General Dynamics / Grumman F-111B

[pathology_doc]

The real pity, rereading this post now, is that the Spangenberg site is no longer functional. I don't like piracy per se, but this is one of those times I hope someone kept a digital resource of the whole thing that they could repost.

Fortunately, this very site has it covered:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/george-spangenbergs-oral-history-tfx-vfax-nacf-etc.114/#post-20895

The PDFs aren't quite as convenient to navigate as the website, but it's all there.

Bless!

 

[Caravellarella]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxDV9y5Is64

 

[Justo Miranda]

Old models

Hasegwa 1/72 F-111B Conversion by Bill Gilman

 

[thefrecklepuny]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxDV9y5Is64

Given the sheer size of the F-111B, it's interesting they used Coral Sea and not something larger in the Forrestal class. I wonder why that may have been?

 

[isayyo2]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxDV9y5Is64

Given the sheer size of the F-111B, it's interesting they used Coral Sea and not something larger in the Forrestal class. I wonder why that may have been?

I believe it was during a work-up period before their 9/7/68 - 4/18/69 WestPac/Vietnam deployment.

 

[uk 75]

CVA01 was designed to operate large heavy VG aircraft and the designers must have been aware of the F111B.
For modellers the addition of F111B to a CVA01 airgroup is attractive.

 

[GTX]

CVA01 was designed to operate large heavy VG aircraft and the designers must have been aware of the F111B.
For modellers the addition of F111B to a CVA01 airgroup is attractive.

For pure fiction see here:

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beyondthesprues.com

 

[robunos]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxDV9y5Is64

Given the sheer size of the F-111B, it's interesting they used Coral Sea and not something larger in the Forrestal class. I wonder why that may have been?

I believe it was during a work-up period before their 9/7/68 - 4/18/69 WestPac/Vietnam deployment.

I think the insinuation is that the Navy chose an unsuitable ship for the trials, as they wanted the trials to fail, because they did not want the F-111B . . .

cheers,
Robin.

 

[uk 75]

CVA01 was designed to operate large heavy VG aircraft and the designers must have been aware of the F111B.
For modellers the addition of F111B to a CVA01 airgroup is attractive.

For pure fiction see here:

GREATER AUSTRALIA

GREATER AUSTRALIA

beyondthesprues.com

I have just finished this and made a copy for my private use. I have no had so much Oz fun since Prisoner Cell Block H hooked my late parents years ago. As for the artwork do you remember Jenny Agutter in WALKABOUT.

 

[RAP]

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[RAP]

F-111B components.

 

[BlackBat242]

I have just finished this and made a copy for my private use. I have no had so much Oz fun since Prisoner Cell Block H hooked my late parents years ago. As for the artwork do you remember Jenny Agutter in WALKABOUT.

My only issue is.... just how many service psychiatrists would be required in the OCD Force?

 

[Archibald]

For pure fiction see here:

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Reads like an earlier and flying AUKUS...

 

[JFC Fuller]

From testimony to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, March 1970, a detailed list of changes proposed as part of the CWIP-III study and the performance that was expected from that configuration. Also included is a memorandum with brief descriptions of other configurations designated A, C, E, X and Y.