Tactical Fighter Experimental

USAF pilot recalls the night’s mission where the terrain-following radar of several F-111 attack aircraft failed to work

USAF pilot recalls the night’s mission where the terrain-following radar of several F-111 attack aircraft failed to work

‘Everyone knew that they had just lost two friends, whose F-111 terrain-following radar system had failed,’ Ron Wagner, former USAF… Read More

12 months ago

“There isn’t enough thrust in all Christendom to make a Navy fighter out of that airplane:” how F-111B’s death led to the birth of the iconic F-14 Tomcat

A comparison study between the F-14 (then Grumman's concept of a new fighter), the F-111B and a couple of other… Read More

6 years ago