Oz F-111 fleet grounded…

Have a look at this link;

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=235200&page=3

and scroll down to post #55……the full monty.

G’day 😉

Well obviously, if the wheels keep coming off then they will be grounded. 😉

But I wouldn’t worry because we always grounding the things – invaders should take note and time their incursion to just after the latest accident.

I fully expect that paleaontolgists will soon be including the F111 in their university courses. We archaeologists had to drop F111 studies because they moved out of our the official time zone limits of study.

😉 😉

But on a serious note we, once a year, find the one that is working and arrange for it to overfly some major sporting event. We need about a year for this as finding the working one can be tricky.

We keep the cobwebs out by flying them.

LoL we may have “olde” planes but we still kick ass. :p http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?prod=11942&session=dae.21894237.1153300515.RL34I8Oa9dUAAC6yTyk&modele=jdc_1

Please accept an unreserved appology for any offence caused, it was indeed a wind up; our own airforce is just retiring 50 year old Candberras so those of us who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Steve

Quite a few in museums too, including a flying museum that calls itself the Royal Australian Air Force!

Probably a wind-up but I find it offensive.

Quite a few in museums too, including a flying museum that calls itself the Royal Australian Air Force!

Steve

Lol the F111,s are older than me and I,m in my mid 30,s.Our crews are amongst the best in the world.Why because we have a looot of country to defend and not many pilots to do it.

They can post their own, if they’re interested. The F111 is sufficiently old enough to be considered as “Historic”, which is why I started my thread at about the same time as this one, also here.

In modern military it wouldn’t have been read by me.

No offence intended, but wouldn’t this get a better readership in “Modern Military”? I know the old one-eleven is no spring chicken now, but even so…

Impressive.That “rookie” has got big kahonies 😉

Having seen this on the news i thought it was a very well executed wheels up landing.

Awww, that’s just the posh way of saying a belly landing….

Hi,

I saw this on the news tonight. A very skillful landing by the pilot, a credit to his training.

The newsreader stated that the aircraft carried out a safe landing on its undercarriage. Obviously she never saw the video footage.

Alex

Very lucky indeed. Good controlled landing though.

Thanks for the link. 🙂

The BBC had a short video of the incident.

If that’s the skill of a “rookie” pilot, it was extremely impressive. The guy has certainly learned his lessons well, and should be well rewarded for his skill in executing the landing.