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Jaws2002

11-24-2011 06:47 PM

This is so Cool!
There's an F-111 in Texarkana, TX just off the Interstate 30 in some yard. Great looking bird.:grin:

I hope this birds find good homes and owners that take good care of them.

http://jobusu.smugmug.com/photos/615284673_sMQGX-L.jpg

KG26_Alpha

11-24-2011 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by swiss (Post 364162)

He never owned it, the whole thing was staged for the show.
It was funny as hell though.

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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II (Post 364168)

ah bummer, I thought he did! Or at least that what he said on a Top Gear magazine some time ago, but yeah, whichever the case, funny as hell! :grin:

Was borrow from Neil Airey

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...ivor.php?id=31

TomcatViP

11-24-2011 07:05 PM

if you want some info regarding the 111 you can browse this website :
http://www.f-111.net/

They hve pretty good info and even cheap sells a CD with a lot of interesting tech stuffs.

I hve to admit that this plane has always been fascinating to me exception made of the dump/burn air show trick

JG52Krupi

11-24-2011 07:47 PM

GRRRR... Give me a TSR2 any day....

Saddest day in British aviation history :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjN3P...eature=related

As good as the F-111 turned out to be I can't help but see it as the aircraft that doomed what was going to be a fantastic aircraft... no patriotism here BTW just sad to see politics destroy a great aircraft.

TomcatViP

11-24-2011 09:20 PM

TSR2?!!... Defiitively I can understand now that you are (so) British :mrgreen:

Sternjaeger II

11-24-2011 09:39 PM

yup, I have to say that I never understood the nostalgia for the plane that never was :confused:

JG52Krupi

11-24-2011 11:41 PM

Yeah I can't either...

The TSR2 "was" you utter fool, it flew it was on the verge of full scale manufacturing, if it was an aircraft that never made it off the drawing board then yes I could understand that but it was almost complete and a better aircraft.

Sternjaeger II

11-25-2011 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JG52Krupi (Post 364265)

I meant nobody really knows how the TSR2 would have operated, since it never made it to production, what I meant is that I don't understand what all this "aaah I wish we had the RSR2!" is based on, if it's because it's a cool all British plane or because it actually served a purpose.

From what I could see and read on the plane anyway, maybe it's a good thing it never made it: it would have cost you a lot of money and would have soon become obsolete.

Cool plane nonetheless, the one in Cosford is fantastic.

bw_wolverine

11-25-2011 04:22 PM

Let's not get started on 'Aircraft that might have been'.

As a Canadian, the Avro Arrow story makes me rage.

http://members.shaw.ca/b.bogdan/Arrow/sadstory.jpg

Sternjaeger II

11-25-2011 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bw_wolverine (Post 364428)

Let's not get started on 'Aircraft that might have been'.

As a Canadian, the Avro Arrow story makes me rage.

yeah, the two have disturbingly similar fates (and looks!)

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