In 1950, the “fly-off” competition at Edwards
AFB between the McDonnell XF-88A VooDoo,
the Lockheed XF-90, and the North American YF-93 was concluded.
On the same date, in 1958, the second XF-88A
prototype, 46-526, which had been transferred to the NACA facility in Langley,
VA in February 1955 to provide spares in support of the XF-88B supersonic
propeller test program, was turned over to base storage for disposal as a
firefighting trainer.
On the same date
in 1967, an RF-101C departing Tan Son Nhut AB in Saigon, South Vietnam
experienced a sudden hydraulic failure, forcing the pilot to eject.
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