Revolutionary Design. The F-111 was built around two powerful yet fuel-efficient TF30 turbofan engines with new afterburner technology. A capacious fuselage could accommodate bomb loads of up to ...

The General Dynamics F-111 “Aardvark,” born from the 1960s TFX program, was a groundbreaking tactical strike aircraft and the ...

A combined 50,200 lbs of thrust at full afterburner propelled an 82,800 lb ... the F-111 was one of only a handful of jets to ever be test fitted with the AGM-69 SRAM thermonuclear missile.

However, the F-111’s design was biased in favor of the Air Force’s specifications. The carrier-based interceptor version, the F-111B, performed abominably in trials, struggling to exceed Mach 1.

USAF, Navy and Marines Struck Back at Qaddafi’s Libya for Terrorist Bombing. Their swing-wings straining to lift a heavy bomb load, the afterburner thunder from an air-armada of twenty-four F ...

The museum's TF30, built by Pratt & Whitney without an afterburner in 1966, powered an LTV A-7A. Credit Line Transferred from the U.S. Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio Date Circa 1966 Inventory Number ...