Key Points and Summary - The F-111B was the Navy’s carrier variant of the TFX concept, aiming to share a common airframe with the Air Force’s F-111. -On paper it offered advanced avionics, ...

In the 1960s, the U.S. military tried to solve two problems with one aircraft. Then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara pushed the Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) program, hoping to create a ...

The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force decided to keep the classic F-111 Aardvark all the way until 2010, yet the US Air Force retired the aircraft in the 1990s, a nearly 20-year disparity which raises ...

On November 21, 2011, convoys of trucks arrived at a landfill in Queensland, Australia. Their cargo was extraordinary: 23 dismantled F-111 bombers, once among the most advanced aircraft in the world.

The F-111, with its variable sweep wing, terrain following radar, military-rated afterburning turbofan engines and self-contained escape module, was one of the most technically innovative designs seen ...