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Post by planecrazy on Jan 3, 2019 18:55:43 GMT 12
Found these elsewhere obviously, I miss those Pigs! forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=80520Correct me if I'm wrong I remember many years ago one of them had an issue and the the ejected pilot pod end up somewhere in the water near Auckland. |
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Post by corsair67 on Jan 3, 2019 21:25:39 GMT 12
Yes, A8-141 crashed into the Hauraki Gulf in 1978, after the crew received a hot wheel well warning and the aircraft caught fire.
The escape module from this aircraft used to travel all around Australia to air shows, but is now a permanent exhibit at the Amberley Museum.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 3, 2019 21:53:27 GMT 12
Great photos there.
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Post by Mustang51 on Jan 4, 2019 8:19:28 GMT 12
I miss the pig ! F.35 just not as nice looking
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Post by horicle on Jan 4, 2019 9:04:40 GMT 12
Both times I remember four F-111's exercising at Ohakea only three went home.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jan 4, 2019 11:52:29 GMT 12
I have photos of the Ohakea crash
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Jan 4, 2019 20:06:28 GMT 12
Thanks for sharing that link! A8-132 survives to this day, on display at RAAF Base Edinburgh in SA & in her unique ARDU colour scheme  |
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Post by vultee43 on Jan 10, 2019 22:36:50 GMT 12
Still should be operational. Retired before their time.
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Post by typerated on Jan 11, 2019 7:13:25 GMT 12
Still should be operational. Retired before their time. I think you got that the wrong way round - should have gone years before - Replaced by 15E's |
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Post by vultee43 on Jan 11, 2019 12:01:53 GMT 12
Yeh...nah
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Post by typerated on Jan 11, 2019 21:07:36 GMT 12
It's not the F-111's capability- it's was the cost of the keeping it going that was the killer. Armchair experts know better apparently. |
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Post by vultee43 on Jan 11, 2019 22:00:43 GMT 12
Vs. F35's purchase cost and the ongoing drama it may have been prudent to hold on to them a little longer. The F15 is also reaching the end of its service life. Either way ourdependency on the US for military hardware is taking us down a slippery path if China and Russia's advances are to be believed. But this is only an armchair experts opinion.
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Post by corsair67 on Jan 14, 2019 22:42:41 GMT 12
I recall reading that it was costing around A$120 million/annum to keep 17 of the F-111 flyable near the end of their career.
Great aircraft, but it was the right time to withdraw them from service.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 15, 2019 12:08:34 GMT 12
$20 million of that was probably dumped and burnt fuel at airshows  |
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