{"id":82996,"date":"2023-10-03T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=82996"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T12:59:54","slug":"the-william-tell-aerial-gunnery-competitions-the-cf-101-voodoo-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/10\/03\/the-william-tell-aerial-gunnery-competitions-the-cf-101-voodoo-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The William Tell Aerial Gunnery Competitions; The CF-101 Voodoo in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8aegsIw8sl8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Polyus<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 23 Aug 2021<\/p>\n<p>William Tell: an aerial gunnery competition to assess NORAD&#8217;s interceptor squadrons. Canadian CF-101s entered 7 of these competitions and won 3 overall &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; awards as well as one &#8220;Top Unit&#8221; award. Pretty impressive results when considering how few squadrons Canada fielded as compared with the vast United States Air Force. Results confirmed that the CF-101s on quick reaction alert at bases across the country were indeed useful in their defense.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:42 William Tell Gunnery Competition<br \/>\n2:13 Canadian Voodoos in competition<br \/>\n3:52 Torch is passed to the Hornets<\/p>\n<p>Support me on Patreon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/polyusstudios\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/polyusstudios<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music:<br \/>\nDenmark &#8211; Portland Cello Project<\/p>\n<p>Research Sources:<br \/>\n<em>Sentinel Magazine<\/em> Jan-1973 &#8211; &#8220;William Tell&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Canadian results with CF-18 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa1NwVGFlLXBFckpyZmVZNVl4eDM0WkRXQXE1UXxBQ3Jtc0tuMkhRaDdHM2h5Q1pxaU5BYW9zdHFJZ0RwZEFkSDVrei0tYVpHYl9EZHhTa1VabHY1cGFpM3Y1X29oYzVDVzNMd3ZwVG4xdC1JS3ZJdFc3a3lQZlhiUjQ0eGtYRjNKMXFOV1BVRDZpa0I1M196MlpZZw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseret.com%2F1996%2F11%2F1%2F19275131%2Fcanadians-win-top-gun-contest-2-utahns-are-on-the-no-2-team&#038;v=8aegsIw8sl8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/1996\/11\/1\/192&#8230;<\/a>)<br \/>\nMcChord Air Museum &#8211; details and results (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXY2TTYwMzE1clpVZzBIU2RMZzhENEExTmpoZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsc1JDN3dFdk9RaXRBMnhTdW1oeXVpNGxJNlJxdE5fMnlROHlYTU9RWHZoXy16THp6RXhqUURPckgxZ0J4aDFNdU55ZVA5OUd0TENqc0ZvYURpTlI1UDJDdWMzdVhHZUV3UFk5c3dpNUlXUVJSenZMQQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcchordairmuseum.org%2FREV%2520B%2520OUR%2520HISTORY%2520UNITS%2520MISC.%2520%2520WT%2520THE%2520BEGINNING.htm&#038;v=8aegsIw8sl8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mcchordairmuseum.org\/REV%&#8230;<\/a>)<br \/>\n<em>Air Force<\/em> Magazine &#8211; results (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWtfdnVQRGpuOFZUTDk5RHJLUDJzajZ1R3UtUXxBQ3Jtc0trZFRsTVFKUmx4M2l2UzBFYlhMTlB1QlFURjcwN2daamh6aEI4dlVmVVAtdUhMa0dRWjJSLWpERTdXajZadXZMeG14S1Z2RlFKR2FxT2x5dnZnVV9ELUxtTXJHaGtJNEdLT1VpQy1zcXdtTTEyTEdPUQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airforcemag.com%2FPDF%2FMagazineArchive%2FMagazine%2520Documents%2F1996%2FMay%25201996%2F0596records.pdf&#038;v=8aegsIw8sl8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/PDF\/Magaz&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>#F101 #CanadianAerospace #PolyusStudios<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyus Published 23 Aug 2021 William Tell: an aerial gunnery competition to assess NORAD&#8217;s interceptor squadrons. Canadian CF-101s entered 7 of these competitions and won 3 overall &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; awards as well as one &#8220;Top Unit&#8221; award. Pretty impressive results when considering how few squadrons Canada fielded as compared with the vast United States Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5,13,663],"tags":[123,108,1349,214],"class_list":["post-82996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-aircraft","tag-coldwar","tag-norad","tag-rcaf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lAE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85028,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82996\/revisions\/85028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}