My Dad flew the RF-101 for quite a few years including over Viet Nam during the war. One of my favorite memories was when he took me to the flight line while he graded night touch and goes for the squadron. This was in Texas. Watching them come in, touch down, and hit the afterburners was an unforgettable experience for a young boy. Noise was deafening - we were that close (small shack next to the runway) and the flame shooting out of the engines seemed 20 feet long at night. Incredible. Thanks for the video.
My long time best friend (who just died a month ago) was the all time, high time Voodoo driver with almost 4,000 hrs, mostly in the B model. He went from Otis AFB where he spend several years (and was the maint. officer there). He was recruited by the CIA to go to area 51 to fly the Voodoo as a chase pilot in support of the "Oxcart" (CIA A-12 Blackbird). They then "enticed" him to switch over to fly the A-12 himself. He was the youngest of the 6 Operational blackbird pilots until the program was phased out in June of 1968 when the A-12 was replaced by the SR-71.
My father was stationed at Otis flying the 101 then to Roswell and then to Charleston all flying the 101B. Timeframe from late 50’s to mid 60’s. I wonder if they flew togeather?
My Dad flew the F-101 for years with the Maine Air National Guard in Bangor ME. I remember watching all of them depart for the bone yard in the middle of the night in pairs, afterburners blazing with the distinctive "Boom pause Boom" as left and right burners were engaged and then continue a maximum climb rate to altitude. I wish i had had a way to film it, it was very impressive.
Very informative video. Thanks, I read several books about F-101 and variations, nothing is more vivid and impressive than this visual document on this subject. Thanks for the efforts in research and compiling this video.
I knew the RF-101, working on them in Thailand 1966-67. The Voodoo was a wonderful & highly reliable combat aircraft. Super impressive, at a time when new RF-4s were highly unreliable (daily ground aborts with RF-101 backing up all the RF-4s missions. But with the streaming multitudes of fickle USAF changes, it's a miracle the Voodoo ever became operational!! 😂
What a powerful and sexy looking machine. Always loved the shape of the inlets flowing into the rounded underside bulges for the engines, then into the longer afterburners of the later models. A sleek and powerful jet. Wish I could have flown in one!!!
Interesting to hear the comments by the pilots who liked the Voodoo but commented on her unforgiving nature. I'd heard/seen a video with General Robin Olds making a brief reference to flying the Voodoo, and it didn't sound too positive. I don't think he called it a pig, but it seemed clear he wasn't impressed, but that may have been out of context. Anyone else here see/hear his comments along those lines, and recall any more about it? I remember building a model of the RF-101 as a kid and thinking that was a good looking version of the plane.
The plane had a lot of flight restrictions in general, and the A model that Olds flew was "G" restricted, as well. It wasn't the greatest bombing or gun platform, either.
A German bloke Chris something - runs another of the better TH-cam aviation channels called Military Aviation History ..... Very recently did an an anlysis of 'Was the F104 Starfighter as dangerous as many suggested' sort of thing. Reams & reams of data - Which includes all kinds of aircraft statistics ..... including the Century series Spoiler alert the F101 VooDoo does indeed impress The whole thing's fascinating (but I must admit I mostly ran it at 1.25 speed to get through it all) 🙄
you make quality content, but i can give you a tip: lose the text-to-speech narrative in the beginning, it just comes of as lazy, void of interest or emotion and monotone.
The F-101A/C models were Fighter-Bombers, like the F-105, maybe not as capable but very similar. The F-101B was a true all-weather Interceptor, and while not as capable as the F-106, mostly because it lacked the superior fire control radar, at least better than the F-102. So, Fighter-Bombers as well as Interceptors are subcategories of fighters, aren´t they? I mean it was clear very soon that the Penetration-Escort-Fighter concept went nowhere before the advent of routine in-flight refueling when you look at the range of a B-36. Even then, you would also have to protect the tankers... The time of the Century-Series is so fascinating, because it was all about speed, which is the most important aspect of a fighter. With hit-and-zoom tactics you can always defeat a slower but more maneuverable fighter. This was already clear in WWII. The Century-Series´ timeframe was also the transition from having high-performance daytime fighters and anaemic night-fighters to all-weather fighters. Yet before the F-4 (wich was also a heavy slug) and later the multirole Teen-Series there were dedicated niches, like the 101B, 102 and 106 interceptors, the short range 104 daytime fighter, the 101A/C and 105 fighter-bombers. What did the US had at the time in terms of true air superiority fighters? There was the F-100, which lacked radar and Mach 1.5+ speed. It was relegated to Fighter-BOMBER missions in Vietnam. And the F-104 was on the horizon, which lacked range and all-weather capabillities. And it was also all about speed, not maneuverability. It saw only limited use in Vietnam and was retired out of US service quickly.
@@philp8872 that's a lot, and I can't read it all right now, but I agree with the first part. The F-101 as an interceptor is believable. A lumbering bomber destroyer that was fast-ish in a straight line. Even at this it was quickly rendered obsolecent, if not totally obsolete. If forced to deal with any fighter threat it couldn't out run, it sure as heck couldn't fight. Inspite of it's "F-" moniker, it really wasn't a fighter at all.
@@jacobmccandles1767 Thanks for your quick response! First, yes, an interceptor is about to destroy incoming bombers. In nuclear age speed to destroy them as far away from their targets as possible is key. Second, if we compare it to its contemporaries: The delta wing 102/106 might have better INITIAL turn radius, but a delta looses speed very quick in a turn. From what I can tell, a 101 has a better SUSTAINED turn radius. (And keep in mind, the 101B was explicitly developed because of the 102´s disappointing performance, while development of the 106 proofed time consuming. The 102 was even slower than the F-100) The 104 was surely a better air-auperiority fighter. But, as I said, it was mostly for daytime and lacked range. Although a high performance machine, the USAF soon got rid of them. Third, yes you are right about the 101 getting obsolete quickly. But that was the times when everything got obsolete quickly, fueled by rapid development. The roots for this lay in the gains of technology from WWII, further advancing because of the Cold War. On the other hand, this fascinating machines, like for example the Century-Series fighters, got developed in just a few years! Just imagine: Getting from a P-51 to a P-80 to an F-86 to an F-100 to an F-101 or an F-104 in just about 15 years! How long did the development of the F-22 or the F-35 took? 20+ years?! Let´s look at its adversaries: The Mig-21 would surely be superior to the 101, both in speed and maneuverabiltiy, but it was even a handfull to the F-4, which was a generation ahead of the 101 after all. The highly maneuverable Mig-17 would be easily defeated by the 101 with hit and zoom tactics. That´s the point that you have to be aware of your aircrafts capabilities, a lot of F-4 pilots made the mistake to dogfight Mig-17s in Vietnam. Su-7A / Su-9 / Su-11 were all very short range interceptors wich, to put it in your words "were ment to fly fast in a straight line". Su-15 and Mig-23 only came a decade later at least, so not comparable. Mig-19, although slower as the 101 would be a match when attacking from above with an energy advantage AND surely a maneuverability advantage. Competitors from allied/neutral countries: Yes the Saab Draken and the British Lightning would be superior fighters to the 101.
@@raynus1160 One of 4 nuclear weapon systems Canadians deployed back in the day. Right up until 1985 when the last electric one o wonder was retired from RCAF EW Service and sent back to the States.. Had the coolest all black paint job too that made it stand out amongst all the 101s produced.
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Please please,lose the music, you Don’t need it and it Sounds so outdated now!
My Dad flew the RF-101 for quite a few years including over Viet Nam during the war. One of my favorite memories was when he took me to the flight line while he graded night touch and goes for the squadron. This was in Texas. Watching them come in, touch down, and hit the afterburners was an unforgettable experience for a young boy. Noise was deafening - we were that close (small shack next to the runway) and the flame shooting out of the engines seemed 20 feet long at night. Incredible.
Thanks for the video.
My long time best friend (who just died a month ago) was the all time, high time Voodoo driver with almost 4,000 hrs, mostly in the B model. He went from Otis AFB where he spend several years (and was the maint. officer there). He was recruited by the CIA to go to area 51 to fly the Voodoo as a chase pilot in support of the "Oxcart" (CIA A-12 Blackbird). They then "enticed" him to switch over to fly the A-12 himself. He was the youngest of the 6 Operational blackbird pilots until the program was phased out in June of 1968 when the A-12 was replaced by the SR-71.
A sad loss
But a life well lived by the sound of it
My father was stationed at Otis flying the 101 then to Roswell and then to Charleston all flying the 101B. Timeframe from late 50’s to mid 60’s. I wonder if they flew togeather?
My Dad flew the F-101 for years with the Maine Air National Guard in Bangor ME. I remember watching all of them depart for the bone yard in the middle of the night in pairs, afterburners blazing with the distinctive "Boom pause Boom" as left and right burners were engaged and then continue a maximum climb rate to altitude. I wish i had had a way to film it, it was very impressive.
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Very informative video. Thanks, I read several books about F-101 and variations, nothing is more vivid and impressive than this visual document on this subject. Thanks for the efforts in research and compiling this video.
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This channel is full of great videos. I love it
While stationed in Germany in the late 80's we had a VooDoo that we used for Battle Damage Repair Training. Very cool aircraft...
I knew the RF-101, working on them in Thailand 1966-67.
The Voodoo was a wonderful & highly reliable combat aircraft. Super impressive, at a time when new RF-4s were highly unreliable (daily ground aborts with RF-101 backing up all the RF-4s missions.
But with the streaming multitudes of fickle USAF changes, it's a miracle the Voodoo ever became operational!! 😂
Oh yeah! Century fighters!
My dad was a Voodoo Scope Wizard when I was born. He was in an all-weather interceptor squadron stationed on the S.E. coast of the U.S.
Make us envious - Tell us you got to follow in his footsteps too 😜
@@Farweasel Nah, I didn't choose a life in the military, much to my regret, in hindsight.
A two seater & single seater jet fighter. 🇨🇦🇺🇸💯
I'd love to see a study level model of the Voodoo built for MSFS. The RF-101 would be ideal, with working cameras.
If you ask an AI for a picture of a jet fighter. It will probably look like this.
With out a doubt, the sexiest implement of destruction ever engineered
It just dawned on me that the B-1 takes a lot of inspiration from the Vodoo design. As a bigger plane with similar startegic mission.
The B-1 taking inspiration from the Voodoo? In what alternate dimension? Put down the hash pipe, dude.
And THAT led to the F4 Phantom
Pretty good going by anyone's reckoning
I grew up on Kadena Air Force Base where my father flew RF-84F’s and later RF-101C’s in the 15th TRS
I just have to mention the narrator pronouncing Arkansas as “R-Kansas”.
Paint it matt gray.. will look very modern!
Even the F-86 was used operationally with a nuclear weapon on a centerline point standing alert in Germany.
To those who were alive during the time of the Strategic Air Command the short name was pronounced "SACK", not S. A. C.
"Roger that, over"! 😀
and T.A. C. was TACK
@@ILSRWY4 So what was ADC then? "AIDS"?
That's "sack" not S A C
It's so good looking.
Tricycle landing gear is not conventional landing gear.
Conventional landing gear is the taildragger configuration.
What a powerful and sexy looking machine. Always loved the shape of the inlets flowing into the rounded underside bulges for the engines, then into the longer afterburners of the later models. A sleek and powerful jet. Wish I could have flown in one!!!
❤😊🎉👍😁☺️🤩💯🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸 U.S. Air Force & RCAF nice jet two engines afterburners. I want a model of this jet for myself. Love jets.
Better gat an oil well first!
One of th se beautiful aircraft sits in the war museum of Canada
Awesome video!!!
Thanks Gordon
Interesting to hear the comments by the pilots who liked the Voodoo but commented on her unforgiving nature.
I'd heard/seen a video with General Robin Olds making a brief reference to flying the Voodoo, and it didn't sound too positive. I don't think he called it a pig, but it seemed clear he wasn't impressed, but that may have been out of context. Anyone else here see/hear his comments along those lines, and recall any more about it?
I remember building a model of the RF-101 as a kid and thinking that was a good looking version of the plane.
The plane had a lot of flight restrictions in general, and the A model that Olds flew was "G" restricted, as well. It wasn't the greatest bombing or gun platform, either.
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The Thumbnail requires a double take. I thought what on earth is an F101 VOOOOO 🤔
_Anything you can do, _*_VOODOO_*_ can do better than you can do _*_. . ._*
I don't know, but I've been told that the F-101 variants had the lowest accident rate of all of the Century-series airframes.
A German bloke Chris something - runs another of the better TH-cam aviation channels called Military Aviation History ..... Very recently did an an anlysis of 'Was the F104 Starfighter as dangerous as many suggested' sort of thing.
Reams & reams of data - Which includes all kinds of aircraft statistics ..... including the Century series
Spoiler alert the F101 VooDoo does indeed impress
The whole thing's fascinating (but I must admit I mostly ran it at 1.25 speed to get through it all) 🙄
The F-106 had the lowest accident rate, around 7 losses per 100k flight hours. The Voodoo's rate was 9.64/100k.
you make quality content, but i can give you a tip: lose the text-to-speech narrative in the beginning, it just comes of as lazy, void of interest or emotion and monotone.
Rozczarowanie! Brak napisów polskich.....
Neato!
8:00. Sounds like the Airbus problem?
1:50 not a jet engine, C33 7500 hp turbo prop
The sexiest plane that kind of sucked.
Have a nice day my dear friends
You're AI voice is pronouncing SAC as s-a-c. Lazy.
There was nothing "Fighter" about this light bomber.
The F-101A/C models were Fighter-Bombers, like the F-105, maybe not as capable but very similar.
The F-101B was a true all-weather Interceptor, and while not as capable as the F-106, mostly because it lacked the superior fire control radar, at least better than the F-102.
So, Fighter-Bombers as well as Interceptors are subcategories of fighters, aren´t they?
I mean it was clear very soon that the Penetration-Escort-Fighter concept went nowhere before the advent of routine in-flight refueling when you look at the range of a B-36. Even then, you would also have to protect the tankers...
The time of the Century-Series is so fascinating, because it was all about speed, which is the most important aspect of a fighter. With hit-and-zoom tactics you can always defeat a slower but more maneuverable fighter. This was already clear in WWII.
The Century-Series´ timeframe was also the transition from having high-performance daytime fighters and anaemic night-fighters to all-weather fighters.
Yet before the F-4 (wich was also a heavy slug) and later the multirole Teen-Series there were dedicated niches, like the 101B, 102 and 106 interceptors, the short range 104 daytime fighter, the 101A/C and 105 fighter-bombers.
What did the US had at the time in terms of true air superiority fighters?
There was the F-100, which lacked radar and Mach 1.5+ speed. It was relegated to Fighter-BOMBER missions in Vietnam.
And the F-104 was on the horizon, which lacked range and all-weather capabillities. And it was also all about speed, not maneuverability. It saw only limited use in Vietnam and was retired out of US service quickly.
@@philp8872 that's a lot, and I can't read it all right now, but I agree with the first part.
The F-101 as an interceptor is believable. A lumbering bomber destroyer that was fast-ish in a straight line. Even at this it was quickly rendered obsolecent, if not totally obsolete.
If forced to deal with any fighter threat it couldn't out run, it sure as heck couldn't fight. Inspite of it's "F-" moniker, it really wasn't a fighter at all.
@@jacobmccandles1767 Thanks for your quick response!
First, yes, an interceptor is about to destroy incoming bombers. In nuclear age speed to destroy them as far away from their targets as possible is key.
Second, if we compare it to its contemporaries:
The delta wing 102/106 might have better INITIAL turn radius, but a delta looses speed very quick in a turn. From what I can tell, a 101 has a better SUSTAINED turn radius. (And keep in mind, the 101B was explicitly developed because of the 102´s disappointing performance, while development of the 106 proofed time consuming. The 102 was even slower than the F-100)
The 104 was surely a better air-auperiority fighter. But, as I said, it was mostly for daytime and lacked range. Although a high performance machine, the USAF soon got rid of them.
Third, yes you are right about the 101 getting obsolete quickly. But that was the times when everything got obsolete quickly, fueled by rapid development. The roots for this lay in the gains of technology from WWII, further advancing because of the Cold War.
On the other hand, this fascinating machines, like for example the Century-Series fighters, got developed in just a few years!
Just imagine: Getting from a P-51 to a P-80 to an F-86 to an F-100 to an F-101 or an F-104 in just about 15 years!
How long did the development of the F-22 or the F-35 took? 20+ years?!
Let´s look at its adversaries:
The Mig-21 would surely be superior to the 101, both in speed and maneuverabiltiy, but it was even a handfull to the F-4, which was a generation ahead of the 101 after all.
The highly maneuverable Mig-17 would be easily defeated by the 101 with hit and zoom tactics. That´s the point that you have to be aware of your aircrafts capabilities, a lot of F-4 pilots made the mistake to dogfight Mig-17s in Vietnam.
Su-7A / Su-9 / Su-11 were all very short range interceptors wich, to put it in your words "were ment to fly fast in a straight line".
Su-15 and Mig-23 only came a decade later at least, so not comparable.
Mig-19, although slower as the 101 would be a match when attacking from above with an energy advantage AND surely a maneuverability advantage.
Competitors from allied/neutral countries: Yes the Saab Draken and the British Lightning would be superior fighters to the 101.
In the US DoD, interceptors are classified as fighters. Fighter-bombers are classified as fighters.
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No wonder the Canucks got it. Had Brit engines under license, no doubt. Short lived. Made some “recce” missions over SEA. What a dog.
Canadian Voodoos were ex-USAF machines powered by the original Pratt & Whitney J57-P55 engines. Not really a dog. Served well for a quarter century.
@@raynus1160 One of 4 nuclear weapon systems Canadians deployed back in the day. Right up until 1985 when the last electric one o wonder was retired from RCAF EW Service and sent back to the States.. Had the coolest all black paint job too that made it stand out amongst all the 101s produced.
The grandaddy of the F4 Phantom 2.