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F-106 Delta Dart in action Aircraft #15 Squadron / signal Publications
F-106 Delta Dart in action Aircraft #15 Squadron / signal Publications
By Cpt Don Carson and Lou Drendel
Soft Cover stapled
Copyright 1974
50 pages
Many black & white photos
INTRODUCTION . . . .
The F-106 Delta Dart is a remarkable, if relatively unheralded airplane. If its performance by present-day standards is less than amazing, its longevity certainly is, for the first F-106 rolled off the production line in 1956. Today, eighteen years later, the Dart is still flying, and is the only manned fighter-interceptor on active duty with the Aerospace Defense Command.
The idea for the F-106 was originally conceived by the USAF Board of Senior Officers, in October, 1948. The Board had been studying the need for a new air defense fighter, and had concluded that, given the then current state of the art, the new fighter would have to be developed in two phases. The first model of "The 1954 Interceptor" (as the F-106 was originally called) was the F-102A, and was dubbed "the Interim Fighter". It was scheduled to go into service in 1956.
The F-102 and the F-106 were to have been developed concurrently, but as the tensions of the cold war increased the need for an operational interceptor, the development of the advanced 106 suffered, as more effort was put into getting the 102 into the air. Delays in the F-106 program were caused by the J-75 engine and the revolutionary MA-1 fire control system, so the first flight of the "Six" did not take place until January of 1957. On its maiden flight the Dart attained a
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