Hey thanks for posting this. My grandfather was one of those 2000 engineers and he worked on both the Voodoo and F4 and also the Mercury and Gemini capsules before he retired in the mid 60's. I have his desk models of several of them.
Watched the Canadians use the F-101s in an airshow at Abbotsford in the '70s. One of the most impressive airshow airplanes I ever saw. Something special about it.
Way back as a kid in the 80s, my Dad let me pick a model to build together and I was instantly drawn to the picture on the box of the F-101 model. So beautiful from any angle. Always been my favorite jet since. Wish I still had that model; it turned out great.
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I took my mother to the Hillsboro Air Show in the mid 1980's in Hillsboro, Oregon where the Blue Angels were supposed to fly but one of their pilots got sick and they could not perform. So the Oregon Air National Guard filled in for them. And by golly, at that time they were flying F101 Voodoos. They were a flight squadron of 5 pilots/planes. One of the pilots was doing solo exibition flying. The other four were flying formation exibition. The one thing that really blew my skirt up that day, and I will fondly remember it from time to time for the rest of my life was when the four pilots flying formation lined up in single file spaced maybe a mile distance between each other when the announcer said over the loudspeakers that these pilots were going to demonstrate a high speed passover. Well it just so happened that mom and I were perfectly lined up with them as they were coming at us and the crowd. This and they were maybe 500 feet off of the ground ! As the first plane passed right over me and mom's head there was absolutely NO sound. Just this BAD ASS BEAUTIFUL jet fighter passing over head at an incredible speed...........then WHAM !!! as the sound of his engines roaring caught up to us and the crowd. It was mind blowing. And it happened three more times as the other planes passed over us in the exact same line. IT WAS AWESOME !!!!!! I'm pretty sure they were just under the speed of sound. I will never forget that and my dear, sweet mother enjoyed it too. Yeah, the McDonald-Douglas F 101 Voodoo was/is a beautiful airplane !
I think that was either ‘79 or maybe ‘80 - I was there too as a kid! - as the 142d FW transitioned to F-4s in ‘81. Fast forward many, many years, and I ultimately retired from that very same unit in 2009. As a side note: most of the current 142FW “Cites of Honor” F-15 nose-art was designed by yours truly. ;-)
My father was retired from the Army. We lived near Dyess AFB in Texas and often went there to go to the PX, get haircuts and have lunch at the NCO club. I remember seeing an F-101 "Voodoo" on static display there during some holiday display, probably around Memorial Day. They had a scaffold set up next to the planes on display and you could climb up and look inside! To me it was just the coolest airplane I had ever seen. For years it was my favorite airplane.
A super era of aircraft production. All the development of aircraft, stealth and missile technology, ended in 1945 in a country led by a guy with a strange vertical mustache. Since that time technology has stagnated in Aeronautics. PS. I hold various engineering degrees and a patent in aircraft propulsion.
@@christopherneufelt8971 I'm supposed to believe an obviously false statement because the person making the claim has an unspecified (most likely imaginary) engineering degree? Yeah, I don't think so. I suggest you stop watching History Channel and google what "argument from authority" means.
@@wape1 Hallo wape. History channel is popular mechanics of the 90's. The book with all the FOIA's for the statement of technology is: Hitler's Suppressed and Still-secret Weapons, Science and Technology by Henry Stevens. Myself, I have engineering certifications from U. Brighton, U . DeMontfort, and U. Bern (Ch). Also a patent in the Federal Patent office of Switzerland on jet propulsion (Under my real name, which you see written). You can also find my name on an internet paper (AMON) which once upon a time I develop with a company. Thanks for the comment...wape.
The CF-101 Voodoo served with the RCAF in the same time period as did the CF-104 Starfighter. The Voodoo was for North American defense while the Starfighter was stationed at various Canadian bases in Germany. Both were replaced by the CF-18 Hornet. When I was a kid my parents took me to airshows in Moncton, New Brunswick. The Voodoo was very impressive as it flew over the stands and with a huge bang went supersonic. Being a kid I was massively impressed by this interceptor in the NORAD role. Mary's husband Peter.
Gotta respect those J-57s. I was an ECM airman in the early 80s: B-52s & RF-45Cs. Mad to think of nuking people, but I loved getting into those machines! Proud to serve & protect the ideas embodied in The Constitution.
You were protecting the ideas embodied in the constitution? 😂 Good one! I bet you think we won the shjtshow in SE Asia too? Were we protecting the constitution there too? How about Iraq and the weapons of mass destruction? What a stupid statement
I did some TDY at Tan Son Nhut in '65 as a radio repairman covering the RF-101. The only weapon on them was the side arm the pilots carried. They were able to fly recon missions before a strike but their return to photo the results was expected and they came back to base shot up. We had stencils made of the silhouettes of the Voodoo and you never knew where they would show up. Often on the vehicles of generals etc. The Aussies had their kangaroos painted on everything as well.
Very informative film. The first flight of the XF-104 was about 6 months before the XF-101. It also exceeded 1.0 Mach on its first flight. Col. "Pete" Everest looks like a kid in this film. The date given for the shot in the cockpit must have been just after he flew the Bell X-1B to 2.3 Mach. He went on to set the absolute speed record of 2.9 Mach in the X-2. He later flew combat missions in Vietnam in several types of aircraft as a brigadier general.
I used to live very near the Air Force base at Niagara Falls, New York. I remember the F-101 Voodoos flying over our house. After that came F-4 Phantoms, then F-16's. Living near that base was like a constant air show and the progression of fighter aircraft that unit flew was like a history lesson on the aircraft the Air Force Reserve unit flew from the late 1950's through 1968 when I moved away from the area near the base. They were still flying the Voodoos at the time and they moved on to the F4's and F-16's later until the fighter unit at the base was moved. I do remember a serious accident when a Voodoo crashed shortly after take-off the crew punched out the plane crashed near Niagara University. There is a de-commissioned Voodoo (I think it was the RF version) parked on permanent display at the east entrance to the base. Interesting aircraft.
I was a Tech Crew Chief in the ANG unit there from 67 to72. I crewed F-100's and F-101 Voodooes. The voodoo acident you refer to was where Maj Shrey was killed. We lost another one over Lake Ontario .....and Lt Joe Fell died earlyer. His "wizzo" punched out and lived. His name as I recall was Capt Baer....who we called Yogi Bear. Instead of ejecting with his feet on the canted floor panel as per flt manual, he tucked both heels back against the front of his seat thus raising his thighs...and thus breaking both his legs right above the knee when the seat catapult went "BANG"
A nice, thorough, and stark assessment of the development of the Voodoo. I was impressed by the low landing speeds and short take offs. I would have thought they would be much higher/longer, as most jets of the time were not as impressive.
there were so many developments in fighter tech in the 50's. There were almost daily new models being built and tested, it would have been a really fun time to be a test pilot you would have been very busy.
davidca96...Yes, the 50's were a phenomenal time for aircraft development and in so many other technical areas; what an amazing time to have been in the Air Force and in Naval Aviation.
@@marbleman52 or just a kid growing up and seeing them at airshows or the local ANG base was a mile away that had F-86Ds when I was old enough to remember. Test pilots died quite frequently in the '50s and '60s. It was a roll of the dice whether you got a winner or a loser to test fly.
I went thru an aviation program in college at Western Michigan University to be a pilot in the late 80's. Ironically, even one of my non-affiliated, business classes was taught by a guy who was a former F-101 Voodoo pilot. I forget where he said he was based, but he said that on a regular basis they would load one of their empty, under wing pods meant for luggage/personal items with buckets of ice and fresh lobster from the East Coast. He said they would push the throttles up to get them to their officer's club parties on time half way across the country. He said it was quite the Air Force life.
George Mallory Yep, stuff like that was common place in the U.S. Navy, too. I was enlisted in the U.S. Navy, 1971-75, and spent my time in an aviation squadron. I loved being out on the line, where all the action was, so I trained to be a 'plane captain' ( similar to the Air Force Crew Chief ), for our A-3 Skywarrior planes. Whenever we would go to Puerto Rico for exercises, we would load up on liquor, which was a lot cheaper there than stateside, and hide it in the out of the way holes and crevices of the A-3's. Once we landed back at our home base, everyone would have to go through Customs and those guys would inspect our bags for anything that we would have to pay a duty on. But since our planes had a lot of top secret electronic warfare equipment in them and the customs guys were not cleared for top secret, they couldn't inspect our planes...Ha..!! So..a lot of liquor and other stuff was brought back that way. Yea, the military is it's own special kind of world.
An unsung hero of it's time. It had many more attributes it would have shown had it been allowed to naturally progress. Good handling characteristics and need for upgrades to missile systems, radar, and engines would have caped the F-4 and many that follows It, but too much attitude of scrap what we have and start a new still happens to this day.
Rod Firefighter : Politics and bribes.!!! (They are connected). ALL the politicians and top brass, are ALLWAYS in the "taking"!!! I don't have the slightest doubt about that.!!! You see, "People's money, it's cheap"!!!
Has a better thrust weight ratio then the F-35 does. It wasn't particularly low thrust. It's also faster than the F-35. At least by the book. The engines of an F1 01 put out 16900 lb of thrust each and the aircraft ultimately weighed about 45,000 lb in production trim. That makes about a 0.73:1 thrust-to-weight ratio. The F-35 has about a .64 to a.66 thrust-to-weight ratio ratio. I never got to work on one in the Air Forces they were getting a bit old by the time I served. But I always loved the looks of that aircraft. And it's performance was actually pretty good.
@@44hawk28 the F-35 has just under .87 twr at full fuel and ordnance where on earth did you get .66 from it would at best be just narrowly be supersonic at that rate.
Loved all the century series planes starting with the F-100 Super Sabre. Loved the F-106 one of the few birds that could hang with the speed of the F-4 Phantom II.
TheLeadSled I recommend looking up the channel of Bruce Gordon and The Spirit of Attack here on YT. He is a retired F-106 pilot and has some amazing stories.
@@marbleman52 wow thanks I will do just that. For me there is just something cool about the older jets, I mean I love the modern F-22, but for some reason the 1950's-60's jets always had a cool look about them. There is an RAF jet from the early 1960's that is outrageous called the English Electric Lightning and man that bird can scoot. Anyway thanks again I will check-out the videos.
@@TheLeadSled Oh yea...the Electric Lightning....an incredible jet. There are some great YT docs and stories about that fantastic plane. I was enlisted in the U.S. Navy, 1971-75 and in an aviation squadron. We had two F-4 Phantoms, four ERA-3B Skywarriors, four A-4 Skyhawks, and one beautiful EC-121 Super Constellation. I was a Plane Captain ( Air Force Crew Chief ) for our ERA-3B's and I loved those 'older' jets; they were a really hands on type of plane and not super sophisticated and high tech like today's jets. Each of our ERA-3B's had it's own personality and quirks and you learned how to work on and take care of each one.
As much as these cold war era aircraft stir up romantic images, it took until the seventies to really get a firm handle on air superiority fighter designs. They had only the most rudimentary design ablity, until computers started coming into there own. Then Boeing, Mcdonnell Douglas, General dynamics, Grumman, got really sophisticated. Not long after through good Intelligence gathering on the part of the then Soviet Block, The Mig 25, Mig 29, followed about a decade later. Now its all Stealth, Tactical Data networking, Radar Suppression, Drones, Satellite Reconnaissance and Battle theater awareness.
@@arlingtonhynes yes I really mean the Mig 25 which evolved to the Mig 31 1975 1st flight production versions as frontline fighter early 1980's. Sorry my bad. But the 31 came from the Foxbat design.
@Soul Sphere true air superiority means close engagements and distance engagements high altitude low altitude. This also assumes decent air to air weapon systems integration. I should mention that it took over a decade for the F-15-C to become the Strike Eagle. But wasn't a Bandaid it was a significant design refresh and probably the best decision the USAF ever made.
@@arlingtonhynes Btw I my first solo was April 1979, I have thousands of hours as PIC, I was ATP rated by 1981. I hold 16 type ratings, and have over 14 Airshows under my belt, and a Bachelor's degree from Embry Riddle. Also I am Older than the Voodoo, my instructor who Flew with the Ray Ban Golds, and he said the Voodoo rush to get stuff in the Air(And Kind of a DeathTrap like the 102 that followed). I may forget a few things, but the guy who's really full of it is the one with no wings.
These were a common sight over East Anglia (England) during the 1960's as they made their approach to land at the USAF Base of Bentwaters over where I sometimes stayed. Memories of times gone by when matters seemed rather more cut and dried and the excitement of spaceflight was interesting to many of us.
1950s such an exciting time in aircraft development , still mostly trial and error at that stage so dangerous time to be a jet pilot, not that anyone seemed to mind as far as I can read. sad I missed it and a pity no one thought to keep an example of these amazing types airworthy for future generations to marvel at.
I read that the pilots loved flying the Voodoo. They affectionately called it "F-10-wonderful." It was used to take photos and films over Cuba during the Cuban Crisis.
The 100 we called "the lead sled" then the 101 we kept the name voodoo, then came the F-4 we said " yes if you put enough power on a barn door you can get it to fly."
I remember them rolling out of the factory and blasting off into the sky. Pretty cool stuff. That whole area has changed so much since then. Voodoos are sleek and fast.
Unfortunately it was a contemporary of the F4 phantom Which was so Superior McDonald Douglas voluntarily stopped production of the Voodoo to produce more Phantoms.
My father was a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy, about 17 of his 20 years there. After I was born, in 1958, Dad was at Patuxent River N.A.S. in Maryland, near Chesapeake Bay. My mother said that I was scared of the Voodoo Jets. I hope that I need not fear them now.
More Money For Dreadnoughts my uncle “Hermie” Hermanson ended his RCAF career in these but started in Hawker Hurricanes and then deHaviland Mosquitos in WWII. Check out Calgary Mosquito society CZcams channel for Evert Hermanson. Great man from a great generation.
Yes, 101s out of what was then the Suffolk County Air Force Base in eastern Long Island, NY (now Gabreski Airport.) I remember going on a school field trip to the Base in the mid 60's and the Voodoo made a real impression on me. Amazing that this aircraft was developed almost 70 years ago!
I remember in March 1968; near Malartic Quebec, one of these plane made a low pass over our school before crashing on a frozen lake killing the pilot and co pilot.
At 6:30 we see how far our military has come in the last 60 years, we no longer fat shame those with eating disorders, nor do we demean the less-able airmen as "dummies" which, I think, is a good thing. Any one disagree?
No bull shit McDonnell (thankyou!)! The fighter jets of this period were a quantum leap forward... it's "cool" to picture the evolution of today's military fighters from planes like this.
Problems at high angles of attack due to bad positioning of the tail plane conveniently not mentioned. If they didn’t know about it, their test regime was inadequate. If they did know, then failure to mention it makes this just an MD marketing video.
6:36 okay let's get some rating scores on that ejection. I'm giving it 6.7 the rotation was good but the gymnast didn't land well and I didn't see any raised arms so..
The century series fighters had different roles. F-100 initially a day interceptor, but became more a strike fighter. F-101 initially was to be a long range bomber escort but soon became a long range all weather interceptor. F-102 was another all weather interceptor. F-104 was mostly a high speed day interceptor, ironically if became more of a quick strike fighter. Canada from. 1961-1968 used our CF-104's as tactical nuclear strike aircraft, with some sqds. using them as tactical recon aircraft F-105 was a fast, heavey all weather strike aircraft also capable of tactical nukes. F-106 was the ultimate culmination of what the F-102 was to be. The 106 was probably the best pure interceptor the USAF had at the time. F-107 was to be a all weather multirole platform, but it never went into production.
No more dangerous than any other new fighter that went into service. And likewise after the buggs worked out, mods completed and upgrades made it served well. At least the air force got their money's worth.
All of the century series fighters were dangerous from day one because they sacrificed low speed stability for speed. They were still badass and effective high speed aircraft. One of my USAF flying instructors was a boom operator testing A/R with various fighters from that era and could write a book on them.
Yeah a lot of experimentation was going on during that period. Lots of wacky airframe designs for sure e.g the Goblin parasite fighter, Avrocar and F7U Cutlass aka the "gutless" to name a few.
D. Geo the only dangerous bug that was never ironed was the deep stall. If yot into this there was litte you could do but crash. IIRC they fitted devices to stop you getting in to the deep stall.
I know nothing. I want 70,000 ft with perfect pilot safety and a technologically superior RADAR I want Mach 4 sustained "cruise" speed For all I know, this already exists. The model airplanes I was buying in Chicago in the early 1960's were 20 years behind what the US was actually doing
McDonnell really liked the tail position set so far behind the thrust. Considering how their designs changed, an no one else adopted it, it must have been the wrong way. But still, putting all that rudder and elevator leverage so far behind the centers of gravity and lift led to some very successful runs.
The phantom has some the same body style without the tail section. The engine placement was identical. The century series were give a hard time , but that was more to do with the Pentagon then the manufactures. Many were leaps in fighters and lead to some top fighters. The star fighter was the only one that never really was that great. They tended to kill more pilots the enemy fighters. Ask the other countries that bought it.
A. Clark I would have to add the F-102 into that, they had so many problems with them and they never did get it completely right. The F-106 was the one that could hang with the F-4 when it came to speed and climb, the last F-106 flew in 1986 retired ten years earlier than the F-4 in 1996.
@@WALTERBROADDUS The F-4 has never been considered one of the Century Series even though the two original F4H-1 borrowed from the Navy for evaluation and 27 more "purchased" from Navy production slots for training were designated F-110A, by the time the USAF received Phantoms built to its specifications the designation system had been changed so those aircraft were designated F-4C. So, do you consider the F-111 to be one of the Century Series?
@@dalecomer5951 The F-111 and the TFX program are a separate animal. The F-4 is in the same development period as the rest of the series and had the 110 designation originally. So basically you draw the line at the xf-109?
Didn't they get these from the Yanks as a deal for not completing the Arrow? The Voodoo's and a missile. Not a big fan of the Voodoo's for that reason.
@@guarenchafa4912 not really drew the Canadians did really great with the bird. I was a tow systems operator in the voodoo and towed targets in three William Tell competition meets. The Canadians flying there Voodoos were tuff competitors and always did well. All in all the F-101 served them well.
@reverse thrust why are you yelling me this I said nothing to the contrary? I'm also aware of how well the Canadians maintained their Voodoos. I did a lot of hard partying with them after those competitions.
Yes, both the 101 and the 104 had it because of the T tail. Many accidents due to sudden uncommanded pitch up. Pilots had to navigate a 3 dimensional matrix of AOA, speed, and weight to stay out of a pitch up. Pull a little too much AOA at the right speed or heavy stores load and the low pressure air coming off the wing would get under the tail causing a pressure differential pushing the tail down. Tail drops , AOA increases, higher pressure delta, stronger pitch moment... A vicious cycle taking a couple seconds to GLOC the pilot and depart the jet.
From the San Diego Air and Space Museum. "The Word on Pitch Up" about the F-101 - czcams.com/video/T2y3DX8hZAY/video.html If you're interested in aircraft and spacecraft you're really going to like SDASM Archives.
@@cowboybob7093 I watched that. Funny to see the credit to Don H Stuck, test pilot. I've been to the crash site of an F-101 near Edwards AFB he had to eject from during the test program.
Kurt Hoffmann Accident and structural failure of airframe was due to roll coupling from to pilot inputs during an aggressive roll. The AI was badly burned but survived.
Actually, the XF-88A was the VooDoo predecessor. The XF-88A was an experimental aircraft which eventually was fitted with a turboprop to test high speed propellors. It's basic design layout and features carried over to the One-Oh-Wonder.
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Hey thanks for posting this. My grandfather was one of those 2000 engineers and he worked on both the Voodoo and F4 and also the Mercury and Gemini capsules before he retired in the mid 60's. I have his desk models of several of them.
Watched the Canadians use the F-101s in an airshow at Abbotsford in the '70s. One of the most impressive airshow airplanes I ever saw. Something special about it.
Way back as a kid in the 80s, my Dad let me pick a model to build together and I was instantly drawn to the picture on the box of the F-101 model. So beautiful from any angle. Always been my favorite jet since. Wish I still had that model; it turned out great.
You can tell where the F4 got some of its lines and features.
Great observation. Had a first look and thought wait a minute this must be Phantoms father....Voodoo!
F3H Demon has an even stronger resemblance.
For sure
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I took my mother to the Hillsboro Air Show in the mid 1980's in Hillsboro, Oregon where the Blue Angels were supposed to fly but one of their pilots got sick and they could not perform. So the Oregon Air National Guard filled in for them. And by golly, at that time they were flying F101 Voodoos. They were a flight squadron of 5 pilots/planes. One of the pilots was doing solo exibition flying. The other four were flying formation exibition. The one thing that really blew my skirt up that day, and I will fondly remember it from time to time for the rest of my life was when the four pilots flying formation lined up in single file spaced maybe a mile distance between each other when the announcer said over the loudspeakers that these pilots were going to demonstrate a high speed passover. Well it just so happened that mom and I were perfectly lined up with them as they were coming at us and the crowd. This and they were maybe 500 feet off of the ground ! As the first plane passed right over me and mom's head there was absolutely NO sound. Just this BAD ASS BEAUTIFUL jet fighter passing over head at an incredible speed...........then WHAM !!! as the sound of his engines roaring caught up to us and the crowd. It was mind blowing. And it happened three more times as the other planes passed over us in the exact same line. IT WAS AWESOME !!!!!! I'm pretty sure they were just under the speed of sound. I will never forget that and my dear, sweet mother enjoyed it too. Yeah, the McDonald-Douglas F 101 Voodoo was/is a beautiful airplane !
I think that was either ‘79 or maybe ‘80 - I was there too as a kid! - as the 142d FW transitioned to F-4s in ‘81. Fast forward many, many years, and I ultimately retired from that very same unit in 2009. As a side note: most of the current 142FW “Cites of Honor” F-15 nose-art was designed by yours truly. ;-)
My father was retired from the Army. We lived near Dyess AFB in Texas and often went there to go to the PX, get haircuts and have lunch at the NCO club. I remember seeing an F-101 "Voodoo" on static display there during some holiday display, probably around Memorial Day. They had a scaffold set up next to the planes on display and you could climb up and look inside! To me it was just the coolest airplane I had ever seen. For years it was my favorite airplane.
Where in Texas?
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Runnels County. South of Abilene
Love these videos - a SUPER era in aircraft Development.
A super era of aircraft production. All the development of aircraft, stealth and missile technology, ended in 1945 in a country led by a guy with a strange vertical mustache. Since that time technology has stagnated in Aeronautics.
PS. I hold various engineering degrees and a patent in aircraft propulsion.
@@christopherneufelt8971 I'm supposed to believe an obviously false statement because the person making the claim has an unspecified (most likely imaginary) engineering degree? Yeah, I don't think so.
I suggest you stop watching History Channel and google what "argument from authority" means.
@@wape1 Hallo wape. History channel is popular mechanics of the 90's. The book with all the FOIA's for the statement of technology is: Hitler's Suppressed and Still-secret Weapons, Science and Technology by Henry Stevens. Myself, I have engineering certifications from U. Brighton, U . DeMontfort, and U. Bern (Ch). Also a patent in the Federal Patent office of Switzerland on jet propulsion (Under my real name, which you see written). You can also find my name on an internet paper (AMON) which once upon a time I develop with a company. Thanks for the comment...wape.
@@wape1 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA no shit .. what a clown
The CF-101 Voodoo served with the RCAF in the same time period as did the CF-104 Starfighter. The Voodoo was for North American defense while the Starfighter was stationed at various Canadian bases in Germany. Both were replaced by the CF-18 Hornet. When I was a kid my parents took me to airshows in Moncton, New Brunswick. The Voodoo was very impressive as it flew over the stands and with a huge bang went supersonic. Being a kid I was massively impressed by this interceptor in the NORAD role. Mary's husband Peter.
CFB North Bay had several of them when I was a kid in the 60s 70s. One remains on a pedestal at the front gate. Painted gloss black.
@@janetyeoman1544 Very cool!
Gotta respect those J-57s. I was an ECM airman in the early 80s: B-52s & RF-45Cs. Mad to think of nuking people, but I loved getting into those machines! Proud to serve & protect the ideas embodied in The Constitution.
Do you mean RF-4C?
@@dalecomer5951 Whoops: I meant RF-4C. Thanks.
@@brucegoodwin634 That must have been an "E ticket" ride.
You were protecting the ideas embodied in the constitution? 😂 Good one! I bet you think we won the shjtshow in SE Asia too? Were we protecting the constitution there too? How about Iraq and the weapons of mass destruction?
What a stupid statement
I saw one first at the Lowry Air Force base in Denver,when I was on a training couse for F4E in 1973.
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A static one was in front of my dorm at Lowry in 1987. I was a 462 on F-111's.
I did some TDY at Tan Son Nhut in '65 as a radio repairman covering the RF-101. The only weapon on them was the side arm the pilots carried. They were able to fly recon missions before a strike but their return to photo the results was expected and they came back to base shot up. We had stencils made of the silhouettes of the Voodoo and you never knew where they would show up. Often on the vehicles of generals etc. The Aussies had their kangaroos painted on everything as well.
Very informative film. The first flight of the XF-104 was about 6 months before the XF-101. It also exceeded 1.0 Mach on its first flight. Col. "Pete" Everest looks like a kid in this film. The date given for the shot in the cockpit must have been just after he flew the Bell X-1B to 2.3 Mach. He went on to set the absolute speed record of 2.9 Mach in the X-2. He later flew combat missions in Vietnam in several types of aircraft as a brigadier general.
In 1962 Col. Everest was CO of the unit training crews for the new (to the AF) F-110A.
I used to live very near the Air Force base at Niagara Falls, New York. I remember the F-101 Voodoos flying over our house. After that came F-4 Phantoms, then F-16's. Living near that base was like a constant air show and the progression of fighter aircraft that unit flew was like a history lesson on the aircraft the Air Force Reserve unit flew from the late 1950's through 1968 when I moved away from the area near the base. They were still flying the Voodoos at the time and they moved on to the F4's and F-16's later until the fighter unit at the base was moved. I do remember a serious accident when a Voodoo crashed shortly after take-off the crew punched out the plane crashed near Niagara University. There is a de-commissioned Voodoo (I think it was the RF version) parked on permanent display at the east entrance to the base. Interesting aircraft.
I was a Tech Crew Chief in the ANG unit there from 67 to72. I crewed F-100's and F-101 Voodooes. The voodoo acident you refer to was where Maj Shrey was killed. We lost another one over Lake Ontario .....and Lt Joe Fell died earlyer. His "wizzo" punched out and lived. His name as I recall was Capt Baer....who we called Yogi Bear. Instead of ejecting with his feet on the canted floor panel as per flt manual, he tucked both heels back against the front of his seat thus raising his thighs...and thus breaking both his legs right above the knee when the seat catapult went "BANG"
A nice, thorough, and stark assessment of the development of the Voodoo. I was impressed by the low landing speeds and short take offs. I would have thought they would be much higher/longer, as most jets of the time were not as impressive.
Chief test pilot Bob Little made most of the first test fights on MAC aircraft. President J.S. McDonnell had a high regard for him.
there were so many developments in fighter tech in the 50's. There were almost daily new models being built and tested, it would have been a really fun time to be a test pilot you would have been very busy.
davidca96...Yes, the 50's were a phenomenal time for aircraft development and in so many other technical areas; what an amazing time to have been in the Air Force and in Naval Aviation.
@@marbleman52 or just a kid growing up and seeing them at airshows or the local ANG base was a mile away that had F-86Ds when I was old enough to remember.
Test pilots died quite frequently in the '50s and '60s. It was a roll of the dice whether you got a winner or a loser to test fly.
Remember seeing it a Twilight Zone episode about a WW1 pilot who landed in an airfield in the 1960s after running from combat.
I thought I saw some F-102s also in that episode.
Thanks for posting this video!!!
I can see some some of the lines that finally evolved into the F-4 Phantom
"Special stores" = nuclear bombs.
and at the time chemical and biological as well. But those were all retired in the 1960s and early 1970s.
and daffodils to the peaceful protesters.
You can clearly see the evolution from the F-88 to the F-101, then the F-4, and finally, the F-15 in wing planform and tail-on-boom designs.
I went thru an aviation program in college at Western Michigan University to be a pilot in the late 80's. Ironically, even one of my non-affiliated, business classes was taught by a guy who was a former F-101 Voodoo pilot. I forget where he said he was based, but he said that on a regular basis they would load one of their empty, under wing pods meant for luggage/personal items with buckets of ice and fresh lobster from the East Coast. He said they would push the throttles up to get them to their officer's club parties on time half way across the country. He said it was quite the Air Force life.
George Mallory Yep, stuff like that was common place in the U.S. Navy, too. I was enlisted in the U.S. Navy, 1971-75, and spent my time in an aviation squadron. I loved being out on the line, where all the action was, so I trained to be a 'plane captain' ( similar to the Air Force Crew Chief ), for our A-3 Skywarrior planes. Whenever we would go to Puerto Rico for exercises, we would load up on liquor, which was a lot cheaper there than stateside, and hide it in the out of the way holes and crevices of the A-3's. Once we landed back at our home base, everyone would have to go through Customs and those guys would inspect our bags for anything that we would have to pay a duty on. But since our planes had a lot of top secret electronic warfare equipment in them and the customs guys were not cleared for top secret, they couldn't inspect our planes...Ha..!! So..a lot of liquor and other stuff was brought back that way. Yea, the military is it's own special kind of world.
@@marbleman52 'other stuff'
I think you're yanking our chain. The whole Air Force eating lobsters is old old stuff. Funny story though.
@@CosmoxYRik Yep....that too..LOL..!!
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing this!☀️😎☀️🇺🇸
An unsung hero of it's time. It had many more attributes it would have shown had it been allowed to naturally progress. Good handling characteristics and need for upgrades to missile systems, radar, and engines would have caped the F-4 and many that follows It, but too much attitude of scrap what we have and start a new still happens to this day.
Rod Firefighter :
Politics and bribes.!!!
(They are connected).
ALL the politicians and top brass, are ALLWAYS in the "taking"!!!
I don't have the slightest doubt about that.!!!
You see, "People's money, it's cheap"!!!
My Dad worked on these I have his Voodoo patches still, lol.
Really beautiful lines at any angle. The necessity of getting speed on low thrust (compared to today) makes a very sleek design.
Has a better thrust weight ratio then the F-35 does. It wasn't particularly low thrust. It's also faster than the F-35. At least by the book. The engines of an F1 01 put out 16900 lb of thrust each and the aircraft ultimately weighed about 45,000 lb in production trim. That makes about a 0.73:1 thrust-to-weight ratio. The F-35 has about a .64 to a.66 thrust-to-weight ratio ratio.
I never got to work on one in the Air Forces they were getting a bit old by the time I served. But I always loved the looks of that aircraft. And it's performance was actually pretty good.
@@44hawk28 Don't be talkin bad about Fat Amy :)
@@44hawk28 the F-35 has just under .87 twr at full fuel and ordnance where on earth did you get .66 from it would at best be just narrowly be supersonic at that rate.
Read "Special Stores" as Nuclear weapons.
My Uncle and his future son -in Law flew F101s out of Woodbridge UK 60-64 with "specials "
@@benbasinger7547 they were also kept at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island.
My father flew Sabres.....called the 100 and 101 "Lead Sleds"......with respect, of course
Loved all the century series planes starting with the F-100 Super Sabre. Loved the F-106 one of the few birds that could hang with the speed of the F-4 Phantom II.
F-106 was very manoeuvrable and could hold its own in dogfight with an F-15.
TheLeadSled I recommend looking up the channel of Bruce Gordon and The Spirit of Attack here on YT. He is a retired F-106 pilot and has some amazing stories.
@@marbleman52 wow thanks I will do just that. For me there is just something cool about the older jets, I mean I love the modern F-22, but for some reason the 1950's-60's jets always had a cool look about them. There is an RAF jet from the early 1960's that is outrageous called the English Electric Lightning and man that bird can scoot. Anyway thanks again I will check-out the videos.
@@TheLeadSled Oh yea...the Electric Lightning....an incredible jet. There are some great YT docs and stories about that fantastic plane. I was enlisted in the U.S. Navy, 1971-75 and in an aviation squadron. We had two F-4 Phantoms, four ERA-3B Skywarriors, four A-4 Skyhawks, and one beautiful EC-121 Super Constellation. I was a Plane Captain ( Air Force Crew Chief ) for our ERA-3B's and I loved those 'older' jets; they were a really hands on type of plane and not super sophisticated and high tech like today's jets. Each of our ERA-3B's had it's own personality and quirks and you learned how to work on and take care of each one.
@@marbleman52 Navy huh, I was Army. The Navy flew the J variant of the F-4 correct? Anyway always love yapping with another jet head.
What is it about the early days of aviation, that is so appealing. There aircraft look better than today's.
Favorite of the century series but have never seen much on it. Thx...
It wasnt a popular aircraft
Stevie Jo
Why wasn’t it popular?
As much as these cold war era aircraft stir up romantic images, it took until the seventies to really get a firm handle on air superiority fighter designs. They had only the most rudimentary design ablity, until computers started coming into there own. Then Boeing, Mcdonnell Douglas, General dynamics, Grumman, got really sophisticated. Not long after through good Intelligence gathering on the part of the then Soviet Block, The Mig 25, Mig 29, followed about a decade later. Now its all Stealth, Tactical Data networking, Radar Suppression, Drones, Satellite Reconnaissance and Battle theater awareness.
skipsteel The MIG 25 first flew in 1964.
@@arlingtonhynes yes I really mean the Mig 25 which evolved to the Mig 31 1975 1st flight production versions as frontline fighter early 1980's. Sorry my bad. But the 31 came from the Foxbat design.
@Soul Sphere true air superiority means close engagements and distance engagements high altitude low altitude. This also assumes decent air to air weapon systems integration. I should mention that it took over a decade for the F-15-C to become the Strike Eagle. But wasn't a Bandaid it was a significant design refresh and probably the best decision the USAF ever made.
@@arlingtonhynes oh sorry looks like I've stepped in Troll Feces. Are you older then the Voodoo? If so you're too old to be trolling CZcams.
@@arlingtonhynes Btw I my first solo was April 1979, I have thousands of hours as PIC, I was ATP rated by 1981. I hold 16 type ratings, and have over 14 Airshows under my belt, and a Bachelor's degree from Embry Riddle. Also I am Older than the Voodoo, my instructor who Flew with the Ray Ban Golds, and he said the Voodoo rush to get stuff in the Air(And Kind of a DeathTrap like the 102 that followed). I may forget a few things, but the guy who's really full of it is the one with no wings.
These were a common sight over East Anglia (England) during the 1960's as they made their approach to land at the USAF Base of Bentwaters over where I sometimes stayed. Memories of times gone by when matters seemed rather more cut and dried and the excitement of spaceflight was interesting to many of us.
Don't forget the other half of that Woodbridge that was mostly F100 yes u r right a different time & different place nice to remember
1950s such an exciting time in aircraft development , still mostly trial and error at that stage so dangerous time to be a jet pilot, not that anyone seemed to mind as far as I can read. sad I missed it and a pity no one thought to keep an example of these amazing types airworthy for future generations to marvel at.
Gotta love going super sonic on the very first flight!
Crew chief was called voodoo medicine man
Beautiful plane !!!
Bay of Pigs aircraft. F 101 Recce birds from Florida ..... pop up & said Hey, how y'all doin ?
U mean Navy F-8 Crusaders from VFP-62.
Love the looks of the Voodoo. Pretty impressive airplane all around.
I love aircraft family films there my people
I read that the pilots loved flying the Voodoo. They affectionately called it "F-10-wonderful." It was used to take photos and films over Cuba during the Cuban Crisis.
I read that the Voodoo was not very stable. The pilot I read about said that flying it felt like balancing it on the point of a pencil.
What a great-looking aircraft.
The 100 we called "the lead sled" then the 101 we kept the name voodoo, then came the F-4 we said " yes if you put enough power on a barn door you can get it to fly."
Love the name VOODOO !! right up there with HUSTLER
There's a F-101 on a pylon in the parking lot at Camp Murray, WA. It is clearly visible from Interstate 5.
I remember them rolling out of the factory and blasting off into the sky. Pretty cool stuff. That whole area has changed so much since then. Voodoos are sleek and fast.
Unfortunately it was a contemporary of the F4 phantom
Which was so Superior McDonald Douglas voluntarily stopped production of the Voodoo to produce more Phantoms.
The well-known and Superior Ronald McDonald Douglas?
@Galileo7of9 Posterior sphincter.
Lovely looking jet
I remember them well, seeing them as a boy at Hamilton AFB.
My Dad worked egress systems on the VooDoo with the KYANG
America has entered the jet age with the VOO DOO.
20,000 ft/min climb rate must have been a rocketship ride back in the day.
It sure was! My favorite piece of flying in the Voodoo, max climb 0 to 30,000 ft. Oh yea!
This airplane had astounding performance considering it's main flaw was the inlet design that lead to compressor stall.
My father was a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy, about 17 of his 20 years there. After I was born, in 1958, Dad was at Patuxent River N.A.S. in Maryland, near Chesapeake Bay. My mother said that I was scared of the Voodoo Jets. I hope that I need not fear them now.
QPO1stClass present and accounted for, Sir !
@@gullybull5568 I am just a "Navy Brat." I am just a soft civilian, but I thank you anyway.
Gabby Gabreski flew 101s. He also flew P-26s. What progress in the years in between!
More Money For Dreadnoughts my uncle “Hermie” Hermanson ended his RCAF career in these but started in Hawker Hurricanes and then deHaviland Mosquitos in WWII. Check out Calgary Mosquito society CZcams channel for Evert Hermanson. Great man from a great generation.
Yes, 101s out of what was then the Suffolk County Air Force Base in eastern Long Island, NY (now Gabreski Airport.) I remember going on a school field trip to the Base in the mid 60's and the Voodoo made a real impression on me. Amazing that this aircraft was developed almost 70 years ago!
Wow the 104 Big Brother, cool 😎
They were still intercepting "Bears" in 1984 out of Comox AFB
strange bird!! same engine layout that they used on the phantom 4, but the tail section is a little alien hehe , but it has a nice wide landin gear.
I remember in March 1968; near Malartic Quebec, one of these plane made a low pass over our school before crashing on a frozen lake killing the pilot and co pilot.
At 6:30 we see how far our military has come in the last 60 years, we no longer fat shame those with eating disorders, nor do we demean the less-able airmen as "dummies" which, I think, is a good thing.
Any one disagree?
Liked these in the movie "The Russians are Coming" x 2.
I live near Edwards and they still test planes here
Crew Chiefs were called "Witch Doctors"...
We were called voodoo medicine mam
They were called VOO DOO Medicine Men
al hardison the patch I wore for said medicine man
al hardison I started in February 1963 and taught the last FTD class for F101 Crew chief in October 1982 at Tyndall AFB fl
@@apajohn2 At the William Tell meet, Tyndall, AFB, Fla. the guys were calling themselves "Witch Doctors". Any way, a good time was had by all.
No bull shit McDonnell (thankyou!)! The fighter jets of this period were a quantum leap forward... it's "cool" to picture the evolution of today's military fighters from planes like this.
It's amazing to think that the speed of jet fighter planes doubled in their first 10-12 years (and hasn't really increased much since then).
I think the limit is the human body. We may see another ‘boom’ in aviation with AI
Yo tengo la maqueta del modelo de reconocimiento y todos los días lo miro y lo limpio hermoso avión
Sounds like the turbo encabulator guy
St. Louis now on fire. Progress?
Problems at high angles of attack due to bad positioning of the tail plane conveniently not mentioned. If they didn’t know about it, their test regime was inadequate. If they did know, then failure to mention it makes this just an MD marketing video.
Цікаве відео, особливо через те, що кольорове і таке старе ( в ті часи я тільки проявився на світ ) !
Beautiful bird, maybe even more so than the MUCH mightier Phantom but not the F8 Crusader.
These protos all became target drones afterwards
My very first model plane! 69-70 and I still love them!
Both. Planes and models.
I hope that guy being ejected gets extra pay.
They said that they used dummy's you know, Democrats.
A Mattress?! That's all I get a &@,#ing MATTRESS?!?!
Best thread on this video!
Outpost 101 the thing movie remake mcready tape journel.
Did they explain why the numbering went from F-88 to F-101? It seems like the 101s could have just been 88s with later letter variants.
6:36 okay let's get some rating scores on that ejection. I'm giving it 6.7 the rotation was good but the gymnast didn't land well and I didn't see any raised arms so..
2:35 - A "stabilator?" haha I'm guessing that's what ultimately ended up being called a "stabilizer"?
A stabilator is an all-moving flight control surface that performs the functions of horizontal stabilizer and elevator.
@@brianmcdaid3178 Cool. Thx
Still use the term today.
The F-104 was faster than most of those century series fighters.
All the way to impact.
The century series fighters had different roles.
F-100 initially a day interceptor, but became more a strike fighter.
F-101 initially was to be a long range bomber escort but soon became a long range all weather interceptor.
F-102 was another all weather interceptor.
F-104 was mostly a high speed day interceptor, ironically if became more of a quick strike fighter. Canada from. 1961-1968 used our CF-104's as tactical nuclear strike aircraft, with some sqds. using them as tactical recon aircraft
F-105 was a fast, heavey all weather strike aircraft also capable of tactical nukes.
F-106 was the ultimate culmination of what the F-102 was to be. The 106 was probably the best pure interceptor the USAF had at the time.
F-107 was to be a all weather multirole platform, but it never went into production.
So this video is provided by WikiLeaks?
Phantom / f-104 hybrid
Toss bomb system for "special stores"? Does that mean they were going to toss bomb J.C. Penny's?
Dangerous airplane
Unfortunately it was contemporary of the even more deadly F4
No more dangerous than any other new fighter that went into service. And likewise after the buggs worked out, mods completed and upgrades made it served well. At least the air force got their money's worth.
All of the century series fighters were dangerous from day one because they sacrificed low speed stability for speed. They were still badass and effective high speed aircraft. One of my USAF flying instructors was a boom operator testing A/R with various fighters from that era and could write a book on them.
Yeah a lot of experimentation was going on during that period. Lots of wacky airframe designs for sure e.g the Goblin parasite fighter, Avrocar and F7U Cutlass aka the "gutless" to name a few.
D. Geo the only dangerous bug that was never ironed was the deep stall. If yot into this there was litte you could do but crash. IIRC they fitted devices to stop you getting in to the deep stall.
I know nothing. I want 70,000 ft with perfect pilot safety and a technologically superior RADAR I want Mach 4 sustained "cruise" speed For all I know, this already exists. The model airplanes I was buying in Chicago in the early 1960's were 20 years behind what the US was actually doing
Title spelling error. DeveLopment
I want one
The F4 phantom older brother
Actually, the F3H Demon was the F4H Phantom II older brother.
@@alphakky McDonnell pitched the F4H to the Navy as the "Super Demon."
McDonnell really liked the tail position set so far behind the thrust. Considering how their designs changed, an no one else adopted it, it must have been the wrong way. But still, putting all that rudder and elevator leverage so far behind the centers of gravity and lift led to some very successful runs.
@@cowboybob7093 Not wrong. Many modern jet fighters have elevators extending beyond the engine nozzles.
@@dalecomer5951 Name a couple, let's say designs starting after 1980.
The phantom has some the same body style without the tail section. The engine placement was identical.
The century series were give a hard time , but that was more to do with the Pentagon then the manufactures.
Many were leaps in fighters and lead to some top fighters. The star fighter was the only one that never really was that great. They tended to kill more pilots the enemy fighters. Ask the other countries that bought it.
A. Clark I would have to add the F-102 into that, they had so many problems with them and they never did get it completely right. The F-106 was the one that could hang with the F-4 when it came to speed and climb, the last F-106 flew in 1986 retired ten years earlier than the F-4 in 1996.
@@TheLeadSled No question the F-106 was the best of the Century Series. The fedrule taxpayers got their monies worth on that one.
@@dalecomer5951 The F-4 is the best of the series.
@@WALTERBROADDUS The F-4 has never been considered one of the Century Series even though the two original F4H-1 borrowed from the Navy for evaluation and 27 more "purchased" from Navy production slots for training were designated F-110A, by the time the USAF received Phantoms built to its specifications the designation system had been changed so those aircraft were designated F-4C. So, do you consider the F-111 to be one of the Century Series?
@@dalecomer5951 The F-111 and the TFX program are a separate animal. The F-4 is in the same development period as the rest of the series and had the 110 designation originally. So basically you draw the line at the xf-109?
Canada used 101s.
Until they were replaced by the CF-18s.
Didn't they get these from the Yanks as a deal for not completing the Arrow? The Voodoo's and a missile. Not a big fan of the Voodoo's for that reason.
@@guarenchafa4912 not really drew the Canadians did really great with the bird. I was a tow systems operator in the voodoo and towed targets in three William Tell competition meets. The Canadians flying there Voodoos were tuff competitors and always did well. All in all the F-101 served them well.
@reverse thrust why are you yelling me this I said nothing to the contrary? I'm also aware of how well the Canadians maintained their Voodoos. I did a lot of hard partying with them after those competitions.
Growing up next to a RCAF base that operated VoiDoo’s..... thing were rocket ships... and Loud
So, no pissing contest on this video?
What's there to piss about?
The voodoo was dangerous but ....oh well ....there. I pissed and moaned
@@thetreblerebelyep just like a little girl
The Voodoo was prone to pitch up correct?
Yes, both the 101 and the 104 had it because of the T tail. Many accidents due to sudden uncommanded pitch up. Pilots had to navigate a 3 dimensional matrix of AOA, speed, and weight to stay out of a pitch up. Pull a little too much AOA at the right speed or heavy stores load and the low pressure air coming off the wing would get under the tail causing a pressure differential pushing the tail down. Tail drops , AOA increases, higher pressure delta, stronger pitch moment... A vicious cycle taking a couple seconds to GLOC the pilot and depart the jet.
From the San Diego Air and Space Museum. "The Word on Pitch Up" about the F-101 - czcams.com/video/T2y3DX8hZAY/video.html If you're interested in aircraft and spacecraft you're really going to like SDASM Archives.
@@cowboybob7093 I watched that. Funny to see the credit to Don H Stuck, test pilot. I've been to the crash site of an F-101 near Edwards AFB he had to eject from during the test program.
This piece of junk replaced the Avro Arrow. I seen one of these jets
blow up at the Abbotsford Airshow at about 5000 feet .
Kurt Hoffmann Accident and structural failure of airframe was due to roll coupling from to pilot inputs during an aggressive roll. The AI was badly burned but survived.
XF-88A.... You mean A6 Intruder v.1
Actually, the XF-88A was the VooDoo predecessor. The XF-88A was an experimental aircraft which eventually was fitted with a turboprop to test high speed propellors. It's basic design layout and features carried over to the One-Oh-Wonder.