Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam Shorts F-101 Voodoo

[@fredschmidt6802]

My friend Charles Raymond skinner . Was in the air force during Vietnam . Was stationed in Rome new York . Strategic air command . He packed para shoot for the pilots and 101 boo doo & b52 bomer . He said drag shoots suck . They are full of everything . Rocks bugs dead animal Trash .

[@bonnerapplegate4824]

I love the F101 such a unique and cool plane, and you can see some inspiration from it on the F4s

[@carolrenebilyeu2807]

My father lt. lowell bilyeu was deployed oct 69. And flew the F 101 . That was his favorite plane to fly as well. He brought back beautiful pictures of huge budas in the woods. He did get shot at. My dad had voodo in is blood

[@carolrenebilyeu2807]

My dad flew the f101 in the william tell contest lin tynsdale florida. They took 2nd place. He was part of the 59th fighter squdron goosebay

[@rossmum]

It's a shame the 101 is so obscure. I'd love to see a CF-101B in a combat sim somewhere, there are still quite a few on static display. My hometown Edmonton has two that I can think of, both outside the aviation museum.

[@gregoryboyek622]

Hey subscriber #100 here. Just wanted to say I appreciate your well thought out vids. Brings be back to when I used to play hours of missions of modded Wings over Europe/Vietnam when I was growing up.

[@Dexter037S4]

One of if not my favorite aircraft of all time. Saw one up close in Wetaskiwin, Alberta and fell in love with the Voodoo.

[@thejetfighter]

Awesome video 😀

[@thetreblerebel]

The F101 is a St Louis Missouri native with the McDonnel Douglas factory and Headquarters being by Lambert Field St Louis Missori. So was the F4 Phantom , the St Louie Slugger!

[@chuckcawthon3370]

Fascinating Graphics. Well Done Sir.

[@ronaldwatson1951]

Very good briefing and great discussion of the history of the Voodoo. It's one of my favorites also and fighter bombers are is my intrest. Great landing also and yep that landing speed is something else.

[@Riccardo_Silva]

Your videos are really nice and filled with interesting historical data and facts. Well done! I'm fond about Vietnam air war history and your "reenactments" are, i think, rather realistic, aren't they? Moreover, you're the only youtuber, as far as i found yet, who's making great contents using TK's little big sim, which i like a lot. Keep up this good work, and thank you a lot! (of course, i'm a subber! 😀) 👍🏻!

[@craigmurrellphotography6081]

Great series mate, well done 👍

[@Malfeus]

Officially the RCAF calls the CF-18s that replaced the 101s CF-188A/Bs. We're also still not over the Arrow thing.

[@devinhorner2358]

I'm sorry I didn't do my due diligence on the CF-188! Thanks for the correction, I'm not as familiar with Canadian equipment and it didn't come up in my research. I did grow up with a model of the Arrow on my dad's shelf, though. I'm sorry for your loss.

[@Malfeus]

@@devinhorner2358 I bet there's RCAF pilots that don't know about the 188 thing. I discovered it when I was downloading the mod for Strike Fighters and I've spent 30 years calling the CF-18s. It's some kind of air force hipster thing if you ask me.

[@theshocker4626]

They express their displeasure in a peculiarly Canadian fashion, they elected Fidels bastard. XD

[@Dexter037S4]

@James Cowan While that was true, the days of the Interceptor were numbered, the Arrow was an expensive program that while ahead of it's time, was too ahead of it's time. It would have been pushed into a strike fighter role just like the CF-104, and as seen in the MiG-25/31 (which were heavily based on the Arrow, easy to see in the design of both) have proven to be dreadful ground attackers in their time, thus being redesignated to the Interceptor role. Ultimately, the Arrow would have suffered from the same faults as the F-102 and F-106, it's role would have been obsolete by the time it entered service.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

The hip music means one thing. Something about explosions and killing in SE Asia with cool stuff as well.

[@meertenwelleman6249]

One of the most elegant fighters.

[@Tigermoto]

You saw the fighter pilot podcast and binge watching too? You're every Voodooing where. Lol

[@Riccardo_Silva]

P. S. BTW great music!

[@ivebeenbamboozled9210]

That landing speed is killer man.

[@экзорцист-н4щ]

nice

[@thetreblerebel]

Looks like a fun game

[@TarnishUK]

That's one for me and my boy at the weekend. :o)

[@thesnazzycomet]

how do i play this game?

[@apocyldoomer]

The Voodoo never saw combat, however, the recon F-101 took pictures of the Russian missies in Cuba, during the Cuban missile crisis .

[@Serkay64]

Weren't those F-8 Crusaders?

[@thesnazzycomet]

@@Serkay64 not in 1962 no

[@splash2815]

The RF 101 (also a voodoo) absolutely saw combat.

[@apocyldoomer]

@@splash2815 So, when and where, we were told that she never had a role in combat, worked on a retired 101 whilst in tech school in the USAF, 1983.

[@splash2815]

@@apocyldoomer It's pretty well documented. In the 60's in Vietnam the RF101's flew thousands of low level reconnaissance missions. I also know this because my father flew RF101c's in vietnam. (That's how old I am!) It may be that they were talking about that particular plane or the F101 (fighter only version). I don't believe the fighter only version flew in Vietnam - not 100% sure on that.

[@cscdvmp]

How looking around camera is so smooth :) ?

[@devinhorner2358]

I use TrackIR to look around.

[@jpjpjp453]

Is there an actual campaign for the RF101, or is this a custom mission?

[@devinhorner2358]

This was a single mission, but with the "Mission Editor" DLC you can select any plane to fly within a campaign

[@jpjpjp453]

@@devinhorner2358 That's really something. I'm longtime flyer in Gen-1 WOV and WOE going back years. WOV Gold expansion vet from the go. WOE ODS mod pilot on it's day of introduction. Even flew as Sov pilot in WOE in 1962 and as a N. Vietnamese against the Yankees in another mod. I still have things on an older XP computer but your videos have really got me looking at the 2nd generation since i finally got a Windows 10 computer. (Still favor XP though) Flying Recce birds is one of my favorite pastimes and the RF-101 would be a big challenge over N. Vietnam. Gen1 was a pain to modify certain mission/campaigns kind of things so it looks then like it's a lot easier in the more recent material. Looks like you sold me. Tomorrow i make orders and get all the patches, etc.

[@devinhorner2358]

@@jpjpjp453 I also started in WoV many moons ago. It was on shelf in a game store, when such places still carried PC titles. I discovered the larger SF2 world later but liked that it had much more variety and mods.

[@jpjpjp453]

@@devinhorner2358 Well, i got it and am having a real great time with it. Just flying all kinds of aircraft on single mission is worth the purchasing price alone. All the available campaigns will keep one busy for a very long time.

[@Iamrightyouarewrong]

My dad flew this plane.

[@splash2815]

Mine too! Do you remember which squadron?

[@splash2815]

Mine flew with the Polka dots.

[@TheBranchez]

Hey buddy, how do you mod this game? Could you point me to a good guide or something? Thx.

[@devinhorner2358]

Run the game at least once to initialize it. In your "User" file, where your My Videos and My pictures etc are, there is another folder called "Saved Games." At least in Windows 7 thats where it is, I assume there is a similar location for later Windows OS's. Click on Thirdwire folder, then Strike Fighters 2. This is the Mod Folder. And mods you open should have corresponding folders like Terrain, Objects, Campagains, etc. Copy and paste all files of the mod into the matching folders in the Mod Folder. Make sure to read all ReadMe's in mods because sometimes things need to be installed in certain orders.

[@TheBranchez]

@@devinhorner2358 hey man, thx for the quick response! I have all the games (as per your instructions *wink wink) and have run them all at least once. I updated main one with the in-game auto-updater to June 2013 if I am not mistaken, and now they all seem to be updated to the same patch. Is that ok? Do you mod all the games separately or? I also guess that like other games, I also need to make sure that mids are updated to the latest patch? And what about conflicting mods? Sorry about so many questions but I can't seem to find any proper tutorials online.

[@devinhorner2358]

@@TheBranchez No problem! You're not alone with the questions. I'm going to whip up a quick video today to walk through it. But in the meantime, yes you should be up to date. I launch the main game and drop all my mods into the main Strike Fighters 2 file. I think they call this the "merged" install in the forums. So far I've not encountered any mods that conflict, but if they do its real easy to delete files from the mod folder and reinstall the ones you want. As for updated mods, the game hasn't received any updates since 2013, and now it looks like the game is dead and the developer isn't supporting it any more. This means that all the mods out there are up to date because everyone is working off the 2013 update, so its all good.

[@TheBranchez]

@@devinhorner2358 thx! I look forward to that video very much. You have already helped me quite a lot and clarified some things for me. Which mods would you recommend?

[@devinhorner2358]

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[@Astarothh6]

I hate the water in this game, only that

[@SJkopa]

war thunder

[@grahamcox8385]

It's a stupid video game thing, totally lame and boring

[@jpjpjp453]

Idiot.