Great web page, I read in one of my books that the Aussies loved the phantom so much they wanted to keep them and cancel the F111 order but there was some shenanigans in Washington on behalf of the companies behind the F111 to make them take the aardvark.

Curlyboy

As a RAAF brat living on RAAF Base Richmond during the early 1970s that observation is very true …..the RAAF just loved the Phantom and did want to keep them. But the talk was more to not replacing the F111 order but to just have the F4 with the F111 as well.

I can remember at that time many of the RAAF guys at Richmond calling any visiting Phantoms from RAAF Base Amberley …” Flying Powerhouse’s”.

They were simply brilliant.