F-111 in Action
F-111 in Action (Aircraft 35) By Lou Drendel
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 1978 | 50 Pages | ISBN: 0897470834 | PDF | 8 MB
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 1978 | 50 Pages | ISBN: 0897470834 | PDF | 8 MB
So much has been written about the F-111 during it's career that it will be all but impossible to come up with anything new or startling. Ironically, the great preponderance of what has been written has been favorable, and yet most people on the fringes of the professional aviation community still regard the F-111 with the suspicion that it has been a costly mistake. There is no question about the fact that the F-111 is an expensive piece of machinery. But a mistake it is not. In fact, the Air Force has. in the F-111. exactly what it originally wanted, which is an airplane that can do all the things the F-105 could do. (which is to deliver bombs on targets deep within enemy territory by flying very fast and low enough to get under enemy radar) but with more range, accuracy, and off of airfields less than half the size required for the Thud.