Also known as:
"The Clunk" - "The Lead Sled"
"CF-Zero" - "The Beast"...
but dearly loved by all
those who mastered it and pushed it to its surprising limits for those days!
"Scorpions", "F-102s", "Javelins", etc. were
no match to it, Afterburners or Reheat at full blast!
Wingspan: 18,54 m (60' 10")
Length: 16,51 m (54' 2")
Height:
4,45 m (14' 7")
Weight: 15,241 kg (33,600 lbs)
Engines: Two 3,311 kg (7,300 lbs) thrust
Avro Canada Orenda 11 Turbojets
Max. Speed:
480 knots, Mach 0.84
892 km/h (554 mph)
Cruise Altitude: 12,192
m (40,000 ft.) plus
Ceiling: 14,630
m (48,000 ft.)
Max. Range: 3,219 km (2,000 miles)
Designed and built in Canada,
the CF-100 was Canada's greatest
indigenous military aircraft.
From 1950 to 1958, 692 were built for the RCAF.
The aircraft equipped Canada's 13 front-line
all-weather fighter squadrons and remained in service until 1981.
The armament consisted of various combinations of machine guns and air-to-air rockets,
both guided and unguided.
RCAF MK5 variant of the CF-100 normally had
a pod which carried 29" (62 mm) unguided
rocket missiles on each wingtip.
