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

the F-105 Thunderchief (more of a heavy fighter-bomber configured into a medium bomber role), and the FB-111 Aardvark, a large interceptor that proved ideal for a medium bombing mission.

The FB-22 would have featured ... the concept of a high-speed regional bomber, the likes of which had disappeared since the retirement of the supersonic F-111—which, conceived in a period ...

It’s enough to make anyone believe in miracles. On Jan. 30, 1981, a $10.5 million FB-111A jet bomber plummeted directly toward the most densely populated section of Portsmouth. Roughly 2,500 ...

Summary and Key Points: In the early 2000s, the U.S. Air Force considered converting the F-22 Raptor into a bomber variant called the FB-22. This proposal aimed to leverage the Raptor's stealth ...

While the U.S. Air Force would eventually use, iterate, and improve the bomber hybrid until the 1990s, the F-111 was rejected by the U.S. Navy and replaced by the F-14 Tom Cat. In many ways ...

The F-111 was an oustanding aircraft by its size, weight, swing wings and escape module. We had the chance to have at Plattsburgh AFB until 1996 two squadrons of FB-111A ...

As a military-hardware order that had been proclaimed the richest in U.S. history, the F-111 fighter-bomber project seemed ... will take 395 of its F-111A and FB-111 versions.

PLATTSBURGH "" About 350 former FB-111 pilots, navigators and crew members landed in Plattsburgh for the fifth FB-111 Swing Wing reunion. "Everyone here was stationed here at one point. This ...