THE F-102/106s ALL WEATHER, CENTURY SERIES EARLY ADC FIGHTER, INTERCEPTORS, PART OF SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB 1950s-1960s

  SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB

F-102 AND F-106

EARLY INTERCEPT AIRCRAFT 

F-102 DAGGER F-106 DART

THE ROLE OF THE AIR DEFENSE COMMAND MISSION DURING THE LATE 1950s 1960s

"SEEK ATTACK DESTROY"

MOTTO OF THE 52nd FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING STATIONED AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB

HERE AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB LONG ISLAND AN OPEN HOUSE LETS THE PUBLIC GET UP CLOSE TO THE F-102 NOTE THE HIGH VIS ORANGE ON THE TIPS OF THE AIRCRAFT DENOTING THAT IT IS ON ALERT AND A ARMED MILITARY JET AIRCRAFT THAT IS PART OF THE US MILITARYs DEFENSE FORCES OF THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES,  FROM ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

HERE A F-106 DELTA DART ON THE FLIGHTLINE IS BEING LOOKED OVER BY THE PUBLIC WHILE IN THE BACKGROUND F-101 VOODOO's ARE PARKED READY TO TAKE ON THE ROLE OF THE MAIN INTERCEPT AIRCRAFT FOR SUFFOLK

A RARE 1960s SHOT OF A F-102 DELTA DAGGER TAKEN ON THE RUNWAY BY THE PILOT AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE

 HERE THE F-106 DELTA DART SITS IN A RELAXED STATE BUT READY TO GO IF NEEDED AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFBs OPEN HOUSE

THE F-102 DELTA DAGGER FROM A DIFFERENT VIEW THE USAFs FIRST ALL WEATHER FIGHTER/INTERCEPTOR THOUGH IT HAD PROBLEMS IT IS A AERODYNAMIC SHAPE AND QUITE QUICK AND SMOOTH PREVIOUS FIGHTER INTERCEPTORS AT SUFFOLK CO. AFB WERE THE SUPER SABRE F-86 AND THE REPUBLIC F-80 SERIES




TO SEE F-102s THAT WERE PART OF THE NEW YORK AIR NATIONAL GUARD STATIONED AT THE FORMER SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB NOW CALLED "GABRESKI AIRPORT" AFTER THE COMMANDER OF THE 52nd FIS DURING SUFFOLK AFBs COLD WAR YEARS, THESE F-102s ARE PAINTED GREY AND NOT THE SHINY ALUMINUM LIKE THE 1960s AND ALSO TWO ARE CAMOFLAUGED AND MOST LIKELY SURPLUS FROM THE VIETNAM WAR THE FILM SHOWS THE YEAR 1975 AS THE FILMS RECORDING DATE. THE FILM IS A FEW POSTINGS AFTER THIS POST ON THE BLOG, GO ON AND CHECK OUT THE F-102s OVER LONG ISLAND.

THE F-102 & F-106 DELTA  DAGGER AND DARTS
ROLE IN PROTECTING THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES WITH AIR DEFENSE COMMAND WINGS DURING THE COLD WAR THE PATCH ABOVE CELEBRATES THE F-106 AND THE VERY SERIOUS JOB WITH AIR DEFENSE COMMAND THAT WAS MONITORED BY THE USAF AT NORAD IN CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN OR IN THE HOLE AT OFFUT NEBRASKA THE USAFs STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND UNDERGROUND NERVE CENTER. 

AN F-106 SHOOTS ITS AIR TO AIR NUCLEAR GENIE
/ FALCON , (AIR 24) THE USAF TECHNIQUE IS SHOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST HIDDEN ON A ROTARY MISSILE MAGAZINE IN THE BELLYS OF THESE AIRCRAFTS SO ITS AERO DYNAMICS WERE NOT DISTURBED AND THE SPEED OF THIS INTERCEPTOR WOULD HAD THE WIND RIPPING THE ROCKETS FROM THEIR HOLDERS AND THE JET WOULD LOSE ITS ROCKET SYSTEM OF NUCLEAR AIR TO AIR MUNITIONS.

ALL USAF JET AIRCRAFT HAD HIGH VIS ORANGE PAINTED ON WING TIPS TO SHOW THEY WERE FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT A PHOTO OF THE HIGH VIS PAINT IS AT THE TOP OF THE POST SHOWING THE F-106 PAINTED UP ON THE GROUND AT SUFFOLK AFB

THIS AD THAT RAN IN MAGAZINES WAS JOINTLY FUNDED BY CONVAIR AND THE USAF AIR DEFENSE COMMAND, SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB WAS SURROUNDED BY THE SUBURBS OF NEW YORK CITY AND EVERY DAY ADC WINGS WERE JETTING OUT FOR TRAININGS AND TO INTERCEPT WAYWARD SOVIET BOMBERS OFF THE COAST OF LONG ISLAND, THIS CREATED A HELL OF A SITE AS 5 OR MORE F-102s CAME FLYING OVERHEAD IN FORMATION SCARING THE HELL OUT OF THE AVERAGE SUBURBAN AND THE AREA AROUND BASES WERE LOUD AS JET ENGINES WERE TESTED OR IDLED AND EVEN MILITARY AIR TRAFFIC USING THE BASE AS A LAYOVER CREATED A RUCKUS SO CONVAIR THE ADC PUT OUT THIS EXCELLENT PIECE OF COLDWAR PROPAGANDA STATING THE ROAR OF JETS ENSURES YOUR FREEDOM AND PROTECTION AND IT WAS PATRIOTIC NOT TOO COMPLAIN ABOUT THESE ADC BASES THAT WERE AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLDWAR IN THE HUNDREDS AROUND THE UNITED STATES NEAR BIG CITIES AND MILITARY CONTRACTORS LIKE AVIATION AND WEAPON PLANTS, THEY SPROUTED UP AND THEIR WAS NO ASKING THE COMMUNITIES NEAR THEM IF THEY MINDED, THEY JUST HAD TO DEAL WITH THE NEW NEIGHBORS WITH LOUD MACHINES AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THESE ADS RAN DURING THE LATE 50s EARLY 60s AND THEN DISAPPEARED.,AND JUST LIKE THE PROPAGANDA THE  AIR FORCE ADC BASES STARTED CLOSING AROUND THE COUNTRY AS ICBMS WERE THE NEW PROTECTOR AND THE BASES ATE UP FUNDING THEY NEEDED FOR THE WAR IN VIETNAM, BY THE EARLY 70s ADC BASES WERE SOLD AS AIRPORTS OR GIVEN TO NATIONAL GUARD UNITS ENDING THE BOMBER INTERCEPTOR WINGS, SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB CLOSED IN THE WINTER OF 68' AND THE NATL GUARD TOOK OVER AND FINALLY THE 106th AEROSPACE/COMBAT RESCUE WING SETTLED IN, THESE AIRMEN RESCUE CIVILIANS OUT AT SEA WHEN NEEDED AND STANDBY WHEN SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS ARE LAUNCHED TO RECOVER ASTRONAUTS THEY ALSO ROTATE AND DO DOWNED PILOTS IN IRAQ,AFGHANISTAN,SOMALIA ECT.... AND THE ADC MISSION AT SUFFOLK IS HONORED BY THE CURRENT AIRMEN. THEY TOOK A ADC F-102 AND MOUNTED IT IN A TAKEOFF POSITION AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE SO THE USAF AIRMEN OF SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB WHO FOUGHT THE COLDWAR ARE NOT FORGOTTEN..

EARLY PHOTO OF F-102 DELTA DAGGER  PILOTS SCRAMBLE AT THE SOUND OF THE ALERT SIREN AND LEAVE THE ALERT QUARTERS AT A DEAD RUN TO GET AIRBORNE AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB 1950s THE ALERT AIRCRAFT WERE LEFT WARMED UP OR IDLEING AND READY TO GO NEVER KNOWING IF THE ALERT IS A ATTACK BY SOVIET BOMBERS HEADING TO US CITIES WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO LEVEL THEM,

THE FACT THIS TRAINING TOOL WAS TO KEEP THE PILOT FROM BEING BLINDED BY THE FLASH OF THE AIR TO AIR ROCKET DETONATING AND ALSO HAD PILOTS TAKE EVASIVE ACTION TO AVOID BEING DOSED WITH RADIATION AS THEIR ROCKETS WARHEAD FINDS ITS MARK AND VAPORIZES THE ENEMY BOMBER IN A BLINDING FLASH,

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