Showing posts with label Canada 1960-1969. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada 1960-1969. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 May 2017

McDonnell F-101 Voodoo - Canadian Users

The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in its "B" version. They were bought in June 1961, changing their designation to CF-101B as replacement of the Avro-Canada CF-100 Canuck as the Avro-Canada CF-105 Arrow program, failed. As they were looking for a high speed and long range aircraft and the F-101 was already available because it was being manufactured by their southern neighbours, the F-101 was chosen. They served from June 1961 until 1987, serving in five squadrons. None of them in Germany. A total of 66 of them served, being 56 of them CF-101B interceptors and CF-101F trainers. In 1971 the CF-101F were returned to the USA in exchange of having updated avionic systems. As interceptors they served until 1984 and the unique EF-101B, the electronic warfare variant, flew until 1987. The CF-101B were replaced by the CF-18 Hornet.









Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_F-101_Voodoo
2. https://northatlanticaviationmuseum.com/cf-101-voodoo/
3. https://pickledwings.wordpress.com/mcdonnell-f-101-voodoo-northern-sentinel/
4. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Avro Canada CF-100 Mk.5 Canuck - Canadian users

Now it's time for the last post about the CF-100 Canuck.
The Mk.5 was the last variant of the CF-100 Canuck. It featured a longer wingspan in order to increase it's operational ceiling. They were powered either by Orenda 11 or Orenda 14 delivering similar thrust of power. It's special because it was armed only with rockets and had, therefore, the gun pack and machine-gun sights removed.
A total of 281 were built and 49 Mk.4B were upgraded to the Mk.5 standard and it was the first massively produced Canadian jet fighter.
It served with many Royal Canadian Air Force Squadrons, with four of them being deployed in Europe from 1956 to 1962 under the nimble bat program, which consisted on replacing the Canadair Sabre with some Canucks in order to provide some squadrons with an all-weather fighter against the Soviets.
When the Canuck was already outdated, some of them were retrofitted with some electronic counter-measures to serve in that role. It featured some radar jammers in the gun pack and chaff dispensers in the underwing pylons. It was followed by another communications-jamming version and remained in active role until 1981, however we couldn't find relevant graphical references of these versions, so they remain undrawn.










Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-100_Canuck
2. http://www.airvectors.net/avcf100.html
3. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of FIghters