McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo

what is it?

The McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo is an all-weather interceptor aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Forces between 1961 and 1984. They were manufactured by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri for the United States Air Force (as F-101s), and later sold to Canada.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · 12.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 1,825 km/htop speed
• range 2,450 kmwithout refuelling
• size 23.8 tmax take-off weight
• built 132made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 72 years ago, in 1954.
• 🏎️Top speed is 14.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 💥Faster than sound: up to Mach 1.5 (sea-level speed of sound ≈ 1,235 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 12.1 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 2,450 km: 14× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 2.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1954-09-29

introduced

1961

retired

1987

status

retired

number built

132

role

interceptor aircraft

origin

🇺🇸 United States

engines

2× Pratt & Whitney J57-P-55

length

20.6 m

wingspan

12.1 m

height

5.5 m

max take-off weight

23.8 t

top speed

1,825 km/h

range

2,450 km

ceiling

17,800 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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