In the early '70s I was a crew chief on F-101s. One of the first airshows I worked as a crew chief, the pilot landed after an early show 4 ship demo. When I helped him out of the cockpit, he told me to only fill the fuel system to 50% (about 1000 gallons). I couldn't do a post flight and sign it off without a full load. I had to get the acting Chief of Maintenance to sign off on it. I launched him as a solo. He put on one heck of a show. I don't think he was airborne more than 10 minutes and never came out of burner! His name was Capt. Ken Gurry...on heck of a pilot. He was a weekender who owned an Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning company. BTW...the WSO used the paper bag...if you know what I mean. IIRC, he had less than 200 gallons left when he landed.
I know I posted this before, but it is my only photo of an F-101 taken by our TxANG photographer Bucky Densford.
In the early '70s I was a crew chief on F-101s. One of the first airshows I worked as a crew chief, the pilot landed after an early show 4 ship demo. When I helped him out of the cockpit, he told me to only fill the fuel system to 50%. I couldn't do a post flight and sign it off without a full load. I had to get the acting Chief of Maintenance to sign off on it. I launched him as a solo. He put on one heck of a show. I don't think he was airborne more than 10 minutes and never came out of burner! His name was Capt. Ken Gurry...on heck of a pilot. He was a weekender who owned an Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning company. BTW...the WSO used the paper bag...if you know what I mean.
I know I posted this before, but it is my only photo of an F-101 taken by our TxANG photographer Bucky Densford.
Jul 19, 2017 at 10:27 PM
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