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09-16-2007, 04:00 PM
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| Great F-111 footage... relax and enjoy! good music too: note the internal gun YouTube - GD F-111 Aardvark Vietnam-era Swing Wing Strike Fighter . Last edited by comiso90; 09-16-2007 at 04:26 PM. |
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09-16-2007, 07:02 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | Very cool! The gun was removed in later models because they would shoot out their own nose gear in a dive.
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09-16-2007, 08:01 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | Nice clip!
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09-17-2007, 12:05 PM
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09-17-2007, 04:53 PM
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| Great video. Never had seen the aerospike operate before. Quite the complex design!!
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09-17-2007, 11:54 PM
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| This has never been a hugely popular bird and I really didn't know all that much about it until reading up on it now. It sure looks good from the front with the round intakes, though. What a cool plane! I recall a story from a different thread where a few Aardvarks were in formation on an exercise and some pesky F-16's came up to tail them. One of the F-111 pilots initiated that cool fuel-dump that they do. The F-16's pissed themselves and ran away.
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09-21-2007, 12:23 AM
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| Perhaps...
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