The Aardvark is a funny-looking beast with a long snout that hoovers up food with a pig-like body and thick hide to stymie ...

Introduced in 1964, the F-111 featured innovative technologies such as sweep-wing design, afterburners on turbofan engines, and terrain-following guidance systems. -Despite initial setbacks during ...

The F-111B was designed to defend the fleet, but only one landed aboard an aircraft carrier, the Coral Sea, in 1968, after the program was cancelled. The controversy swirling around the F-35 joint ...

This game-changing function, coupled with the platform’s variable-sweep wing configuration which would become the norm down the line, made the F-111 a memorable aircraft. Upon the ...

In the 1960s, U.S. Navy strategists wanted an aircraft that could efficiently cruise at subsonic speed, maneuver well in high-subsonic dogfights, accelerate to above Mach 2, and yet remain stable ...

including the weapons system and the variable-sweep wing configuration. This was considered to be essential based on experiences with the F-111 and its very complex electromechanical flight ...