There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that during the Cuban missile crisis a Voodoo was egressing the island so low that he actually collided with the ball as he passed over a volleyball game taking place on a Cuban beach. One thing that pilots loved about that old single seat Voodoo is that once the mission was accomplished it could get down in the weeds and get the hell out of dodge faster than anything on two wings. I find the RF-101C with its nicely tapered, chiseled nose, to be the nost aesthetically pleasing of the bunch, but it's just a matter of taste. I find these retrofitted RF-101s to be the ugliest of all the versions of of the Voodoo, one of my favorite Cold War a/c. Of those that were retrofitted as recce birds, if I'm not mistaken, in their only squadrdon deployment, which was with, for one, the Nevada ANG, they only wore the SEA camo scheme. I've done quite a bit of research on Voodoos and the only black one I ever saw was Canadian.
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