On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:41:15 GMT, Guy Alcala
wrote:

25 QRC-160-1s (which eventually became the ALQ-71) were then sent back to
SEA, presumably modified/redesigned to eliminate the problems mentioned
above, with the first flights on 26 September 1966 on F-105s. These proved
successful,

Pod formation though this time around right?

so presumably the RF-101s would have received them shortly
afterwards and certainly no later than 1967, although if they already had
ALQ-51s the need would not be as critical for them as for the wholly
unprotected (up until then) F-105s and then F-4s.

Did the RF-101s ever fly ALQ-71s? One plane one or maybe two jammers
going like mad across the sky sticking out like a sore thumb on radar?
Then there is the speed maybe killing the rats.

Maybe it was g's and speed that killed the rats on F-4s at Ubon in
1967? Bearings melted into little lumps of metal. The aircraft power
mod saved the day there. Before they got the dummy nose cone line
going good we were flying pods off AC power with frozen rats...