Brilliant! I’ve red it without stopping. It ‘s clear, neat, even for someone like me who only has vague knowledge of Typhoon / Rafale deep caracteristics.

You have to publish this one, really!

Yep I saw what Royal said. Don’t forget that Sarko was not very warm about the 2nd carrier 3 months ago, but he changed its mind (no there’s nothing nasty nor polemic in my sentence).
Problem is the PA.2 is the “child” of Chirac and Alliot Marie. Alas, both are leaving in may (that’s why they try to “secure” the project by buying catapults, as it was noticed earlier in this thread 🙂 ).

As Fedaykin mentioned in page 1… the Jag was not well suited for carriers.
The prototype now lay in rochefort Aeronavale museum (they need help, aircrafts are in danger since the storm of december 1999, which damaged their hangar).

According to the website already mentioned, two aircrafts were also considered, the Mirage F1 and Mirage G.

This seem curious, as these two were fighters rather than attack aircrafts… I’m asking if the Aeonavale didn’t want to replace the Crusader by a sole multirole aircraft.

The service already had examined the idea in the late 50’s with the Etendard IV, which was supposed to take interception duties as well… but due to its transsonic performances the Etendard shifted to gound attack when Crusaders entered service in 1965.

Brilliant and fascinating thread! Even if he hate Chirac, I don’t think Sarkozy would scrapp the CVF if he become president in may. But I have to check Segolene’s position on the subject 😉 …

British secret projects (bombers)

Hello! the answer to your question figure in the book mentionned above.
According to Tony buttler, there was only two F-111K. They were stopped, half finished in march 1968, then went into storage before beeing scrapped in July 1969.
Pic here

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0VACZD7MYVgEe125qJJ48M7dq9Pmlktvy*5!qhESF…

At the risk of drifting slightly off-topic, can anyone settle for once and for all the fate of the partly-completed F-111Ks?

There seem to be at least three versions of events:

1) The two TF-111Ks were flown as experimental YF-111As, and the rest finished as FB-111s.

2) As above, only the YF-111As were completed but never flown.

3) The whole lot were scrapped, as there were too many detail differences with USAF-spec F-111s, although smaller components may have crept into USAF machines. One source has it that an outer wing was used to repair a damaged F-111E.

Somone must know for certain?

William