Thanks Bryan. I would be very interested to learn what the outcome would have been had the designers incorporated the Area Rule approach. I have to believe the top speed would have been eye watering!

Thank you very much, Rex.

I worked for an electrical contractor in Tulsa in the 70’s. We worked regularly at Spartan School of Aeronautics. I believe that this plane was at Spartan at that time, outside, between two of their classrooms. Bryan, thanks for all of your effort. The website is outstanding. I visit it every day.

Pete, I am no aerodynamicist, but I agree that there is no obvious “Coke bottle” shape to the aircraft. I think that McDonnell emphasized the engine intake design and blended the wing into the fuselage, then relied on brute power.

Did the Voodoo incorporate the Area Rule design philosophy? I do not see a pinched waist in any photos of this beautiful aircraft. If it does not utilize the Area Rule approach, I am surprised by it’s top speed.

The JF-101A set an FAI absolute world record for speed, averaging 1,943.5 kilometers per hour (1,207.64 miles per hour). Please sea TDiA for 12 December 1957 at: https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/12-december-1957/

My wife asked the curator for a piece off of the Voodoo, and I own the canopy jettison handle.

Hi, Jeffrey. Check the photograph at:

http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt3290057f/z1&&brand=oac4

In the mid-90s, I had an office in the hangar at the center of the photograph, and my three helicopters were ordinarily parked inside over night. Unfortunately,it burned down around 1994. (Luckily, my helicopters were parked outside that night.)

The circular facility has long since turned into a commercial and residential area. There are still a lot of farm fields surrounding the airport.