SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE NORTHEAST SAC - ADC FACILITY 1950s - 1969

l'USAF'F-106 DELTA DART INTERCEPTOR

I WANT TO THANK WHOMEVER POSTED THESE PICTURES BECAUSE BEING ABLE TO LOOK BACK IN TIME AND SEE THE ACTIVITY AND AIRCRAFT IS SO RARE AND THEIR HAS NOT BEEN MANY PHOTOS OF SUFFOLK IN IT'S COLD WAR ADC DAYS THE US AIR FORCE MUSEUM ARCHIVES HAD NOTHING AS DID LOCAL AVIATION MUSEUMS AND GROUPS SO THE FACT THAT THESE ARE BEING SHARED WITH THOSE INTERESTED IS A PRIVILEGE AND A HONOR

F-101 VOODOO ALL WEATHER INTERCEPTOR

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        THE F-86 WAS PART OF THE ADC MISSION 1955-1959 

       



A F-102 DELTA DAGGER AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB 1960's

F-100 SUPER SABRE 

SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE FLIGHTLINE A VERY ACTIVE PLACE ON ALERT ALL THROUGH THE COLD WAR F-101 F-106/102s SAT IN ALERT HANGARS AT IDLE AWAITING A SCRAMBLE HORN AND UPON ALERT THE PILOTS RACED OUT TO THEM AND GOT AIRBORNE WITHIN MINUTES AS RADAR OPERATORS AT MONTAUK AIR STATION DIRECTED A FLIGHT OF INTERCEPTORS AT ANY UNIDENTIFIED "BOGEY" IN US AIRSPACE OR FLYING CLOSE TO ANY OF THE MANY RESTRICTED AREAS ON AND OFF LONG ISLAND, MOSTLY THESE ALERTS WOULD FIND A COMMERCIAL OR PRIVATE AIRCRAFT WITH THEIR TRANSPONDER OR "IFF" IDENT FRIEND OR FOE OFF, AND SOMETIMES A SOVIET "BEAR" STRATEGIC BOMBER WOULD WIND UP IN US AIRSPACE PROBABLY BECAUSE THEIR MAPS AND ELECTRONICS SUCKED AND UPON IDENTIFICATION WOULD BE ESCORTED OUT TO INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE, MOST STORIES I HAVE HEARD OF THESE ENCOUNTERS TALKED OF SOVIET BOMBER CREWS WAVING OR TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE INTERCEPTOR CREWS AND TAKING WHAT PROBABLY WAS PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS.EVEN WITH THESE EVENTS DURING 1966 SUFFOLK SCRAMBLED THEIR WING AT UNIDENTIFIED LIGHTS MOVING AT HIGH RATES OF SPEED MAKING NO NOISE OR NO ENGINE WAS HEARD,FAA HAD NOTHING FLYING OVER THE SOUTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND MILITARY OR CIVILIAN. SUFFOLK COUNTY PD WAS BARRAGED WITH REPORTS OF THESE LIGHTS AND FIFTH PRECINCT OFFICERS ON PATROL ALSO CONFIRMED THE LIGHTS TRAVELING EAST TOWARDS THE AFB AND THE NUCLEAR BOMARC FACILITY, INTERCEPTORS ARRIVED ON SCENE IN MINUTES AND SAW NOTHING AND THE STRANGE LIGHTS VANISHED! THERE WERE MANY REPORTS OF UFOs BETWEEN 1949 - 1970 WITH ONE CRASHING AT SOUTH HAVEN PARK 10 MILES WEST OF THE AIRBASE NOW CALLED GABRESKI IN THE 1990s ALSO IN THE 1960s USAF CONTACTED SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE STATING A AIR TO AIR MISSILE WITH A ARMED WARHEAD WAS LOST AROUND THE SOUTHSHORE OF L.I. AND TO KEEP A EYE OUT FOR IT, I NEVER HEARD OR READ IF IT WAS EVER FOUND....

A UNITED STATES AIR FORCE F-102 INTERCEPTOR WING SCRAMBLES OUT TO WAITING AIRCRAFT AND ARE AIRBORNE IN MINUTES

F-102 DELTA DAGGER SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB 1960
**NOTICE THE 52nd FIS SEEK ATTACK DESTROY ON
TAIL OF JET

F-100  SUPER SABRE PROBABLY ON ITS WAY OVER TO SOUTH VIETNAM TO DROP LOTS OF ORDNANCE

THIS ADC F-102 MAKES CONTACT WITH A SOVIET "BEAR" BOMBER LOADED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND A LIST OF TARGETS OFF OUR EASTERN SEABOARD, IT WILL BE HANDED OFF MANY TIMES TO VARIOUS ADC WINGS UNTIL IT IS FAR FROM OUR BORDERS

SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE WAS A AIR DEFENSE COMMAND BASE AND WAS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH NORAD AND "THE HOLE"STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND HQ AT OFFUT AFB NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE ON EVERY ALERT AIRCRAFT SCRAMBLED DURING A INTERCEPT ALERT UPON CONFIRMATION OF A UNIDENTIFIED RADAR CONTACT THESE ATOMIC WARRIORS WOULD USE THEIR AIR TO AIR NUCLEAR WEAPONS THEN IF THEY HAD TO GET CLOSER AND USE THE CANNONS TO BRING DOWN THE ENEMY AIRCRAFT UPON LAST RESORT THEY WOULD USE THEIR F-101/102/or106 AND RAM THE ENEMY AIRCRAFT WITH THEIRS.



THE ALERT HANGARS IN A RARE PHOTO SHOWING THE F-101 VOODOO INTERCEPTOR CANOPIES OPEN AND LADDERS IN PLACE UPON THE ALERT HORN THE PILOTS IN FLIGHT SUITS WOULD RUN OUT AND GET IN THEIR AIRCRAFT AND LEAVE THE ALERT HANGAR AND GET AIRBORNE WITH THEIR DUAL EXHAUST PIPE MAKING A LOUD BOOM AS THE AFTERBURNERS KICKED IN SENDING THIS AIRCRAFT AIRBORNE IN UNDER 5 MINUTES

HERW A SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB F-101 LETS A ATOMIC GENIE AIR 2 AIR ROCKET FLY DURING A LIVE FIRE EXERCISE IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THIS PARTICULAR DRILL WAS PART OF ANY ATOMIC TESTING

THIS USAF NUCLEAR WEAPON PROCEDURE CHART SHOWS A F-106 USING A AIR 2 AIR NUCLEAR MISSILE AND THE PROCEDURE PILOTS NEEDED TO TAKE TO AVOID THE ATOMIC FLASH AND RADIATION PULSE FROM THIS TYPE OF WEAPON DETONATING NOT TO MENTION IF ANY OTHER ATOMIC WEAPONS ABOARD THE TARGET AIRCRAFT WERE TO DETONATE.THIS TYPE OF DRILL WAS IMPORTANT TO USAF PILOTS SO THEY DID NOT GET CAUGHT IN THE WEAPONS EFFECTS THAT COULD DAMAGE THE AIRCRAFT OR GIVE THE PILOT A LETHAL DOSE OF RADIATION THAT WOULD KILL HIM IN HOURS AFTER THE FLASH FROM THE DETONATION OF THE AIR 2 AIR MISSILE