29 September 2014

Fuck You Robert Strange MacNamara

F-111B on downwind.

"There is not enough thrust in all Christendom to make a fighter out of that airplane."  Adm Tom Connolly.

It's not as bad as all that, but it's still a pig.  I've yet to successfully bring it back aboard the boat.  It just will not bleed off airspeed, and I suspect the model has the hook done wrong and it's not catching the wires.
Posted by Angus McThag at 16:37
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  1. Sendarius01 October, 2014 08:29

    It made a hell of a high-speed, low-level penetrator though, didn't it?

    I've read lots of stories of the RAAF flying them at extreme low-level, "hard-hard" terrain following during various war-games, and doing a mighty fine job.

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  2. Angus McThag02 October, 2014 12:08

    The Air Force got the plane they were after from the beginning. The Aussies' F-111C is what they "settled" for after the TSR.2 was cancelled; and was exactly what they wanted as well.

    The F-111B the other hand... Not what the Navy asked for at all.

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