TV has become completely useless the last 20 years, so I have to dig around and find things like this to have something decent to watch when I feel like relaxing. Thank you for makin this available.
That's why my TV here in France is only linked to my ps3, ps4 pro and digital ps5 with RU-vid, Sports Canal application and games. It's been 13 years i stop watching TV Bullshits and propaganda 😅
I remember seeing two out of Williamtown, fly over the lake so low, they left a wake. Hit us with a big blast of heat as they pulled up over the shoreline. Awesome aircraft
Love watching all these documentaries, brings back memories of living at Mildenhall, school at Lakenheath and an absolutely brilliant time living in England. Miss the F111, incredible aircraft!
I remember seeing the Upper Heyford contingent of the Libyan mission taking off on that April evening in 1986. You could tell something serious was going on as we had never seen so many planes in the air, even after living under the fly path for 10 years!
My father worked for Texas Instruments and was on the team that designed and built the solid state electronics for the terrain following guidance system
My unit was the 474th TFW Roadrunners. Out of Nellis AFB. I was weapons release then, and primarily I was trained by my local shop senior NCO as a troubleshooter. Wire chaser. When the bugz were cleaned up, it was a great aircraft 👍
Excellent introducing documentary coverage video about F-111 Aardvark aircraft's.....during 2nd Gulf war participated on assaults against Baghdad at 1991 successfully . US aviation efforts are insisting to having best ,perfect airplanes ✈️...Mike Guardia channel always selecting Excellent subjects..allot thanks for sharing 👍🏻 😀 👏🏻 😊
Well the Tomcat and the F111 are closely related, if it weren't for the F111B being such a poor suit for the Navy, tomcat would neverh have been made.. too bad they screwed the Tomcat and comissioned it with the poorly suited TF30's it got from F111 program
The 111 is one of my favorite forgotten fighter jets.. It's to bad they decommissioned them.. They were every bit as good in most all ways as a 15 was...
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Awesome plane. @31:47 the drop tanks are not on the pivoting pylons. I've never seen that before. I guess they will have to be dropped prior to the wings being swept.
During Southern Watch we midair refueled some fully loaded F111s' over the gulf. A little while later we refueled the same group....they werent fully loaded anymore...
The TFX-F111 program was a huge failure. The F111B for the Navy was scrapped due it not having enough thrust to land on Aircraft Carriers and the F111 for the Air Force was reduced to ground roles only due to the fact it couldn’t manoeuvre against the smaller lighter fighters.
@@davidbrooks7806 The F - designation means Fighter . The F111 was meant to be a Multi Role Fighter. However it was reduced for ground roles only because it was to Big and heavy to be a Dogfighter
Anybody knows where to find the documentary series 'Vertical' from the Discovery channel (1999?). The best history of VTOL aircraft ever shown. It had lots of Aero Engineering detailed info, rare to find in popular videos
This Aircraft was never regarded as a fighter and never had it seen seen one on one combat given its weight and limited manouverability. It was primarily a demonstrator that only saw limited use in the ground attack role. It could be described as a test bed for the development of Reagan's B1B Bomber.
F-111FB were deployed to Southeast Asia and flew hundreds of night time combat missions hitting targets in and arpund Hanoi from June 1972 through Dedember 1972. It was the only aircraft to ever be included into the SALT agreement (nuclear arsenals etc treaty between the Soviet Union and the U.S.) due to the TFR (terrain following radar) technology. The north vietnamese military name the F-111 "Whispeing death" as the bombs detonated before the aircraft could be heard. The mission most likely assisted in facilitating the Paris Peace negotiations to end the war. In the Moscow Vietnam War museum an F-1111 ejection capsule is displayed. On the left side of the cockpit is the name of Maj. D.E. Primas. My father was an F-111 Navigator bombardier WSO who was NOT flying that night. (We were stationed at Nelllis AFB after being transferred from Little Rock Arkansas where he flew B-58s SAC.) The F-111FB was a ground breaking, no pun intended, aircraft paving the way for future aircraft such as the B-1B and the B-21 as you've stated. F-14s design a direct result as well. Good men were lost in 1972 including a young Capt WSO Alan Graham. He was one of our league baseball coaches and his name is on the Vietnam War Wall. ... stories from a USAF officers son
You'd think they would've learned. The F-35 program, while ultimately successful, was orders of magnitude more expensive and further behind while making all the same mistakes plus dozens more of its own.
They are complicated bits of kit, requiring research into technology solutions that only exist in the future, have to have an 'open-ish' architecture approach again for major life-cycle upgrades well into the future, for decades to come, again with tech that doesn't currently exist, and in the 35's case, with 3 variants to accommodate STOVL ups and downs, I'm surprised they actually got it built. Probably would of been better to make 2 different aircraft, Harrier replacement and multi-role FA. Who knows, but think they did a remarkable job, the technical types (ppl) cheers. PS - they continue to be the best fighting force in the world, about the only 1 that is minute-man ready 24/7/365, with carrier groups about the place. I wonder how much longer that will be the case and how they intend to afford it. As for their philosophy, who knows, still as i said about the military that's ready and largely competent regardless of the threat.
These things put a shackling on tanks. In the 1991 Gulf War...I bet they destroyed 300+ in two weeks..It got so bad. The Iraq crew would camp 500 yards away at night from their tanks...
Hey I love this stuff but wouldnt it have been better if all those engineers, scientists and other very clever people had been employed with solving poverty. Lets give every child a real chance in life and stop wasting money on this pointless crap. America does not need shit like this to defend America. Think about the wasted billions of Dollars and its still happening today 2022.
If America didn't spend the money that it does coming up with all the great things are military has and can do you would be speaking German or Japanese.
If you think the United States would be in existence for even one second without its Army and Navy and Air Force, and all the equipment they have, you are even more moronic than you sound. That old "can't we all just get along" crap didn't work in the 60's... and it sure as hell don't work now.
"Robert McNamara was PRAGMATIST?!? Insisting on a COMINALITY?!?" Well at least they have their journalist integrity. McNamara cared about the planes as much as inmates care about the state. He saw an opportunity to take some MONEY and took it! It's over 50 years since that happened-stop covering for him.
@@DAVYMAC Wrong in what way? Like, what exactly in my statement does not "hold the water"? Dude, buddy, you're defending one of the "persons" most deserving for Kennedy's assassination. That literally INVENTED war in Vietnam and prolonged it as much as he could, even thou he KNEW from the start he couldn't win it. Even pushed the use of BIOLOGICAL weapons in it on the STRATEGIC scale. Believe me, history will not be kind to that guy.
