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Born as a long range escort fighter for U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers, the McDonnell F-101 was developed in several versions. Both were involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a supersonic fighter plane which flew with the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The F-101B was configured as a two seat interceptor for the Air Defense Command (ADC), the F-101C was used as tactical bomber relying on its beefed-up structure, and the RF-101C was the tactical reconnaissance version of the F-101C. These three models were used or kept on alert during the tense moments of the Cuban Missile Crisis. When a U-2 revealed the presence of the Soviet R-12 (SS-4 in NATO designation) theater ballistic missile sites in Cuba on Oct. 14 1962, post-mission analysis highlighted the presence of SA-2 surface to air missiles. With several SAM batteries surrounding Cuban missile sites, subsequent reconnaissance missions had to be flown by fast tactical aircraft flying low level “recce” missions. Tactical Air Command (TAC) RF-101As and Cs as well as by U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusaders were tasked to spy on Soviet progress on the island. Image credit: U.S. Air Force After President Kennedy announced that photos from American reconnaissance planes had disclosed the presence of Soviet surface to surface missile armed with nuclear warhead at Cuba, U.S. homeland air defense forces were put on heightened alert status, preparing for the imminent war. “In the Air Force, while our bombers reinforced their around the clock airborne alert flights, fighters deployed to and near Florida, in preparation for tactical strikes, while our air defense units sent interceptors to emergency fields, for both survival and readiness should Soviet bombers attack,” Jonathan Myer, an F-101B pilot, recalls in Ted Spitzmiller’s “Century Series The USAF Quest for air supremacy 1950-1960” book. “I remember our 13th FIS (Fighter Interceptor Squadron) aircrews listening tensely to President Kennedy’s October 22nd speech, as some of us prepared to deploy from Glasgow AFB (Air Force Base), Montana, to the municipal airport at Billings.” The deployment was accomplished with the F-101Bs loaded with both the pair of AIR-2A Genie unguided rockets with nuclear warheads and the pair of infrared-homing AIM-4C Falcon missiles, mounted in the “rotodoor” (the F-101B weapons bay’s rotary armament door). “We flew there fully loaded, in pairs and with our AIR-2A nucs and IR missiles ready for war, while maintenance and supplies followed by truck. Landing on Billings’ unprepared runway incurred a few cut tires, while our makeshift alert area was cordoned off and a 24 hour phone alert set up in a hangar. […] Fortunately, no Soviet escalation ensued and a couple of weeks later we returned to Glasgow to resume regular alert and training,” Myers says. Bon Hanson was instead an 81st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) F-101C driver, who gave his account to Spitzmiller, explaining the preparations for a nuclear strike mission that had to be undertaken across the Atlantic Ocean, after the take off from RAF Bentwaters: “I was on alert the day the Cuban Missile Crisis balloon went up. It was around 0900, and we went to RED cockpit alert until nightfall, and then reverted to 15 min. But, initially we really thought we were going! And for the next week or more the whole wing was loaded and ready to launch! It was serious!” Eventually, the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba and the U.S. removed their Jupiter missiles from Turkey and later from Italy, thus avoiding World War III. RF-101C Voodoos flew the reconnaissance flights that the provided Washington the required evidence that Soviet nuclear missile site were being removed from Cuba. Top image credit: U.S. Air Force via Aircraftinformation.info http://theaviationist.com/2014/06/20/f-101-voodoo-cuban-crisis/

If you have access to BBC iPlayer - nice intro to WW1 dogfighting http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0211xzr/ww1-uncut-8-combat-in-the-skies

I was thinking that it didn't look right before I posted it - are you sure? The Su looks a lot brighter for sure - should look like this

Options -> Sound -> Speech Subtitles?

There are a few photos of the Argentine A-4Cs having the 5 hardpoints as well as the one above - must have been upgraded before handing them over in the 70s

OK only lost again - but luckily all we need to do now is hope Italy beat both Costa Rica and Uruguay - then we have to beat Costa Rica about 4 nil

Looks to be correct - wonder if they got a new wing Their A-Bs (A-4P/Q) still looks to have the 3 A-4C Some other upgraded C/Ls A-4SU A-4PTM

Chile were good - but Spain looked like they would rather be on a beach

Not in anything I have outside of test firings the A-4E can though which is my fave version Argentina had a few Cs - just thinking where they would fit outside of Vietnam

The A-4C only had 3 hardpoints - 1 centreline and 2 under the wing Some were upgraded to A-4L with a hump - but still only had the 3. The later longer nosed A-4E/F have 5 points. The weapons it carries in SF2 are probably pretty accurate including MER/TER Standard Gravity bombs MK-81 to 84 /M-117 and LAU rocket pods for example, AGM-12 Bullpup

Iraq has formally called on the US to launch air strikes against jihadist militants who have seized several key cities over the past week. "We have a request from the Iraqi government for air power," confirmed top US military commander Gen Martin Dempsey in front of US senators http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-27905849

Normally changing the Opacity - What are you editing the TGA in Photoshop?

Watching the USA v Ghana match - US are 1 up after 31 seconds!

Trailer - Aug 2014?

http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article4854.html

Seemed a bit lethargic - frustrating but predictable for us - all the best to Italy And Costa Rica are top of the group! - was hoping they would be beatable! France up tomorrow.

You saying Falcon 4 didnt look like that in pure 1998 DX7..........

Nah - what could go wrong

Also check your actual broadband speed - I still only have 0.5mbps upload so cloud is a no no for anything other than small files. Local storage is better for me - as I recently upgraded I have USB 3 ports (4-5Gbps) so thats my best choice. Regards to backing up - if you want to keep something you need 2 copies on 2 different devices - normally this would be a PC and a backup drive. If you only have it on one device its not really backed up. Even with a cloud as proved on this site the company can screw up the servers losing everything, or go out of business, or one day maybe you just cant afford their payments anymore. Consider putting in a larger 2nd hard disk if you can so you don't have to keep deleting things off the PC - but yes a local cloud setup could be another option if you have the money.

That might be the only thing that could save us - playing in typical pub team conditions! Okay - so did I say Spain?? - the same world champions currently getting stuffed 5-1 by Netherlands

Nooooooooo - sad to see the end of a great era!!

Ring tech support! If not welcome to the world of Blender