyshaman Год назад

Ar-kan-saw

@Famous-Potatoes Год назад

R-Kansas?

@uscplaya69 Год назад

Eminem is dope

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@ajobdunwell2585 Год назад

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@uncbadguy Год назад

12:31 At Bentwaters 1976 we were flying F-4E's. There were a few "old timers" still around and they all told story's about F-101 Voo Doo's falling out of the sky. It held the record for being the world's fastest flying piece of crap. {I think a local told me about the world's fastest flying piece of crap.} By the way there was a missing hanger at Bentwaters (with ordinance inside) that was taken out by an F-101 that crapped out on a Friday at lunch time. Everybody was across the base at the chow hall and it was payday. The pilot ejected safely. Nobody was killed. That time.

@natural-born_pilot Год назад

Don’t know who you talked to or what their actual knowledge was of the 101 but it sounds as if their confusing it with the F84.

@uncbadguy Год назад

@@natural-born_pilot Bentwaters has a missing hanger where a 101 went into it on a landing approach. I believe it was a control issue. It's hard when memories are fifty years old. There was also an incident where a 101 went off the runway and hit a row of cars waiting to cross the main runway. There were fatalities. I also remember a few F-4E approaches that didn't work out well as well.