Modern military aircraft Voodoo by Lou Drendel & Paul Stevens Soft Cover

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Modern military aircraft Voodoo by Lou Drendel & Paul Stevens

Squadron / Signal publications

Soft Cover stapled

64 pages

INTRODUCTION

The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was originally conceived and partially developed for The Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a Long Range Strategic Fighter Escort (F-101) and Reconnaissance Aircraft (RF-101). SAC reconnaissance Voodoos would have been capable of delivering nuclear weapons as a secondary mission, however, their primary mission was to take strike photos and successfully return to their base. SAC considered their 'Fighting 101' to be semi-expendable once their nuclear weapons had been delivered.

However, SAC leaders became increasingly bomber oriented during the Voodoo's development and slowly lost interest in the fighter. SAC brass began envisioning their new B-52 Stratofortress as being nearly invincible, and began seeing their projected Voodoo fleet as little more than a nuisance which would drain off vital tanker resources. Following this change of thinking SAC relinquished development of the reconnaissance variant of the Voodoo to Tactical Air Command (TAC) in December of 1955, sixteen months before the RF-101 became operational. However, SAC retained their `Fighting 101s' until 1 July 1957.

Air Defense Command (ADC) had originally rejected McDonnell proposals for an interceptor version of the F-101 as being too costly, however, ADC reversed itself when the Convair F-102 'interim' interceptor encountered performance problems, and the F-106 'ultimate' interceptor program fell years behind schedule. Thus, three basic models of the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo design eventually evolved:

Strategic FighterF-101A and F-101C

Photo ReconnaissanceRF-101A and RF-101C

InterceptorF-101B and F-101F

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