Some of the F-101Bs were completed as dual-control operational trainer aircraft initially dubbed TF-101B, but later redesignated F-101F. Seventy-nine new-build F-101Fs were manufactured, and 152 more existing aircraft were later modified with dual controls.

By the time F-101 production ended in March 1961, McDonnell had built 785 Voodoos, including 480 F-101Bs, the two-seat, all-weather interceptor used by the Air Defense Command. In the reconnaissance versions, the Voodoo was the world's first …

May 10, 2023 · The most numerically important and longest-lived Voodoo was the two-seat, all-weather fighter-interceptor version, the F-101B. By the end of 1953, the Air Force’s ambitious two-step interceptor program with Convair—the Mach 1 F-102A scheduled to be followed by the Mach 2 F-102B (redesignated F-106A in 1956)—was seriously behind schedule.

The F-101B was a two-seat all-weather interceptor. The prototype first flew March 27, 1957, and production models entered service in January 1959. By August 1960, 17 squadrons of the Air Defense Command (ADC) flew F-101Bs.

In Operation Sun Run in 1957, an RF-101 raced from Los Angeles to New York and back in a record time of 6 hours and 46 minutes. The F-101B were the only model to use the J57-P-55 turbojet engines which afterburners were substantially longer than the J57-P-13 engines. The last Voodoo retired in 1986.

The museum’s F-101B (Serial No. 58-0303) was last flown by the 2nd Fighter Intercept Training Squadron, Tyndall AFB, FL. Acquired from Aberdeen Proving Ground in 1995 and was transported to Lockheed Martin’s pier by barge. The plane …

The Air Defense Command, requiring a supplement to the troubled F-102 program, turned to the two seat Interceptor version of the VooDoo, The F-101B. The F-101B first flew on March 27, 1957, almost 3 years after the F-101As maiden flight. The first F-101Bs were delivered to the 60th Interceptor Squadron at Otis AFB in Massachusetts on January 5 ...

The F-101B was originally designed as a long-range bomber escort for Strategic Air Command in 1959. However, this mission changed, once more effective bombers like the B-52 entered service.

The F-101B was flown by the 179TH FIS in Duluth, MN, from 1972 to 1976 before the unit converted to the RF-4C Phantom II. This aircraft, also a member of the “Century Series” jet fighters, was a supersonic military jet fighter that served with the USAF and the RCAF.

Qual and Cert for the MB-1 Gennie Rocket firings.