I was raised with the sound of Voodoo's AB's near the runways at C.F.B. Bagotville. This seeded the dream of being a military pilot which I became and served 23 years. Thanks for this awesome video of a great airplane

I was stationed in Comox when the Voodoo was doing it's job. Since the nuclear Genie was the property of the US, it had US military security, and thus, a lot of USAF armed guards surrounding the QRA and weapons depot. I witnessed one incident when one unwary civilian took a shirt-cut across of stretch of grass beside the QRA, harsh instructions were issued, the guns came out, he had to lay prone on the ground, and within seconds three vans roared up and discharged a LOT of armed guards. It was as serious and real as it could be. But it was very cool to see, at the weirdest hour, two Voodoos roar out of the QRA and do a maximum performance takeoff, going out to meet Russian bombers sniffing around our coast. The Voodoo did not have the capability of it's younger sibling, the Phantom, but it could match it in raw performance. Since Comox lay in the route of any aircraft transiting to Vietnam, we had a lot of weird aircraft transiting, including many Phantoms. Kerosene cowboys being what they are, we had the occasional side-by-side drag race, Voodoo versus Phantom, and the Voodoo always won that race into the sky. We used to sit at the end of the runway, and it was a thrill to see them stage for takeoff, come closer and closer, lift off, retract their gear (you could tell, the landing lights went out), and hold about 50 feet of altitude until they reached the end of the runway (right over our heads), then pull up and just plain disappear into the sky. And yes it was LOUD. Good times, and a wonderful beast.

Always love learning about Canadian history!

To say the Voodoos were loud is an understatement. When they took off, always in pairs, and hit those afterburners. Every window pane in The Comox Valley rattled.

As someone who has always been more interested in older piston driven warplanes, thank you. You're video on the CF-100 Canuck and their deployment drew me in and now I've grown a great appreciation for post WW2 and cold war era aircraft. Every video since then I've ravenously consumed. Thanks for shinning a spotlight on this and other aircraft/projects that are so often underappreciated and overlooked. Keep up the outstanding work!

My dad was RCAF, lived in Bagotville and North Bay many years. There’s a black Voodoo gate guard at CFB North Bay. The Bomarc missle was downtown for years until the USAF wanted it back. The silo base is still there just beside the highway. A CF100 is still at the downtown park.

This is an absolute goldmine of history for canadian aviation. Glad I found this.

Fond memories of being on parade when these did a fly past. They came towards us from behind the spectators who all ducked as one when they roared past! We saw them coming.

In America the F-101B is almost forgotten glad someone is remembering them In the 80s Canada was really the Only ones with a official modern Air Defense Aircraft in the CF-18 we just had what ever Aircraft Fighters we laying around and the more famous F-106A in the ANG

I was wondering if you were going to do a video the Voodoo. Glad you did! Too bad we didn't get a "Made in Canada" fighter, but the Voodoo was a good fighter and filled what we needed at the time.

When I was training at the Air Cadet summer training center at CFB Trenton, I believe there was a CF100 Canuck and a CF101 Voodoo parked on opposite ends of the parade grounds. I always enjoyed getting up in the morning to go to the parade grounds and you would see the sun shining on these two iconic aircraft of the RCAF.

A very fair, accurate and well-researched history of the CF 101 Voodoo. Bravo!

Nice job! I'll always remember two noisy Voodoos opening the Abbotsford Airshow back in the early 80s. Also, one of our treasured flying club members has the distinction of having flown every Voodoo in the Canadian inventory. His name appears on the CF-101 sentry proudly on display at the Abbotsford Airport if you're ever in the area.

This was always a favourite at the Shearwater Airshow, BITD. Low pass, go vertical, light the afterburner and it felt, to a very young me at the time, like the very earth shook as it disappeared from view into he firmament.

My grandfather flew these planes back in the day. He was stationed at Bagotville, Comox, and Cold Lake. It's a pleasure learning more about the aircraft that is part of so many stories. Great video

Good show! Interesting, informative and entertaining. The Voodoo was a favourite performer at the Abbottsford International Airshow and I am thankful to have been there from 1978 on to see them fly. I also enjoyed seeing the Oregon Air National Guard Redhawks at airshows as well. Fond memories of *simpler* days gone by.

Saw one of these yesterday, 101006 at London, Ontario. 006 was the last Voodoo ever to fly.

Great video! There used to be a cf 101 on display at the municipal airport in my area. My grandfather worked for Avro Canada on the Arrow project.

I got to see a Canadian F-101 demo at March AFB back in the late 70's.

I'm proud to say that I was a Voodoo Medicine Man at 416(AW) Sqn from 1982 to 1984. As an Aero Engine tech I was there when the forward engine mounts broke and needed replacing. The 416 aircraft was orginally a project of the squadron pilots and they used car paint from the local Canadian Tire store, every time it flew the leading edges would have to be repainted. In 1983 416 won the NORAD trophy for the best reaction times beating out the F-106s and the F-16s the Americans were flying at the time.

What a beautiful experience that must have been for the pilots flying over the Arctic in a machine like this.

Excellent video. I was at Abbottsford when a Voodoo crashed. Sadly, the Nav, who survived, died in a light twin years later. Great old machine all the same.

Great video! Lots of good information, delivered in a easy to digest manor!

Early 80's I was a very young kid at an airshow in Hamilton, while in one of the hnagers one of these made a low flyover before the airshow commenced and remember jumping up and down in "shock and awe".

polyus you make some of the best and most inspiring videos on youtube in my opinion, I hope that after you're done with content about canadian aerospace that you wil keep making vids

I have many fond memories from my childhood of the Voodoo. The first would have been ~1979-81 when attending the Hamilton airshows with my dad I always was impressed with the F-101s flying from Buffalo/Niagara Falls from the US Air National Guard (I believe). They would only do a few passes, but of all the planes I saw attending those shows it was the Voodoo I remember. Later on I remember taking a vacation to see family in Nova Scotia and on the way home driving by Chatham and seeing a pair on hot alert being dispatched (likely intercepting a Bear bomber) Seeing them roar overhead was a sight to behold. It was enough of an impression I remember in my early teens building 1/48th scale model and imagining myself flying one! Great video! Thanks for bringing these pieces of history alive and allowing this ex-pat to teach my daughters some of my birth-country's history!

Loved watching them fly over when I was a child in the West Midlands. There can be no mistaking the whistle from the twin Pratt and Whitneys.

I LOVED them at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

I have worked on them as an Aeronautical Mechanical Tech and ground Runup technician at CFB Chatam 1980-1984 until they closed 416 Sqn...Was a blast !!

Hey! Another great vid. Great to see what our friends were doing back then, love from The UK

I have always loved the Voodoo

My uncle flew F-101 Voodoo's out of Wurtsmith SAC base near Oscoda,Michigan (just across Lake Huron from Canada) in the early 1960's in the Air Defence Command.He carried the nuclear tipped 'Genie' missle on his aircraft.He was in the 445 Fighter Interceptor Squadron.When they were sent to Vietnam they transitioned to the F-4 Phantom.He told me he always loved the sound of the afterburners kicking on in the F-101.I didn't know Canada flew them into the 1980's.Very cool!

Great job Brad.... very well done!

'We' had them at CFB Chatham, NB. What I remember most was the cyclical nature of intense flying. I recall being told there were always more voodoos flying near the end of the month because the individual pilot flight hour quotas were assessed at the end of each month. I've always found that to be strange. If I were flying a voodoo I would have thought I would be flying one at every available opportunity.

My old man grew up listening to the sounds of 416 taking off doing training drills. we still got one on display at the now decommissioned base in Chatham

I was so darned Proud to have seen and met many pilots of this incredible intercept fighter the CF-101 Voodoo's Scream overhead, burned solidly in my brain. This also brings fore to my memory of a Plasma Ball I witnessed over Prince George BC where the CFB Baldy Whews A Radar Site (closed in the late 70s) but back then when UFOs buzzed us they would call to CFB Cold Lake Alberta and 2 CF 101 Voodoo's were there so quick I saw both. It helped this ball of plasma was not in a real hurry. Pilots saw it took pics of but could not lock radars on it. Thanks for this most memorable super Canadian Call to regain the pride in our broken Nation is the first Best thing we can do to help the Nation to heal despite of our governance ❤❤

Very cool to see one still parked at the entrance to the Abbotsford Airport.

This SO awesome! Back when Canadians knew their history and loved their country

There's one in the boneyard behind the museum at Shearwater, NS. Yours for the price of the scrap...

Jet crews may have liked the Voodoos, but with the rapid advances in jet design, they were obsolete the moment they rolled off the assembly line back in the late 50s/early 60s. Case in point: The USSR's TU-95 Bear bomber pilots that were intercepted along the Canadian Arctic and west coasts would purposely fly their plane below the stall speed of the CF-101, which would force them to circle the Bears to stay with them, thus fatiguing the pilots and burning excessive fuel. That is not stellar performance for an interceptor. Glad we got the CF-18s to replace them. They were a remarkable engineering achievement for their time.

Loved seeing the Voodoo at the Moncton NB Airport Air Shows during the early 1970's. Very loud and impressive as they broke the sound barrier.

She was a beast! I remember fondly those days in the 1970s seeing them perform at the CNE airshow -- and Dude, when that afterburner kicked in you knew it!

Summer 1980 Dayton Airshow (just a few miles from Wright-Patterson so huge military support). Was talking to an A-4 pilot who turned out to be in command of a Marine Aggressor squadron. I said it would seem a more junior officer would be sent to represent at an airshow in Ohio. Early in his career he had served as an exchange officer with the RCAF and his best friend now headed a CF-101 squadron and was flying the Dayton F-101 demonstration as a farewell to the 101. So, the Marine took the A-4 gig when his bud swore that on his low pass he would be BELOW gear down altitude. It was to be in about 10 minutes. The Voodoo was clean, no tanks, but son of a ...... he freaking did it. Maybe more amazing/scary was how hard he was wrapping into turns given the the Voodoo's pitch-up issues at high AOA. I always loved the 101 but that demo was amazing. Canadian comes down to the belly-button of the USAF in a 28 yr old airplane and steals the show. AWESOME.

The Voodoo has such an amazing profile. It just looks so good.

I think it's super cool how u can see the panels of the plane riveted and welded together

Great vid! Thanks for not lamenting the loss of the greatest jet fighter ever made , the Arrow (tongue-in-cheek), like so many of these videos do ad nauseum.

another awesome video thank you once again

My buddy and I were canoeing on Burntroot Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park back in the day when we saw one scream overhead. We were going from our island campsite to the mainland one morning to pick blueberries when one went over us 'just above the treetops' as they say. It was a quiet day with calm waters, a perfect morning in the wilderness. To this day my buddy and I say, "The pilot had blue eyes" in reference to how low that Voodoo was and in the quiet of the wilderness the legendary noise of these things was amplified. Considering the course it was flying we thought it was going from Trenton to North Bay.

When I was a young kid, my Dad, my brother & I were out on a small lake fishing northeast of the 414, when 2- 101s came full on south to north just above tree top level,... we nearly capsized!

I saw 4 Voo Doos perform at the Abbotsford airshow in the 80s. I had just finished reading a book about the Avro Arrow and I have never been so upset after reading a book. I was terribly disappointed in the events of canceling and destroying the all Canadian Arrow. At this time at the airshow the VooDoos were quite old and I wasn't expecting much from them. The RCAF put on a good show flying one behind the other, low level, high speed, thundering overhead exactly as the clock struck 1pm. Old technology at the time but still impressive and powerful.

I spent a year on the Pine Tree line at CFS Sioux Lookout.

A good looking machine.

loved the video! excited to check out all your other videos as Canadian history is important to me

Loved the Voodoo Never forget the low pass a Voodoo made at the CFB Shearwater Airshow around 1979. Scared the crap out of everyone lol..... came from nowhere ....

Another good mini-doc...

Some jargon you should use in future videos. Bombs fall from the sky by gravity, nuclear armed missiles and rockets are equipped with warheads, not bombs. Also, the air force and commercial air industry does not use the word "crash". It uses "accidents" (usually resulting in the loss of the aircraft and potential loss of life) and incidents (usually involving damage and no loss of life). Love your work so far. Keep it up!

In 86 at Namaeo air show voodoo was decommissioned, piliot flew east then came from west 3 minutes later 500 ft from over our heads well over mach!!! Big boom!! Piliots sitting on wings almost fell off from shock!!! Been my favourite plane ever since!!! The story of a voodoo pilot who came across an sr71 who tried to race it, he wasn’t susdesfull it against an f18 on a flat I think this old plane would kick its but’!! A true muscle car of old fighters!! Go voodoo!!’ 😃

Love the look of the black electronic warfare bird.

What a beautiful machine. I had no idea they served that long!

One of my uncles flew a Voodoo out of Comox. I remember watching him fly it in the airshow at CFB Namao in the 70's. Holy shit that was a long time ago. There is one on display at the Aviation museum in Edmonton now at the old municipal airport.

The aircraft #425 from the alberta aviation museum in Edmonton is currently being disassembled and sent down to Calgary to their museum

A video about Canada's nuclear weapons during the Cold War would be a pretty neat topic.

This chnnel is great. You do really good work. When I was little, I loved looking at pictures of the Voodoo.

There's a Voodoo in Lynx livery in Halifax alongside the highway across from the airport at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum. I've driven by it for years and always wondered the story behind it. Tail number on it is 416

The Voodoo is what Canada settled with after Ottawa's cluster which decided to scrap and destroy the CF-105 Arrow.

Don't know how I haven't seen this channel before!!!!! Excellent content and great narrative!!!! Liked and subbed immediately!!!!! Keep up the great work!!!!

I was MP at CFS Val D’or in 1970 see it all

Great video - thanks again for these excellent, informative, and accurate features. Bravo.

I was stationed at CFB Valdor and we had Voodoos. Great plane.

Lived cfb Como from 1968 to1974 father was a voodoo medicine man loved watching them take off .It was jaw dropping to them take off then stand on their tail and disappear i

My dad flew this. He was in the USAF

Sadly, there is a full Voodoo assembled shell sitting at the Airport in London Ontario on side parking tarmac.. YXU. Engines were removed but exist. Presumably it was to be rebuilt and put in to Londons Jet Aircraft Museum. YXU London Ontario Canada. Sadly, this sweetie has been sitting outside for years with NOTHING being done. Every time I go by I feel positively heartsick. Thought someone whould know.

There's 1 of them at the Aircraft museum in Ottawa and another in the War Museum in Ottawa

Great video! Excellent production.

At 3:37, watch the traffic going backwards on the road in the background.

I remember seeing many CF-101 Voodoo flybys as a kid to young adult before they were replaced by the CF-18 hornet in the mid 1980's. Today the CF-18 is likely being replaced by the F-35.

You left out the CF-101s serving at joint CAF/USAF base, Hamilton AFB. They served in USAF colors. I have many fond memories of the 101s at Hamilton.

Great review and a wealth of info... thanks

Great Vid, thanks!🙂

We were at an airshow on the 'Air Force' side (Namao) of CFB Edmonton. Just came out of the visiting USAF 'Spooky' C-130 gunship on the tarmac, when two Voodoos from CFB Comox came over the crowd from behind (not allowed now) and went full afterburner then climbing almost straight up, my girlfriend almost pissed herself. She liked the RAF Harrier better.

Pretty sure one of my instructors at CFB Kingston (CFSCE) ejected from a CF 101. Last name "Hughes". I think he re-classified into comms after the ejection (1980s?). One ejection in your life is enough. Anyone have a tally of CF101 ejections/crashes?

Binge-watching your videos, also just subscribed. Just a tiny note: Chatham, NB, is pronounced "Chat-'um", not "Chath-um".

The Voodoo always interested me. I see it all the time, we've got one in North Bay painted up in the black 414 EW livery, its just across from the airport beside some period radar sets. Still kinda crazy to think that air to air nuclear rockets not only survived design and planning but were actually produced and deployed. Nuts to think about nowadays.

Wonderful!

What I find interesting about the CF-101 Voodoo is that it was examined by Canadians prior to the CF-105 and was found to NOT meet Canadian requirements and thus the CF-105 project was carried on.

From the above picture. You can see the influence it had on the F4 phantom

Nice! I think I saw in your video the Voodoo that's on display in my home city of Lévis (Québec)

I was in Bagotville when these were flying - I was a Weapons Tech - guarded the Nucs

the more I hear about the history of the Canadian Warplane History since the cancellation of the CF-105 and the subsequent demise of our Military Aircraft Industry has led to our total dependance of American Aircraft. Is that a good thing ? just sayin

This was the generation of the idea of no more dogfighting. Carry nukes and bomber interceptor while going as fast a possible was the thinking.

Look at that! A nice 'Canadian' Interceptor. Might have been a great plane for the RCAF, but bottom line it replaced the Avro Arrow. Oh right, the 'Bomark missiles' were the replacement for the Arrow. :(

Very informative. Did not know

Ah, now I have something to do this morning. Edit: First

5:43 the 425 squadron was originated in Bagotville QC. And it always been there! Never been in Alberta

The nuclear weapons for these fighters were stored at Canadian air bases, but guarded by American troops who were, of course, armed and authorized to use lethal force. It was an unusual situation.

We got a Voodoo gate guard at CFB North Bay.

As an American baby boomer, the RCAF's role within NORAD has always been very interesting. The Voodoo was an excellent aircraft, and its extensive use by Canada for continental defense was well done. In a separate issue: proposals to acquire upwards of ten Canada-class SSN's to defend Arctic territorial waters against incursions by foreign subs (including American) would be a fit subject

The Canadian Air Force has a great history. Join up and you could fly the same aircraft your great granddad did. Now that's history. ;)

I always thought that the Voodoo was the best looking interceptors. I got to watch them flying out of Portland international Airport for the air national guard unit until they were replaced byF-15C's.