King of the skies?

BravoHotel

BravoHotel

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With out a doubt we know who the Queen of the skies is, the 747.

What is the King of the skies? A google search reveals a kids book. While the same search of queen of the skies reveals the 747.
 
RDoug said:
When it first came out, the F-111 was, "McNamara's Second Edsel."
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Growing pains it indeed had. But cool thing is, it did morph into our best night, all-weather, deep-strike interdiction fighter-bomber for many years. You were around the F models at LN right (or had they not converted from F-4s yet)? A fine ECM platform (would've been nice to have a shooting capability), and light nuke-strike SAC bomber replacement for the B-58 too.

But yeah....a rough start in life definitely.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was considered the most successful of our aircraft in Desert Storm, with all it did. And when it went back to Vietnam in '72 after it's rough start years earlier, the North Viets hated it.
 
I was indeed at LN during the F-111F era. Indeed, I was there for the transition from the F-4D to the F-111F. Fine aircraft by that time (1977), but it sure was a piece of junk before they got the bugs worked out of it. The F-111 dropped more ordinance during Desert Storm than all other aircraft combined, if I recall correctly, and the LN F-111F was used to bomb Libya in 1986.
 
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RDoug said:
I was indeed at LN during the F-111F era. Indeed, I was there for the transition from the F-4D to the F-111F. Fine aircraft by that time (1977), but it sure was a piece of junk before they got the bugs worked out of it. The F-111 dropped more ordinance during Desert Storm than all other aircraft combined, if I recall correctly, and the LN F-111F was used to bomb Libya in 1986.
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I was at UH as a kid, my dad was 79th TFS Intel Guy. I loved that airplane, so loud.
 
MikeD said:
Growing pains it indeed had. But cool thing is, it did morph into our best night, all-weather, deep-strike interdiction fighter-bomber for many years. You were around the F models at LN right (or had they not converted from F-4s yet)? A fine ECM platform (would've been nice to have a shooting capability), and light nuke-strike SAC bomber replacement for the B-58 too.

But yeah....a rough start in life definitely.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was considered the most successful of our aircraft in Desert Storm, with all it did. And when it went back to Vietnam in '72 after it's rough start years earlier, the North Viets hated it.
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The B-17 almost lost the flyoff for the AAC in the 30s. Imagine where we would have been in the 40s if that happened. Fate is the Hunter.
 
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