Just to mention one example amongst many, the F-111 " Aardvark " is designated F, while having only minimal air-to-air capabilities.

The choice of the F / A-18 deployment rather than of the F-111 tactical bomber may have been due to the higher cost of operation of the F-111, and its use being limited to more politically contentious ground attack missions rather than more uncontentious tasks like combat air patrols.

* April 14 – 15 ( overnight ) – 18 United States Air Force F-111Fs of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing and a United States Navy force of 15 A-6E Intruders, six A-7E Corsair IIs, and six F / A-18 Hornets from the aircraft carriers,, and attack Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon, with the loss of one F-111 and its two-man crew.

In this mode, it features a basic fuselage similar to the real-world F-14 Tomcat jet fighter, including underslung intakes and variable-sweep wing, but with outward-canted vertical stabilizers similar to the F / A-18 Hornet's, swiveling under-wing hardpoints ( last seen on the F-111 Aardvark, Su-24 Fencer, and Panavia Tornado ), and a total lack of tailplanes.

Between 1981 and 1986, Gregory served as an operational fighter pilot flying the D and F models of the F-111.

These units are responsible for converting aircrew to the F / A-18 Hornet, F-111 and P-3C Orion aircraft respectively.

The Air Force, supposedly because of unpopularity of battlefield attacks in its ranks, has even assigned the F designation to attack-only aircraft, such as the F-111 Aardvark and F-117 Nighthawk.

Planning was performed including high intensity air strikes with General Dynamics F-111, A-6 Intruder, F-15E Strike Eagle, F / A-18 Hornet, AV-8 Harrier, A-10 Thunderbolt II, and F-16 Falcon crews.

* Date Deployed: December 1994 ( F-111 F )

Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow

# REDIRECT General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

# REDIRECT General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

# REDIRECT General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

# REDIRECT General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

# REDIRECT General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

# REDIRECT General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

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# REDIRECT General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark # FB-111A / F-111G

The 27th TFW was the third TAC Wing to receive the F-111, the first squadron to receive the aircraft was the 481st TFS, receiving its first F-111E aircraft on 30 September 1969.

430th TFS F-111 67-0113

Transmitters were surplus AN / APX-25 IFF transponders and data processing was accomplished using surplus IBM 4piTC-2 computers that were obtained from the F-111 terrain avoidance program.

In 1995, the face of the flightline changed when the wing began its transition from the F-111 to General Dynamics F-16C / D aircraft.

" General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark / EF-111 Raven ".

Cessna T-37 aircraft were also added to the IUNT curriculum in the late 1970s for those USAF students destined for high performance aircraft such as the F-4 / RF-4, F-111 / FB-111 and B-1.

A 48th Fighter Wing | 48th TFW General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark | F-111F in 1982, equipped with a Pave Tack and GBU-10 | GBU-10s.

The 20th TFW participated in F-111 NATO and US unilateral operations Shabaz, Display Determination, Cold Fire, Ocean Safari, Datex, Priory, Reforger, Dawn Patrol, Highwood, Hammer, and others from January 1972 to October 1993.

From September 1992 to July 1993, 27th FW F-111 aircrews and support personnel rotated to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in support of Operation PROVIDE COMFORT.

By September 1979, the wing had flown the highest number of hours ever recorded in a fiscal year by an F-111 unit.

Lt. Col. White then was transferred to Air Force Systems Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as chief of the Tactical Systems Office, F-111 Systems Program Office, where he served from September 1966 to May 1967.

Upon graduation in 1972, he became an Air Force test pilot, logging thousands of hours of flight time in dozens of aircraft, including the Boeing 747, the experimental X-24B lifting body, the F-111 Aardvark, and the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.

This system was used successfully in two military projects: field test systems used to check the electronics of the Air Force General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter plane and systems used to control the countdown and launch of the Army's Pershing missile.

A number of aircraft, such as the F-111 and F-117, had no fighter capability despite carrying the designation but did so for political reasons.

The F-111 was originally intended for a fighter role with the Navy, but this variant was cancelled.

* Variable-sweep wing or " swing wings " that allow outstretched wings during low-speed flight ( i. e., take-off and landing ) and swept back wings for high-speed flight ( including supersonic flight ), such as in the F-111 Aardvark, the F-14 Tomcat, the Panavia Tornado, the MiG-23 the MiG-27, and the B-1B Lancer warplanes

In late August 1989, while working as an engineer on the jack-up barge GSF Galveston Key in the North Sea, Chris Gibson and another witness saw an unfamiliar isosceles triangle-shaped delta aircraft, apparently refueling from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and accompanied by a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers.

He dismissed suggestions that the aircraft was an F-117, Mirage IV or fully swept wing F-111.

Pratt & Whitney military engines include the F135 for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ), the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the J52 for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powering E-3 AWACS, E-8 Joint STARS, B-52, and KC-135 aircraft, and the TF30 for the F-111.

The F-111 first flew in December 1964.

Grumman went on to build the F-14 Tomcat, an aircraft that used many of the innovations of the F-111, but designed solely as a carrier-borne fighter.

GD, whose F-111 program was winding down, desperately needed a new aircraft contract.

Various previously-designated models from the pre-1962 Army-Air Force system ( such as the F-111 ) were not redesignated.

McNamara tried to extend his success by merging development programs as well, resulting in the TFX dual service F-111 project.

The F-111 would eventually find its niche as a tactical bomber and electronic warfare aircraft with the Air Force.

The 474th was the first USAF F-111A Wing to receive the F-111.

The " G " model was a conversion of the former SAC FB-111A all-weather strategic bombing version of the F-111, which was originally intended as an interim successor to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and Convair B-58 Hustler.

On 1 August 1992, a fifth operational F-111 squadron was added to the 27th FW in conjunction with the realignment of all EF-111A Raven Electronic Warfare aircraft from Mountain Home AFB to Cannon.

The F-111 in various forms had been at Cannon AFB for 29 years.

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He worked in test flight programs and systems security engineering for the F-84, F-100, F-105, F-111, EC-121T, T-33, T-39, T-28, and A-1.