Christmas cleaning turned up this backpage from the RAF safety magazine Air Clues, October 1966:
“Destined, in its F-111K form, to enter service with the RAF in early 1969, the General Dynamics F-111 i s currently undergoing extensive flight testing at the hands of USAF and USN pilots. It has also been flown by an RAF test pilot ……”
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By: dhfan - 25th December 2003 at 00:30
They cancelled TSR2 to not buy those. Pay towards them yes, receive them, no.
Bl**dy politicians. Mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble…
By: Flood - 24th December 2003 at 20:25
Interesting to note that they got close enough to being delivered that they were given serial numbers – XV884-869 for the TF-111Ks and XV902-947 for the F-111Ks (apparently).
Were they ever built?
Flood.
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December 24, 2003 at 12:18 pm