General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark write by Don Logan. This book was released on 1998. General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a pictorial history of the F-111, the greatest jet fighter-bomber ever built, and includes 740 color photos covering all models from the F-111A through the F-111K. In addition to a "Roll Call" including histories of each individual aircraft, photos of over 90% of the aircraft are included. Nose art of the FB-111A is covered with 48 photos. Book chapters include; Program History, Aircraft System Description, USAF Tactical F-111s, Strategic FB-111s, U.S. Navy F-111Bs, Royal Australian Air Force F- 111s, British Royal Air Force F-111Ks, F-111 Combat Operations, and NASA F-111s. One Hundred and twenty Unit and Campaign patches are included, along with appendices on External Differences, Avionics Systems, F-111 Specifications, a Unit and Tail Code Summary, Attrited Aircraft, and a list of the 113 Aircrew members who died flying the F-111.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark write by Peter E. Davies. This book was released on 2013-10-20. General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite its uncertain start the F-111 proved to be one of the most successful and influential designs of the 1960s. Its radical 'swing wing' was adopted by the F-14 Tomcat, Panavia Tornado and Rockwell B-1B Lancer while its turbofan-type engines became standard in many combat aircraft. F-111 crews pioneered tactics using terrain-following and laser targeting devices that made the F-15E Eagle's missions possible. Its 4,000 low-altitude penetration missions during Operation Linebacker in Vietnam showed how individual aircraft can deliver crippling blows to enemy capability without loss to themselves. The recent retirement of the F-111 from Australian service appears to have created a surge of interest in the type, which hasn't been featured in previous Osprey works.
General Dynamics F-111 'Aardvark'
General Dynamics F-111 'Aardvark' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Dynamics F-111 'Aardvark' write by AM Thornborough. This book was released on 2010-07-29. General Dynamics F-111 'Aardvark' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The iconic General Dynamics F-111 'Aardvark' - a medium range interdictor, tactical strike, strategic bomber, reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft - was one of the more controversial jets ever to fly. Yet despite its inauspicious beginnings it became a highly effective 'under the radar' bomber. As a result of a poorly planned development specification, both the Navy and Air Force were committed, much against their will, to a Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) program which called for a single aircraft - the F-111 to fulfill both a Navy fleet-defense interceptor requirement and an Air Force supersonic strike aircraft requirement. This was impossible to achieve, especially since planners placed priority upon the Air Force requirement, and then tried to tailor this heavy aircraft to the constraints of carrier-based naval operations. The abortive naval aircraft, the F-111B, was never placed in production, whilst the Air Force aircraft, which was produced in a variety of models, had numerous problems, and only the F-111F actually fulfilled the original TFX design specification. This was less the fault of General Dynamics than that of thecivilian planners in the Pentagon whose 'cost effective' inclinations produced the major aeronautical fiasco of the 1960s - and a costly one at that. Acclaimed author Anthony M Thornborough brings the entire F-111 story into one Datafile, looking in depth at all of the variants of the F-111, its difficult birth, its poor combat debut in the Vietnam War, and its final maturity into a potent weapons delivery system. This new work will include hitherto unpublished photographs, technical diagrams and color profiles, which tell the whole story of this incredible machine.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark write by Miller. This book was released on . General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark write by Peter E. Davies. This book was released on 2013-10-20. General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite its uncertain start the F-111 proved to be one of the most successful and influential designs of the 1960s. Its radical 'swing wing' was adopted by the F-14 Tomcat, Panavia Tornado and Rockwell B-1B Lancer while its turbofan-type engines became standard in many combat aircraft. F-111 crews pioneered tactics using terrain-following and laser targeting devices that made the F-15E Eagle's missions possible. Its 4,000 low-altitude penetration missions during Operation Linebacker in Vietnam showed how individual aircraft can deliver crippling blows to enemy capability without loss to themselves. The recent retirement of the F-111 from Australian service appears to have created a surge of interest in the type, which hasn't been featured in previous Osprey works.
