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The F-101 Voodoo was ordered by the Strategic Air Command
in 1951 as a long-range, all-weather fighter interceptor and
protective escort for the B-36. The F-101 carried nuclear
air-to-air missiles and conventional bombs. The
reconnaisance version of the F-101 was the aircraft that
provided many of the photos during the Cuban Missile
Crisis in 1962. The B model was a two-seat all-weather
interceptor but carried no internal cannon. Instead, a
rotary missile bay for three Falcon air-to-air missiles
was substituted.
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