One-of-a-kind fighter plane? | Curator on the Loose! 

Came 2 weeks after 9/11. Our guide was normally for children. Filled our heads with crazy stories, and I am so thankful.

Love this curator for his warm personality.

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Thank you for this video in Dayton. When I was a kid my dad talked about us going to Dayton to the museum. He died in 2000 so we never made it. I've been wanting to go to complete the dream we had. Now I'm 65 and disabled. Living on a fixed income doesn't bode well for traveling. That and the fact I don't own a vehicle, or one that can transport my powerchair. With your videos I can at least see what dad and I wanted see together. Thanks again.

Doug is the man ! He entertained/educated my daughter for a bit when we visited....top nitch !

Always fun when you get two experts nerding out together

Now that's a cool video!

The museum is amazing, the XB70 is worth the trip alone, spend a couple of days to absorb the history and innovation in motion.

Cool Curator!! like him a lot!!

My boss flew Voodoos. Good to see the stories he told have some life to them. He was shot at several times in his RF-101 and the missiles ran out of fuel before they could reach him. He also recalled a very tense day during the Cuban Missile Crisis being lined up on the runway with White Genies (not checkerboard trainers) ready for the order to takeoff. Can’t wait for part two!

I have had the great fortune to be able to walk among the displays at the museum while I was stationed there in the late 80s. It is such a unique experience to be able to touch them and look inside them from close up.

I grew up as a "Century" pilot wannabe. Ended up working some of the last F-100 airstrikes in Vietnam as a FAC. This will be a great series. BTW, the F-101 also had serious pitchup problems when the high elevon got blanketed by turbulence in high-G situations.

I live 45 minutes away from NMUSAF, I love going, wife and I go a lot, also collect 1/72 diecast aircraft that now call the museum home. Looking forward to seeing the next episodes

Two of my most enjoyable museum visits were the Silver Hill NASM Storage and Restoration Facility and the San Diego Air Museum restoration shop. The people who restore these aircraft are real artists and pros. Interesting story the curator told at Silver Hill: they found a hot ejection seat while working on a restoration. Everything stopped to disarm it. Then they decided to check the other planes in the shop and found about half the seats were hot!

The F-110 and F-111 really completed the series

Living in the Dayton area, we’re trying blessed to have this great Museum. My dad worked on the Voodoo’s J57 engines - Voodoo mechanics were called “Voodoo Medicine Men” just like F-4 mechs were called “Phantom Phixers”. Great video!

He’s back!!!

I used to have a client that was an engineer for that short lived program. He had to change careers after the phantom showed up. Took him home to fly it on my simulator when he was 86

Takes me back to when I got to hang out in the Pima museum. The Lockheed Starfighter... WOW!! The 107? My goodness!!

Hey!!!! The Happy Hooligans!!! FS 119 here in Fargo!!! Good pic!

Great video. It's astounding that only 7% is on display at the Museum of the Air Force. Himself and I were there in 2019 and felt that 2 days was rushing to see what was there!

I wanna give the 107 a hug for showing up.

Amazing! Just as I started watching this, a kc135 and 2 f35s flew over. I love our in the middle of nowhere utard, it's great to see our protectors while I'm watching a video about our historic protectors!

to think that Kelly Johnson created the design for the f104 in like 1952 or something , he was just so brilliant in his designs . he would take an objective and develop something to just dominate in that role , the f104 would have dominated the Migs way better than the f4 did if they chose to use it like it was designed for. he even had a concept design for a updated next gen starfighter that he said would have dominated over fighter it lost to (the f15) as an air to air fighter but the airforce had already decided everything needs to be a bomber by then and didnt want a pure fighter

Ironic when you come up to Canada, just about everyone has a CF101 Voodoo and a CF104 Starfighter.

Thanks for the tour of the Air Force museum, 3would like to visit one day, bext regards from Australia 👍👍👍👍

Great presentations and explanations - very engaging. BZ

man i love century series aircraft as well as early to mid cold war aircraft. I'd love to fly a crusader, corsair and delta dart and dagger. as well as a 104 and thud ofc

I would love to visit these storage facilities. So much history there.

The Thunder Bird demonstration team flew the F100 for a time. Our air gaurd here in Toledo lost one in a takeoff accident.

Great video. It should be noted that the Douglas X-3 Stelleto research plane was the aircraft that had unlocked the mysteries of inertial coupling, in which the data it gathered explains why several North American F-100 Super Sabre aircraft were lost. The Douglas X-3 Stelleto is actually the aircraft upon which the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was developed from.

That F- 101 you're standing in front of actually has a RAWS scope just above the radome. I recognized it because we had one on the tail of the F-111. You can actually identify from the temperature of the exhaust what kind of aircraft you're looking at way up ahead of you beyond being able to identify an aircraft. You can also identify what type of missiles might be being shot at you. But there's a saying in the military that Friendly Fire, isn't. So any missile coming at you is not friendly.

Ok. When I was growing up, I told my dad I was going to fly the F-104 Starfighter... the most gorgeous machine I ever saw... sculpted steel (aluminum) and sex appeal. My dad said it would be obsolete by time I grew up to fly it... little did we know it was already retired. That said, I see you have two unique (1 of 1) planes in view... The Lear Fan, and the Schweizer YO-3A Quiet Star spy plane of Vietnam vintage. I'd love to hear more about them.

RF-101's did a lot of the reconnaissance flights during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Air Force museum has an excellent website with a virtual tour and 360 cockpits you can "sit" in and look around.

I want to see more of the canceled 107! Those intakes look really goofy but i bet it had some merit to get that far into development

Don't forget the F-110 aka F-4 Phantom ... and the F-111

My dad worked at McDonald Douglas during the summer is in college when they were building the f101 voodoo in St Louis He ended up flying the RF-4 in Vietnam

Mig-29 tail behind you and a Dyess (DY) B-1 behind the 101.

Great collaboration.

To think they went from this in early 50s to F4, f14 etc by 60s. Crazy fast fighter craft developmemt

Huh... when I saw the title, I thought, "I'll bet they will be talking about the F-107". And, Bob's yer uncle!

Your videos ROCK!!!

I first saw the 106 flying from Tydal and thought i need one of these back in the UK ,,sent mail to the relevant people ,never even got a reply great

Actually, the Genie is an unguided Air to Air Rocket, which was initially designated as the MB-1, until Sept. 1962, when it was redesignated as the AIR-2A Genie.

Sad in F-107 :(. Somewhere in the multi-verse a flight of B-70's are being escorted by F-107s. And it would look glorious.

DON'T FORGET THE F-110!!!

Thanks for a great presentation from a wonderful museum. Two questions: 1. Did not later models of the F-86 have an all-moving tell plane before the F-100? 2. Was the genie's nuclear warhead designed not only to take out multiple targets but also to compensate for its primitive, essentially ballistic, "guidance" system? Thanks again for great work and kudos to the museum and staff!

I had all of these models when I was just a young inosent boy.

The Rapier is another one that I’d love to see more about. There isn’t much to see, sadly.

The Century Series also includes the F-110

Thats a room I would like to visit.

Ignoring the F-111 makes them century snobs.

The wing fence is present to STOP air from moving spanwise. I think you'll find that the Wright flyer also had a stabilator. I'm pretty sure that was before the Hun.

AWESOME VIDEO!Love the fact that only 7% of the museum’s A/C are on display, that definitely says something about the depth of the “Collection”! BTW, cool jacket Doug, is that available on the store’s website or is it specifically made for museum staff?

i cant wait for DCS to produce the F-100 Super Sabre...will be a fun module Im betting.

Hey...you are at Wright Paterson...have him show you the Roswell saucer.

Always a close call wich broke the absolute speed record since the F4D-1 skyray did 1211 km/h in level flight in 1953

Where does the F-111 sit in relation to the Century Series/'teen' series etc? I know it's not a fighter per se (then again, neither was the F-105), but it was a groundbreaking aircraft (First in service swing-wing production aircraft, pioneer low-altitude penetrator).

Is that an ex-Iraqi Mig-25 in the background ?

I don't know if this qualifies but everytime they talk about the century series, they always stop at the f-106. However, for a short period in the Air Force life of this jet the F-4 Phantom II, was known as the F-110 Spectre. I don't know if that actually ever made it on the paperwork of the U.S. Air Force. Maybe someone out there has a more detailed explanation of this.

Curator eats a goose. Curator rides a moose. Curator takes a deuce. Curator plans a ruse. Curator rides a caboose. That's all I have for today. Am sorry attempt to be funny. Keep up the good work.

The bestaircraft the air farce never bought was the YF-23

Where does the F-111 fit in this group?

Although Not produced, beyond mock up, will you be covering the F108 Rapier?

F107. What happens to the engine induction at high angles of attack?

That Egyptian or Iraqi Foxbat is interesting too. By the way I fully understand why the airforce didn't buy the F-107, that plane looks ridiculous.

The Century Series always confuddled me because there's so much overlap in mission sets among the 7 airframes. Why didn't the AF simply adopt two--one for A2G and one for A2A--then retire the other 5, thus saving on logistics and maintenance?

F-117 also

Had it designation not been changed, it would have also included the f110 and the F-111. The f110 designation was changed from the f110 to the F4 but McNamara was indeed a moron when it came to being a Pencil Neck Geek. Luckily the people actually building the aircraft were better at understanding concepts than he was. I happened to be an F-111 beyonics technician who worked on the automated flight controls and instrumentation. I did have the opportunity to work on Daryl Grenamyers f-104 and actually found a problem he had that caused him to have to land at our air base. As well as some other aircraft, but after working on the f-104 and a few F4 is in the light, I did recognize the fact that a lot of the instrumentation that I had seen inside of the Century series jet aircraft, of course that was an F-1 10. The f-104, I did see a couple of F100. That same instrumentation was also in the F-111 but it had additional stuff just for the terrain-following radar. Along with the inertial nav and the tacan which had been added about that time. Which no longer is in operation at least not that anybody knows. The advantage to the F-111 was not only at speed at being able to get to a place to drop bombs, we drop bombs within ten feet of a Target within 10 seconds of when you wanted to hit it. And that was before the pave tack system of laser designation.

Was there a F103?

Ellington AFB (Houston) had some VooDoo's for several years......

The Iraqi MiG25 in the background!!!!!!

1:52 Is that engine painted on???

now im wondering where is the f-103? does it exist? or was there a prototype?

would like te see the A series, A6, A7, A5, A 4 etc..... please

Was that a MiG-25 tail I could see in the background on left?

Are we just NOT going to talk about the clearly seen, captured Iraqi Mig-25?

Where can one get the hat you are wearing? Thanks in advance.

F-111 is century too

How does one get access to those facilities? Payment Permission?

I think the best airplane the Air Force never bought was the F-20 Tigershark.

They are not accidents...they are crashes

So not the F-111? Is it not a part of "The Century Series"?

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I thought the Museum of Flight had been sold and closed? What happened to the Ju-87 Stuka they were restoring?

they forget the f 110, and the f 111

Atmospheric bursts of gini do not affect anything on the ground below. There's even a famous video of several officers standing under a test shot of one. Some of the guys did flinch. See ground zero population five (one colonel one short bird a couple of majors and a photographer).

is that an Iraqi MiG-25 in the background? Sidenote: the Genie was classified as a rocket, not a missile, as it was unguided.

Talk to the German airfare about these death traps

What abou😊t the F-111 ?

Why did they skip the F-103?

So what about the F-111?

you state that F100 was pulled in 1979 Know for a fact at least one was still in service with USAFE 40th detachment 4 till at least 1985

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F-111, F117???

F-111 isn't Century?

My wife is glad I don't have the cash. Because any warbird or cargo would be mission ready to standards.

To bad you gave Short Shrift to the F101 in the video. It was largely due to the F101 Voodoo's low level high speed reconnaissance photos that proved that Soviet Union was installing and what type IRBM nuclear missiles in Cuba. Along with the F101 low level high speed photos tracking of the Soviet navy cargo ships coming and going delivering the Soviet missiles delivering to Cuba. And after the Cuban missile crisis was resolve it was low level high speed photos from the RF101 verifying the disassembly and loading of the IRBMs into Soviet cargo ships and Carrier based photo recon version of the F8, the RF-8G Crusader verified the IRCBs were returned to the Soviet Union. The U2 besides get another one shot down which almost caused Kennedy to go to war, the U2 photos resolution was too low to tell if the sites were fake dummy sites to create F.U.D. or real nuclear weapons that would be a clear danger to the US and it allies . It was the Low level high speed photos from the RF-101 Voodoos and RF-8 Crusader the provided the proof they were real Soviet IRBMs and real threat to the US.

Good info, but I'm not hanging with your hook -- deliver on your title.