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.
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.
Hang in there guys I was 8yrs old in 57, retired from the USAF in 88 and flew in the 101 for over seven yrs and loved every minute of it. I even signed back up as a civilian for 4 more years during the Gulf war when I discovered there was a shortage of security forces to protect the base I live near due to the huge numbers of active duty members being deployed to the war. If I could I’d do it all over again. I’m with you and have the same feelings about the government today but hanging in hoping that one day the right president will be elected and correct all this putting us back on the map. I’m proud to have served in the USAF and have always felt I’m still Air Force even after retirement.
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!
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!
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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@КапитанГейб 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.
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!!!
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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. ⭐🤠🐴🍿🐎🍿🐎
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❤🇨🇦👋👍✌🙏
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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!
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!
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.
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 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.
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.👍
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.
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 !!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Yes, the Canadians could have bought the F-106, but they couldn't even afford the Arrow, so that was out. Anyway, the U.S. Government GAVE those two batches of Voodoos to Canada in exchange for maintaining a few DEW Line sites. 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".
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
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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
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.
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.
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.
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
@@frankbodenschatz173, the Arrow wasn't the F-105. That was a Republic Fairchild tactical bomber, the Thunderchief. The Arrow was the Avro Canada CF-105. Very different bird.
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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"
@@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.
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.
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 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.
Your choice of words is questionable and could possibly be driven by your attitude and/or knowledge level. Yes the F4 was a newer more advanced fighter aircraft but just to say better is not all completely correct.
@@natural-born_pilot you sound like a Navy Aviator retired that I am friends with. He started his career on the Phantoms and ended on Tom Cats. He does not talk about the Phantom but loves to talk about the Tomcat. Am I right in assuming that there was something wrong with the Phantom. Please though if you do answer keep it simple because I'm just an old Jarhead tanker.
Charles Entrkin I’m retired Air Force and know that assuming is not the best way to know. To answer your question the F-14 was highly favored by the Naval aviators of the day and still talked about today. The F-14 came out after the F-4 and with all new aircraft was improved in many ways not in just speed. However, to assume that the Phantom was plagued or had some major problem because you’re good friend mostly talks about his Tom Cat days would be incorrect. The Tom Cat was a better performer in many ways and had a more modern weapons system. If your friend is still around I’d drop the question on him to better explain it. The F-4 Phantom served both the Navy and Air Force greatly especially during the Viet Nam war.
No true. The F-101 production was cut short because it was full of flaws. At the time that took place the F-4 hadn't even been conceived yet. Read "F-101 Voodoo, the illistrated history of Mcdonnell's Heavyweight fighter"
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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.
Stabalater??? Like “see ya later”?
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.
I'm right behind you -- I'm 70 and my Mom is alive and 95! 😊
@@therealniksongs no worries. They got out with the investment money plus the vig
Would've been amazing to hear those booms!
Oh yes, I was i year old in 57, agree with the buffoons for sure, not a doubt that is being polite at that.
Hang in there guys I was 8yrs old in 57, retired from the USAF in 88 and flew in the 101 for over seven yrs and loved every minute of it. I even signed back up as a civilian for 4 more years during the Gulf war when I discovered there was a shortage of security forces to protect the base I live near due to the huge numbers of active duty members being deployed to the war. If I could I’d do it all over again. I’m with you and have the same feelings about the government today but hanging in hoping that one day the right president will be elected and correct all this putting us back on the map. I’m proud to have served in the USAF and have always felt I’m still Air Force even after retirement.
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!
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!
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!
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
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.
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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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@КапитанГейб 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.
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!!!
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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
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.
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.
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.
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@@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.
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.
remember this plane from "The Russians are Coming!....The Russians are Coming!"
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.
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).
I love those manual operation instructional films from 50's and 60's. Thank you.👍
Glad you like them!
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.
Love the sound of a Voodoo... We have one of these bad boys on display at the Halifax Airport Air Museum.
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I want to see that bad boy. On my bucket list.
YES! Finally, a video regarding the F-101 Voodoo.
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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.
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. ⭐🤠🐴🍿🐎🍿🐎
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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❤🇨🇦👋👍✌🙏
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.
You are welcome. thanks for the kind comment
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.
Finally a good documentary of the F101.
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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.
Great photo at 14:19.
The Voodoo's silhouette is unmistakable.
Thanks for making this! My Dad worked on the ejection seats on the RF-101's with the KY ANG.
Our pleasure!
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.
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.
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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.
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....
Fascinating plane! Real 60s Cold War tech. Flew with the USAF until '72 and with the National Guard until '82.
My grandfather talked of these planes often. He retired as an air traffic controller with the RCAF.
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!
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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!
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.
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.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fell in love with the Voodoo on display at Lowry AFB. One sexy jet.
F-100 ,F-101 ,F-102 ,F-104 and F-106 these are developing advanced fighter jet era of USA. 😊
Century series.
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.
Do you remember his name?
@@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.
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.👍
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Excellent video package, which reminds us that - certainly now as well as in the fifties - freedom does not come for free.
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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.
Can you please hire someone to do the narration? AI sticks out like a sore thumb and I don't like listening to it for 2 hours!
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 !!
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.
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.
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...
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Another excellent documentary. Thank you.
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.
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.
Wonderful documentary. Many thanks.
Many thanks Ernesto!
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...
The possibilities are always there you just have to apply yourself and go for it.
My dad was a Voodoo Scope Wizard when I was born. We were stationed at an air base in Charleston S.C.
I saw this in the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio. This is a beautiful aesthetic Jet compared to other Legacy Century Fighters.
The old instructional video is hella cool.
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I agree. Remember to have a protractor handy!
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
The Voodoo had a unique engine noise. You didn't even have to look up to know one was flying near you.
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.
Thanks for the info!
Nobody ever patterned their designs after the Lightning. It was a technological dead-end.
I still marvel at the static display of the RF-101 at Keesler Air Force Base..
We sent our RF-101's from Misawa AB in Japan to Danang, Vietnam early 1963
What an exciting time in aircraft design
You know you have a great plane when it is so feared by the enemy that they never attacked it.
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This is a great channel... thanks
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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.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Opa
Yes, the Canadians could have bought the F-106, but they couldn't even afford the Arrow, so that was out. Anyway, the U.S. Government GAVE those two batches of Voodoos to Canada in exchange for maintaining a few DEW Line sites. 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".
Canada didn't actually "buy" the F-101's from the U.S. They were traded for Canada's upkeep of some DEW line radar stations.
The familiarization video is a hoot.
I've always loved the look of this great aircraft..the mighty Voodoo Yeeaahh
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Beautiful bird and had more weight to thrust ratio but yet was a tad slower than the F8 Crusader.
Such a beautiful bird way over its time
We got a Voodoo gate guard here at CFB North Bay Ontario
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I love the name F101 Voodoo!
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
Thrust I almost had to whip my keyboard just to write thurst
We knew what you meant Jimi no sweat. My key board is notorious for that and tries it on me all the time.
I remember seeing these fly over when I was a kid. Somtimes we were treated with a sonic boom. Everyone said they were interceptors.
Besides the F100 Super Saber & F102, F106 Delta Dart nice jets. The F104 too. I want the die cast model for myself.
@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 ! ))
Good video DroneScapes , cool warbird.😊👍
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@@Dronescapes you're welcome
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.
Cool name's for jet fighters🦇
Hard to believe the USAF went from the planes in the Century Series to 10-15 years later to F 15.
Thorough!
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F-101 was the F-4 before the F-4 was around.
there is an old saying.. "the F-4 is a fixed F-101 and the F-15 is an F-4 on Steriods."
I'd like to see a high fidelity model of the RF-101 for MSFS 2020.
It’s always pronounced “Sack”. Nobody but a computer ever said S-A-C
I want to buy it but the livery is making me don’t wanna buy it btw great video 👍
I commented on the wrong video 😑 still nice video
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
Jesus , after checking everything in the cockpit the fucking war would be over !
there is a difference between peace time ops and scramble missions.
Get the latest variant of this.. paint it gray.. will look VERY modern.
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.
If the CF-105 had been developed we wouldn't be a third world country buying old junk. It is a weakness of Ottawa and will always be.
She’s better remembered as the RF-101 because of the missions in Vietnam.
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.
Is it correct that at least 1 F-101 was lost on a recon mission over Cuba during the Crises?
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.
I was on a hill in Eastern Washington outside of a com-van
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
Hmm first I heard of a voodoo able to climb hills and mountains?
@@natural-born_pilot not the export model bozo
Almost a full voodoo is at O'Riley 😂😂aviation Kissimmee FL.
brilliant sir all this work and the uk builds mosque not aircraft now what went wrong in the wind tunnel sir
We should drop at once over VPloxo and everywhere he may be, dacha or nyet
Nice plane, but the F101 couldn't hold a candle to the F105 Arrow it replaced in Canada.
Sorry, never heard of it.
The CF-105 Arrow and the TSR-2 were two amazing planes that died of political stupidity.
Tsr 2 for the win, dropped it for the f1.11.fools
@@frankbodenschatz173 the Avro Arrow.
@@frankbodenschatz173, the Arrow wasn't the F-105. That was a Republic Fairchild tactical bomber, the Thunderchief. The Arrow was the Avro Canada CF-105. Very different bird.
What's the music at 1 hour 4mins?
Not to self, “Don’t forget pin”...
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@@Dronescapes I referred your channel to an older friend of mine, because he is a bit of a history buff, and your interviews and footage I thought would appeal to him.
I wasn't aware you ran so many ads because I use AdBlock when browsing YT.. but I'm perfectly content no longer viewing your content. Thank you for the prompt reply.
@@Dronescapes you know, I just spent a couple hours showing my friend how to goose your ads... I am pretty sure you owe me money...
@@Dronescapes an over priced money maker driven by the over use of ads forced on its patrons. More common term is greed thank you very much.
Where is Arr-Kansas?? Is that a pirate republic?
Even to a Brit, that stuck out like a sore thumb to me!
"The One-Oh-Wonder" 🇺🇸🇨🇦...
One-oh-wonder.
Is the F-101 Voodoo the "precursor" to the F-4 Phantom?
Both were McDonnell Douglas planes. Close if not sequential
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"
@@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.
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.
@@garyyoung4074 Thank you for your responce Gary.
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.
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.
@@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.
Was called the widow maker.
The production run of the F-101 was cut short so The factory could be converted to a build a better aircraft the F-4
Your choice of words is questionable and could possibly be driven by your attitude and/or knowledge level. Yes the F4 was a newer more advanced fighter aircraft but just to say better is not all completely correct.
@@natural-born_pilot you sound like a Navy Aviator retired that I am friends with. He started his career on the Phantoms and ended on Tom Cats. He does not talk about the Phantom but loves to talk about the Tomcat. Am I right in assuming that there was something wrong with the Phantom. Please though if you do answer keep it simple because I'm just an old Jarhead tanker.
Charles Entrkin I’m retired Air Force and know that assuming is not the best way to know. To answer your question the F-14 was highly favored by the Naval aviators of the day and still talked about today. The F-14 came out after the F-4 and with all new aircraft was improved in many ways not in just speed. However, to assume that the Phantom was plagued or had some major problem because you’re good friend mostly talks about his Tom Cat days would be incorrect. The Tom Cat was a better performer in many ways and had a more modern weapons system. If your friend is still around I’d drop the question on him to better explain it. The F-4 Phantom served both the Navy and Air Force greatly especially during the Viet Nam war.
No true. The F-101 production was cut short because it was full of flaws. At the time that took place the F-4 hadn't even been conceived yet. Read "F-101 Voodoo, the illistrated history of Mcdonnell's Heavyweight fighter"
@@natural-born_pilot Its Tomcat. Not Tom Cat