Now that brings back some memories. As a back shop avionics tech, I have worked on all those LRU's. There were a few errors in the video though. Mixing up the ARS and TFR mostly. The command bars are for the TFR system. Also the LARA was used over water as it gave a more correct altitude.
The Navys AN/SPS 10 surface search radar had many of the same controls. A analog radar that was discontinued since the 55 is digital and works better with AEGIS. it may still be installed on older supply and auxiliary ships
I know quite a few people don’t rate the F-111 as a good aircraft, in my opinion they are wrong, for an aircraft that was so advanced for its time it was exceptional, put aside its in service problems and forget everything except the aesthetics and you have a stunning visual aircraft, if battles were won on looks then the USA would win every time, and not just for the F-111, America in my opinion have produced the best looking and effective aircraft for many decades now. Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧
When I first started watching this I thought wow this is corny. But then I thought wow this is interesting because I used to want to be an Air Force pilot and might have been assigned to an F-111.
For a long time they required 1000 hours fighter jet experience to be able to fly this aircraft. It's intensive and super dangerous. It could fly right into the ground if you weren't careful.
I think a bunch of the losses during its debut deployment in Vietnam were “disappearances” I.e. they probably flew into terrain in the triple canopy jungle limestone karst regions of SE Asia in the dark and probably crappy WX conditions. Easy to get behind the curve in an aircraft that complicated and ridiculously fast at very low altitude. The coffin corner is microscopic at 500 knots and 200 feet altitude.
@@jeraldsamuel5598 yes it did. In 1968 F-111 were sent to Vietnam with bad wings and the Terrain Following Radar TFR, was bad. In 1972 wings repaired along with TRF updated as other problems fixed. It was a terrific plane. Very fast
Somewhere there is a doding father who gave his one only son a Koenigsegg Jasko for his 17th birthday . To celebrate young man's unrestricted driver's license. Few days later the young man wrapped his Koenigsegg around a tree , with him and his hot girlfriend in it. Not even the carbon fiber safety cabin could save the pair. Lesson is. High performance requires high skill. High skill comes from experience and good judgement.
@@i-..--..--..-i6985Aircraft Crew priorities during combat. As trained by USAF, RAF, French Air Force, and major NATO Allies. 1. Fly the aircraft 2. Navigate the aircraft. 3. Manage expendable resources (fuel, crew fatigue) and communications. 4. Defend the aircraft. 5. Offensively fight the aircraft . I.E. the mission objective . Always be evaluating WIN priorities. What's Important Now. Note that shooting missiles , dropping bombs, going guns , comes last.
@@davenone7312 yes very loud when the wing broke. At GDFW we tested the static F-16 in the fixture at room temperature and it broke at 147% of ultimate load. That was loud. They pumped the room with the entire airplane in it down to -40 while pulling 6 gs i think .
Strike! The real Air Force. Everything else is a suppourt mission! InFlight Refuel . Suppourt mission HICAP . Suppourt mission Escort. Suppourt Mission Offensive Counter Air. Support mission Defensive Counter Air. Support mission. SEAD. Suppourt mission JTAC/TACP- Suppourt mission
@@KirkHermary In a certain 5 sided ringed office building with its own ZIP and APO code, in overpriced Arlington, Va, . Yes it is . The more inner the ring , the more chair force is there. Then again not every zoomie can be Roger Ramjet. There is a need for Major Ayehowl, Colonel Sanders, and Gen. Brassbottom to enable and fund the supply chain, USO show, timely pay, orders, and forests of paperwork.
What are you comparing that platform to? That was early 1960's technology, pretty shit hot if you ask me and I maintained those systems for 20 years on FB, A, F and E model aircraft. No other attack aircraft could do what the F111 could do as fast and as low in any weather with the bomb load it could carry. Spelling errors and ignorance don't lend credibility to you argument.
@@ek8710 That was the area where the wing attaches to the fuselage. They cracked due to heavy stresses put on them. The cost was way too high to replace them throughout the fleet. We stopped depot modifications right in the middle of production. In came flat bed trucks and started hauling them off. It was a sad day for the McClellan AFB F-111 workers for sure.
I used to draw radar predictions for F111 crews as a target intel guy.
This is so cool😮
Now that brings back some memories. As a back shop avionics tech, I have worked on all those LRU's. There were a few errors in the video though. Mixing up the ARS and TFR mostly. The command bars are for the TFR system. Also the LARA was used over water as it gave a more correct altitude.
This was made by General Dynamics. I believe for training pilots ...
Great aircraft
Awesome vid.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
The Navys AN/SPS 10 surface search radar had many of the same controls. A analog radar that was discontinued since the 55 is digital and works better with AEGIS. it may still be installed on older supply and auxiliary ships
I know quite a few people don’t rate the F-111 as a good aircraft, in my opinion they are wrong, for an aircraft that was so advanced for its time it was exceptional, put aside its in service problems and forget everything except the aesthetics and you have a stunning visual aircraft, if battles were won on looks then the USA would win every time, and not just for the F-111, America in my opinion have produced the best looking and effective aircraft for many decades now. Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧
AS A NUCK BOMBER THE F-111 WAS SO FEARED BY THE SOVIETS THAT THEY INSISTED THAT THEIR
NUMBERS BE COUNTED AS PART OF ANY S.A.L.T. TREATIES!!!!!!!!!!
It was a clear threat to Russian targets in Germany. It was made to do one thing. Fly below radar and bomb
When I first started watching this I thought wow this is corny. But then I thought wow this is interesting because I used to want to be an Air Force pilot and might have been assigned to an F-111.
For a long time they required 1000 hours fighter jet experience to be able to fly this aircraft. It's intensive and super dangerous. It could fly right into the ground if you weren't careful.
I think a bunch of the losses during its debut deployment in Vietnam were “disappearances” I.e. they probably flew into terrain in the triple canopy jungle limestone karst regions of SE Asia in the dark and probably crappy WX conditions. Easy to get behind the curve in an aircraft that complicated and ridiculously fast at very low altitude. The coffin corner is microscopic at 500 knots and 200 feet altitude.
I thought this aircraft had some sort of terrain following radar, so how the heck could it be easily flown into the ground???
@@jeraldsamuel5598 yes it did. In 1968 F-111 were sent to Vietnam with bad wings and the Terrain Following Radar TFR, was bad. In 1972 wings repaired along with TRF updated as other problems fixed. It was a terrific plane. Very fast
Somewhere there is a doding father who gave his one only son a Koenigsegg Jasko for his 17th birthday . To celebrate young man's unrestricted driver's license. Few days later the young man wrapped his Koenigsegg around a tree , with him and his hot girlfriend in it. Not even the carbon fiber safety cabin could save the pair.
Lesson is. High performance requires high skill. High skill comes from experience and good judgement.
@@i-..--..--..-i6985Aircraft Crew priorities during combat. As trained by USAF, RAF, French Air Force, and major NATO Allies.
1. Fly the aircraft
2. Navigate the aircraft.
3. Manage expendable resources (fuel, crew fatigue) and communications.
4. Defend the aircraft.
5. Offensively fight the aircraft . I.E. the mission objective .
Always be evaluating WIN priorities.
What's Important Now.
Note that shooting missiles , dropping bombs, going guns , comes last.
Worked all F-111 models as Avionics at depot McClellan AFB ca for many years. Anyone else there?
I strain gaged them for cold proof testing.
@@robertstack2144 A couple of back shop guys I knew worked that area. Freezing the wings then bending the heck out of them! It was Loud!
@@davenone7312 yes very loud when the wing broke. At GDFW we tested the static F-16 in the fixture at room temperature and it broke at 147% of ultimate load. That was loud. They pumped the room with the entire airplane in it down to -40 while pulling 6 gs i think .
My dads freind dennis cochran used to tell us good stories when we were growing up i miss mclellan afb
My Great Grampa Worked on that plane.
Viet Minh hiding in tunnel with Ak and 12oz cold rice : "again, really?". F111$400billion bust: "got em cap! thank you sir may I have another "
ASAR to F111 ground target radar. Hold my high speed digital circuitry.
Lol, that music. What time did the brass accept the new generation as music as here to stay?
Top bomber
Strike! The real Air Force. Everything else is a suppourt mission!
InFlight Refuel . Suppourt mission
HICAP . Suppourt mission
Escort. Suppourt Mission
Offensive Counter Air. Support mission
Defensive Counter Air. Support mission.
SEAD. Suppourt mission
JTAC/TACP- Suppourt mission
Chair Force 👆🏻
@@KirkHermary In a certain 5 sided ringed office building with its own ZIP and APO code, in overpriced Arlington, Va, . Yes it is . The more inner the ring , the more chair force is there. Then again not every zoomie can be Roger Ramjet. There is a need for Major Ayehowl, Colonel Sanders, and Gen. Brassbottom to enable and fund the supply chain, USO show, timely pay, orders, and forests of paperwork.
Hello War Thunder players!
Shouldn't the plane be called A-111? It's not a fighter at all
The F model was. The FB not so much. Took SRAM out of the FB's called it a G and gave it to the Aussie's!
@@davenone7312 We called them the C Model. Longer wings
The G model we gave them was in addition to the C model they already had.
Same problem with the F-117
Ln and Uh
No wonder they need to guys seems like a pretty shit system
What are you comparing that platform to? That was early 1960's technology, pretty shit hot if you ask me and I maintained those systems for 20 years on FB, A, F and E model aircraft. No other attack aircraft could do what the F111 could do as fast and as low in any weather with the bomb load it could carry. Spelling errors and ignorance don't lend credibility to you argument.
@@bradepperson4921 And the 111's were a workhorse during the Gulf war!! Too bad we found the wingbox's cracked, thats what did them in.
@@davenone7312 what are the wing boxes and why did they crack?
@@ek8710 That was the area where the wing attaches to the fuselage. They cracked due to heavy stresses put on them. The cost was way too high to replace them throughout the fleet. We stopped depot modifications right in the middle of production. In came flat bed trucks and started hauling them off. It was a sad day for the McClellan AFB F-111 workers for sure.
Well, at least they could spell two.