Plastic model aircraft F101 A/C VOODOO 1:48 Model kit

Product description : Plastic model aircraft F101 A/C VOODOO 1:48

KH80115 - F101 A/C VOODOO 1/48 plastic model aircraft

The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo is an American combat aircraft from the second half of the 1950s. It is the first fighter aircraft capable of exceeding 1,000 mph (1,609 km/h) to have been mass-produced. Built in just under 900 units, this second type of the Century Series Fighters remained in service until the early 1980s.

The first F-101As were delivered to operational units from May 1957 They were armed with 4 20 mm cannons and possibly an atomic bomb, but could not carry conventional bombs. Indeed, following the reversals of the American General Staff, the F-101 was now intended to serve as a fighter-bomber, capable of both air-to-air missions and dropping the atomic bomb.

As the F-101A was not well suited to its new low-altitude attack mission, an F-101C version was developed in 1957, with a reinforced structure capable of withstanding 7.33G and some other minor improvements. However, only 47 examples were built before the USAF finally gave up using the Voodoo for the attack. The rest of the production was transformed into as many RF-101Cs, an unarmed reconnaissance version which nevertheless remained capable of carrying an atomic bomb, and underwent some improvements to the photographic system during its career.