Eventually, it was replaced by the F-15E Strike Eagle and the F/A-18F Super Hornet. The F-111 remains a remarkable example of Cold War-era aircraft engineering. The F-111 Aardvark was a Unique Bird ...

Summary and Key Points: The F-111 "Aardvark," introduced during the Cold War, was a groundbreaking multirole attack aircraft considered by some as the "F-35 of its day." -Developed to address the ...

-Primarily serving as a bomber, the F-111 could deliver 8,000 pounds of bombs over 1,500 miles without refueling.-It saw action in the Vietnam War, Operation El Dorado Canyon, and Operation Desert ...

A chicken carcass launched at the Bird Impact Range at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, strikes the canopy of an F-16 Fighting Falcon during bird strike impact testing in 1983. (U.S. Air Force) ...

UDRI performs a wide variety of bird strike and foreign object damage (FOD) impact tests on aircraft structures and aircraft engine components. Skip to main content. Home. Learn; Lead; Serve; ...

An American Airlines flight out of LaGuardia Airport on Thursday was forced to make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport due to a reported bird strike, the airline said.

So, the designers of the F-16XL knew that they needed to create a bird that was as versatile as had been the F-111 Aardvark. It would seem as though the designers of the XL focused on the Aardvark ...

Report: bird strike caused aircraft incident in May 2024. Haley Lehman; May 16, 2025 May 16, 2025 ... a F-16C took off from Eielson Air Force Base during a routine training mission on May 28, ...

Even modern F-15E Strike Eagles struggle to make it out in one piece during modern nuclear attack simulations. As such, the F-111 was one of only a handful of jets to ever be test fitted with the ...

Bird strike disables a jetliner engine and forces an emergency landing at JFK airport No one was injured in the incident involving Flight 1722, which took off from LaGuardia heading to Charlotte ...

A Marine Corps F/A-18 takes off from Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, June 22, 2023. (Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin/Marine Corps) A bird strike caused a 2022 mishap in which a Marine fighter jet ...