F-94 Tribute

RE: F-94 Tribute

A330, sorry I missed your post. I’ll have to look into that one.

Ant, thanks for your comments, and here are a few answers to your questions. There were three models of the F-94. The F-94A and F-94B had no official name. The F-94C was named officially the Starfire so you are are correct in that sense.

Regarding the nose profiles, you are also correct. With each model, the radar set got better, and the F-94C had, by far the best avionics set. The F-94A/B and idenfitied by the four 12.7-mm guns in the nose and the F-94C is identified by a lack of guns and four pop-open doors with rockets in them. The F-94C also has mid-wing pods for additional rockets. The nose on the F-94C was rounded originally and later with advances to the electronics, the nose profile became a bit more pointed.

The F-94A was armed with four 12.7-mm guns, and had wingtip tanks of 165-gallon teardrop shape initially. This was later changed to the larger 230-gallon wingtip tanks.

The F-94B was armed with four 12.7-mm guns, and had the 230-gallon wingtip tanks. Later on, some F-94B’s were fitted with a pod in the middle of each wing that contained an additional four 12.7-mm guns (two guns in each pod) for additional firepower.

Te F-94C was armed with 24x 2.75-inch (70-mm) Mighty Mouse FFAR’s (Folding Fin Aerial Rockets) with six rockets each in four doors around the nose, just aft of the radome. The 230-gallon wingtip tanks were fitted as standard, and later in its service life, the F-94C was fitted with two wingtip pods, each containing an additional 12 rockets, for a grand total of 48 70-mm rockets, which is quite a great deal of firepower. I’ve seen a few photos of an F-94C at a museum that had a hardpoint under each wing and on each hardpoint was an additional 230-gallon fuel tank. I’m not sure if these hardpoints were applied only to the F-94C, or if the A/B models could carry them or if any other stores could be fitted onto the hardpoints. Then again, it could possibly be that someone just thought it would look neat to add them to a museum piece. Who knows?

Also, regarding, the F-94’s combat record, the F-94A/B models went to war in Korea and were used alongside U.S. Navy and Marine Corps F3D Skynights in the night fighter role. The F-94 performed well and scored many kills, which included the slow-flying Po-2 (Bedcheck Charlie) aircraft, the piston-engined La-9, and even the jet-powered MiG-15. I’m sure they encountered other aircraft as well.

RE: F-94 Tribute

Hi Phantom,
Some good pics,thanks for posting them. Am I right in thinking that only the later rocket-armed versions were named Starfire? I read something recently about F94 nightfighters in Korea.I was surprised to learn that one of these actually shot down a Po-2 (or even more than one?) on a night time interception.Must’ve been a pretty well harmonised crew to pull that off!
I notice the aircraft in the pictures have varying nose profiles-how many differnt types of radar set did the type use??

RE: F-94 Tribute

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-09-02 AT 09:52 PM (GMT)]Thats Ok Phantom. 🙂

Its the same with the post that I did yesterday on the tribute to the Constellations, no has commented on that, I though someone may have done since there has been so much talk about them lately, but oh well? 🙂

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Thanks A330. I’m glad at least one person appreciates this beautiful airplane.

I wonder if this thread was about the F-86 if it would have gotten more attention….

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-09-02 AT 10:34 PM (GMT)]Again, some nice pictures PII. 🙂