Warlocks CF-101 Voodoo Air Demonstration Team

A short clip of the "Warlocks" CF-101 Voodoo Airshow team from 425 Sqn Bagotville 1977. Features some behind the scene footage from the ground and the air.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• CF101
• Voodoo
• 425 Sqn
• fighter
• jet
• airshow
• formation
• flying
• F101
• air force
• demonstration
• Canada
• Bagotville

[dugystube]

Don't know where you heard that. The Voodoo had a huge cockpit both front and back. Lots of aviators were over 6' tall.

[171zippos]

Thanks for the vids, cool to see my uncle Capt. Bob Robichaud in action, never got to see him fly in person as I was 6 when he tragically passed...

I lived in Lévis, QC for 2 years, where, just down the street, the 101015 sits in a park, and got chills everytime I passed by...

[dugystube]

@171zippos

Glad you enjoyed it. I flew dozens of missions with Robie, and have spoken with his brothers since the accident. He was a great aviator and a very nice person.

[chaff2]

Hey Doug, at 4:46 u see a two ship on short final but only the lead has the landing light on...was there any purpose of only having the lead's light on? This is a great vid, thanks very much for posting this.

[dugystube]

@chaff2

As a back seater, I'm not entirely sure what the convention was. I suspect it was for tower's benefit for visual, and since the formation is treated as a single landing, only one light would be necessary. ???

[nordyouz]

Brought back a lot of memories, there is just nothing like the hard burner light of the Voodoo J-57's. I saw the Warlocks in Bagotville in 1977, and was so impressed that to this day the one o wonder is still my favourite aircraft of all time. Too bad two members of the team Capts. Bob Robichaud(00:33)and Bob Borland(00:49) were killed shortly after takeoff on Dec.1/1977 in Voodoo #101017(01:04) in a routine squadron training mission.

[aerobic73]

Bob Robichaud was my brother. Sad day indeed. Called out of Co Directors'meeting in Cleveland with the

news. Unable to land at Bagotville that afternoon

on company plane due to shutdown of airport.

Like me, he was known as Robbie.

[colindhowell]

@seano467 Photo-reconnaissance, actually, not electronic eavesdropping. They were starting to be replaced by Phantoms during Vietnam. Fast as the Voodoo was, it wasn't as fast as the Phantom or the MiG-21, and after a Voodoo was shot down by a MiG-21 over North Vietnam, the Voodoos were replaced by Phantoms over that territory.

[rock853okg]

They say that since the Voodoo aircraft had such a small cockpit with instruments at the knees that anybody who had to eject would rip their legs right off. I guess you had to be really short to safely fly and possibly eject from this plane

[seano467]

The Voodoo was used in Vietnam as an electronic eavesdropping platform because they could fly so fast and dodge the telephone polls being lobbed at them from the ground .They were used specifically for missions over enemy territory.Not as an attack air frame but to sneek and peek at Charlie.The commies couldn't hit them with their inferior Russian ground to air missles.The F4 phantom took their role over in the eighties.

[seano467]

The Canadian aero demonstration team ought to adopt the CF 18 for their next plane.Its time to get rid of those slow as molasses Tudors.And they're also ugly ducklings!Just my opinion of course.

[dugystube]

@SuperMauricioromero

1977

[zx7gp]

@dugystube I know!!!one of the pilots looked like Hunter S Thompson in Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas