Salute!
Can go on about the Voodoo, but prolly best on its own thread, and we might even get some other others to contribute. Imagine a thread about an airplane from RCAF and USAF versus the never ending ones about another country's planes that dominate this forum?
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The plane was made to go fast and climb, which it did. At normal holding and maneuvering CAS up at 35,000 ft, it would burble in a turn with over 30 deg of bank, he heh. That was about 0.8 M Down low, no problem but still about 2 gees at 300, then another gee for every 50 kts.
It climbed as good as the Viper, and the flight manual is available. Above 25,000 we climbed supersonic for best rate. On cold days at Grand Forks, like zero to 10 or so, our burner takeoff roll was about 3,000 feet or so if we had only internal fuel, and our sqd policy was to fly clean except on exercises where we were fragged for CAP. Bur the alert birds were clean.
At 49,500 (pressure suit rules), we could cruise at 1.15 M or so, with one engine at mil and the other using min burner. We did that as tgts for other folks. Come outta burner, pull back to idle and roll over. Stayed supersonic in idle going down maybe 30 to 40 deg dive until 35,000 or so. The game we played was to see if we could stay at idle until short final back home from 100 miles away. For that you didn't dive but just turned easy and picked up 275 or so.
Fire control system was very good for its time, and maybe the F-4D was better and also had the air to ground stuff. The hydraulically tuned maggie and the "internal lobing" on the waveguide as very good for tracking.
... Gums sends..
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