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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F111
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Date: 15 Aug 90 03:21:41 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: mick@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au (Michael Purvis)
>	From the start, the Aardvark had problems.  It was too unwieldy for 
>	dogfighting and far too big and heavy for the Navy's carriers...

Actually, after strenuous efforts to improve its landing performance, it
passed its carrier-compatibility trials... after the Navy version had
already been cancelled (partly on grounds of carrier-compatibility
problems!).  Admittedly, it would have been usable only from the larger
carriers.  But the Navy did not want the F-111 and emphasized its problems
very heavily and its virtues not at all.  (The F-111B's specs, which it
mostly met, were much more demanding than those of the F-14A that replaced
it in Navy plans.)

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry