CF-100

[Clave]

The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck entered service in with the RCAF in 1952 and the Belgian Air Force in 1957.

The Canuck was one of very few all-weather jet fighters in that era and so remained operational for a very long time.

The early versions were armed with machine guns, but the Mk IV versions onwards had rocket pods on the wing-tips. Each pod contained 29 x 70mm rockets.

CF-100 Mk V of 11 Escadrille Belgian Air Force 1958.

CF-100 Mk V of 349 Escadrille Belgian Air Force 1960.

CF-100 Mk V of 350 Escadrille Belgian Air Force 1960.

CF-100 Mk V of 428 Squadron RCAF Air Force 1956.

CF-100 Mk V of 440 Squadron RCAF Air Force 1957.

CF-100 Mk V of 445 Squadron RCAF Air Force 1956.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Thank you Clave ... lovely series as always. For some considerable time after being replaced by Voodoo's, the Clunk served as a counter measures intruder in warfare exercises, IIRC, and with its enormous power to weight ratio (for the time) was secunded to Cape Canaveral as a vertical chase plane on early rocket shots.

Proud Canadian
MM

Love them in black.

 

[Matt308]

 

[Gnomey]

Great work Clave!