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1960s- F111B - Warning - do not stand in the jet engine exhaust / Louder than a Grateful Dead concert
A page from an early draft of an F111B maintenance manual - never completed because the plane never went into service.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara intended to "save money" by forcing the Air Force and Navy to use a common design despite protest from the military, the contractors, and congress. He also heavily slanted the design towards the Air Force mission to the extent it could not do the Navy mission. Only 7 F111B were built of which 2 crashed and another was damaged. It never entered service -- only used for flight testing.
After the program was cancelled, Grumman used the "lessons learned" to design the very successful F-14, designed from the beginning for the Navy's carrier based mission. Some parts of the F111B, such as the engines, were suitable for the Navy mission and were carried over.
Many examples of the Air Force version were built and had a long service life.
Saw the Grateful Dead perform at a free concert on campus in May 1970 to mark the Kent State / Cambodia bombing protest.
1960s- F111B - Warning - do not stand in the jet engine exhaust / Louder than a Grateful Dead concert
A page from an early draft of an F111B maintenance manual - never completed because the plane never went into service.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara intended to "save money" by forcing the Air Force and Navy to use a common design despite protest from the military, the contractors, and congress. He also heavily slanted the design towards the Air Force mission to the extent it could not do the Navy mission. Only 7 F111B were built of which 2 crashed and another was damaged. It never entered service -- only used for flight testing.
After the program was cancelled, Grumman used the "lessons learned" to design the very successful F-14, designed from the beginning for the Navy's carrier based mission. Some parts of the F111B, such as the engines, were suitable for the Navy mission and were carried over.
Many examples of the Air Force version were built and had a long service life.
Saw the Grateful Dead perform at a free concert on campus in May 1970 to mark the Kent State / Cambodia bombing protest.