This Day in McDonnell Voodoo History: July 7

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.