Beautiful 'fuel dump and burn... :) :) I'm currently building a model (1/144 scale) of the F-111 and would like to include this videoclip in my building review video, with your permission, if I may?? It would be most appreciated..
FULL CREDIT will be given to you / your channel, of'course.. and a link in the info text below! Please let me know either way, refusal will not cause offence, but I'm hoping to be able to use it, of'course. Thank you very much in advance, Rob / BasicModelling
This is a Fuel Dump and Burn. The aircraft dumps fuel ignites it with a momentary afterburner light then shuts off the afterburner and allows the dumping fuel to burn off.
this is amazing , is the jet burning its fuel or what?? and doesn't it affect the engine efficiency ? and does all the fighter jets have this capability to burn extra fuel ?? and isn't it hazardous ?? ll anybody please tell me ?
@aeiou772 It's strictly an airshow trick done to impress the audience. It does nothing useful for the aircraft and is not done in normal operations. It's also a trick unique to the F-111 because of the location of its fuel dump outlet.
@TheTruthHurtsYup yeah, well why don't you sell your computer and give it to the poor? Even Jesus said, when countering the comment by Judas that his ointment could have been sold and given to the poor, "You will always have the poor, but you will not always have me" of course he knew he would die within a day, so maybe youre right.
@TheTruthHurtsYup yeah but what about the people you were talking about in africa? they are starving and we are having airshows. where is the justice?
you do know that the way the currency in the whole world works, is that it RELIES on there being poor people...todays money system wouldn't work at all otherwise...and dont start thinking im getting angry coz i dont want a flame war
@TheTruthHurtsYup Well thats thier fault. I know my government takes enough of my money to take care of them. I doubt many people actually know what poor is till you truely have nothing. No welfare, foodstamps, soup kitchens, shelters, or family/friends. Thats poor to me. Not currently unemployeed and in government housing, on foodstamps, welfare, and child support. If you can buy/get/recieve what you "NEED" your not poor.
If memory serves, in the F-111, the pilot manuall controls the sweep angle of the wings, whereas the computer does it automatically in the F-14. As such, its very accurate to call the ardvark the predecessor to the tom. Only real significant difference is the -111 was the bomber of our swing wing crafts
@dsoutherngent1 You are right the F-14 did sweep automatically, but the pilot had the option to manually sweep the wings as well. The F-111 was supposed to be a fighter interceptor for the Navy but was found to be undesirable for shipboard use, That is when the F-14 Tomcat was born. It is a shame that the U.S, no longer uses either of these planes. The Ardvark was a great attack plane and the Tomcat had become a great fighter and attack plane.
@Antifaith Zippo? LMAO! That was a good one! However, all I said was I see no afterburner. Do you??? I guess he shut it down after ignition. Or the camera just didn't get it.
I'm pretty sure, in fact I know, it's illegal to fly that low over a populated area. It might be different in the military, but fuel dumping over a crowd. Even I wouldn't do that. What if somehow the flame goes out and the pilot is still fuel-dumping, he is quite literally pouring jet fuel on the crowd. Is there some way the flame (afterburner) can fail, apart from an engine failure?
@markis338 it is close, it is a F-111 Ardvark. It has very similar shape and features to the tom cats famous swept wing design because it is a precursor to the F-14 tomcat in its final variant. General dynamics Started on the F-111 Project and built their experimental craft, but did not meet the navy standards so they teamed with Grumman to complete the project and introduce the F-14
@vikingpowr For a long time this F-111 was the most dangerous aircraft on Earth. It's not trash. USSR was deathly afraid of it during cold war because they couldn't stop it.
Blackbird is a different story , different aircraft, different purpose, etc. Has nothing to do with each other really.
@AKAtheA It's pretty useless in the day too. I've seen it a few times, and the best was in Brisbane, at night, just under a scattered cloud layer. Very very cool. But in the day. Meh.
I went to an air show once and I swear, it was full of the biggest retards and ugly people I've seen, bunch of over patriotic inbred hicks with the intelligence, or lack thereof to boot...Is this what our tax dollars go to? To waste fuel and pollute unnecessarily? Of course the retards who go to air shows must think it's all the rage.
you do realize that we ( the US air force) retired the F-111 long before 2005? and that this is an Australian F-111. and that is aussie "tax dollars at work" right? so before you unload with the "self hating american" rhetoric drivel you might want to comment on a vid of an american aircraft at an american airshow.
@crunchycrispybacon go have a lentil burger you fuck-tard...what's your idea of fun..listening to some doof doof shit in a hotted rice burner that couldn't pull the skin off the top of a custard while doing drive-by's past a 7-11 on a thursday, friday saturday night...go fuck off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and besides m2pwns1 it would b one thing if it was passenger jets..but all military aircraft experimental or not are payed for by taxes...that includes the jetfuel.. the ordanance and repairs.. whats a ticket cost for an air show?..10-20 buck..maybe 5000 people show.. thats would cover the cost of fuel for a day in a fighter jet. expecially when ur dumbing the fcken fuel... im not knocking the video im knockin the goverment and its waste of money
My dad always liked the F14 tomcats but hated the F16. He would always tell me that the F16s broke all the time. He is a retired naval officer that was always attached to carriers through out his career.
@minraja When did the navy have f-16s? I thought all of those were air force only cause the navy required (especially for carrier work) twin engine jets.
@mindeloman Its been over 16 years. I'll have to ask him. I do remember him complaining about them though. So maybe it was when he was attached to a land based squadron? I do remember him saying the electronics of the craft wasn't reliable. I'll ask him about it tomorrow. Maybe I am thinking of an F-17/18. I'm pretty sure they had those. But I could be wrong. Either way I did get to see an awesome air show while out at sea.
@mindeloman You are right. F-16s didn't go on carriers. I asked my dad about them today. I was also right about why he didn't like them due to electrical problems. The ones he didn't like that were on the carrier were the F-18 hornets. He says pilots had to choose to either carry ordnance or fuel but not both due to the limitations of the aircraft.
Germany never gave up the fight for world control. With the US stuck in Afghanistan and Irak wasting its wealth making new enemies, Germany made a large leap forward. Having lost two open wars to become the dominating power on earth, Germany reverted to the tactics used before 1914 and between1918-1939: Infiltrating other countries with snitchers, manipulating them and draw as much wealth as possible from these victims of German greed. My brother Markus Bott was murdered because of our homepage
@gameboy1971 oh my bad im thinking of the F-14 with this plane and the U-2 with the Blackbird. the Aardvark and the U-2 look alike when the wings arent swept
@jak9200 The F-14 wasn't put into operational service with the USN until the very tail end of the Vietnam War. The F-111 could fly at incredibly high speeds at low altitudes and was a pure bomber. The Aardvark lasted for a long time because it was simply that effective at its job.
@jak9200 It was far from useless. Keep in mind that the aircraft was designed for an era long passed, and cannot be compared to the threat environment aircraft are meant to operate in today. The F-111 was an essential tool for a number of US operations during it's long service, ie. Libya and Desert Storm, both as a low penetration surgical strike platform and a jamming platform. Funny enough, you couldn't have compared two completely opposite airframes. :) Perhaps you meant Tomcat..
@spins321 look two comments down about the two different airframe thing... i did mean tomcat and i corrected myself. but as for everything else... maybe i should do my homework a little more
@jak9200 For sure man! The F-111 is a fascinating plane, and it's really interesting how it came to be and evolved. A couple F-111's and an EF-111 have MiG kills from Desert Storm because they essentially outmaneuvered their attackers causing them to crash. One F-111 basically outran a pursuer causing him to run out of fuel and crash. It's always surprising what all these aircraft are capable of (Tomcat is ALOT more maneuverable than what people think also for a big jet!)
The F-111's main role was to drop nuclear bombs. It really wasn't that good a tactical bomber. We lost 2 of them when we attacked the 3rd world country of Libya.
@jak9200 The F111 was made to sling a tactical nuke and bug-out before it impacted. It was useless in the sense that we never needed it during the cold war or, obviously, after the cold war.
Seein this at the Brisbane river fire tonight was 1 of the coolest things ive ever seen. F1-11 flying low over the river near building at night surrounded by fireworks... And Brisbane is the last place in the world u will see it! :D
Apparently not the last place in the world.....we just saw it last weekend at the Williamtown RAAF Base 2010 Air Show...(but not with the riverside fireworks!
Apparently not the last place in the world.....we just saw it last weekend at the Williamtown RAAF Base 2010 Air Show...(but not with the riverside fireworks! See my video post.
Apparently not the last place in the world.....we just saw it last weekend at the Williamtown RAAF Base 2010 Air Show...(but not with the riverside fireworks!
@Racing600RR In an emergency that would require a fully fuelled Aircraft to land, the pilot would jettison fuel to reduce the overall weight of the aircraft. The fuel dump valve on a F-111 is located between the engines at the rear. If the pilot engages Afterburn during the fuel dump procedure the raw fuel being dumped would ignite due to the proximity of the afterburner flames.Dump and burns are carried out as a spectacle at Airshows etc just for the wow factor.
I watched a police helicopter pilot dumping fuel because an emergency was closer than at first thought and he hadn't used it up by getting there. the weight of the casualty made the hover weight just over the allowed margin.....soooooo....interesting to witness.
It's for fuel dumping in case of an emergency landing. If the aircraft is fully laden with fuel and weapons, it might be beyond its maximum landing weight, so this is a quick way to get rid of fuel without dumping the raw product into the atmosphere.
@KartKing4ever Yes. Congratulations by the way, you are obviously smarter not only than the people who designed the plane, but the pilot that just did with a few thousand people and a video camera watching.
Arthur C Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The test is whether or not you can explain it to someone from 100 years ago.
F-111 could've fake being shot down.
lanunselat 1 day ago
Beautiful 'fuel dump and burn... :) :) I'm currently building a model (1/144 scale) of the F-111 and would like to include this videoclip in my building review video, with your permission, if I may?? It would be most appreciated..
FULL CREDIT will be given to you / your channel, of'course.. and a link in the info text below! Please let me know either way, refusal will not cause offence, but I'm hoping to be able to use it, of'course. Thank you very much in advance, Rob / BasicModelling
BasicModelling 1 month ago
This is a Fuel Dump and Burn. The aircraft dumps fuel ignites it with a momentary afterburner light then shuts off the afterburner and allows the dumping fuel to burn off.
flflash4717 1 month ago
Wish my dumps loooked like that :/
brightlights456X 1 month ago
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apostrophejesus 1 month ago
Hey! It's Buck Rogers! lmao!
Puff29646 1 month ago
this is amazing , is the jet burning its fuel or what?? and doesn't it affect the engine efficiency ? and does all the fighter jets have this capability to burn extra fuel ?? and isn't it hazardous ?? ll anybody please tell me ?
aeiou772 1 month ago
@aeiou772 It's strictly an airshow trick done to impress the audience. It does nothing useful for the aircraft and is not done in normal operations. It's also a trick unique to the F-111 because of the location of its fuel dump outlet.
colindhowell 2 weeks ago
@colindhowell thankyou very much,it was really informative
aeiou772 2 weeks ago
I could gas up my car for a year on that.
FantasticBob7000 1 month ago
is that a nuke in the background?
TheLegendary754 2 months ago
what for?
RobotN001 2 months ago
DAMN thats cool
kowalityjesus 2 months ago
And what was the cost to the tax payer? Lets say.....6 digits.....
anujapt 3 months ago
@anujapt no doubt, this showing could've feed hundreds if not thousands for a day. But who cares about the 'little people' right.
TheTruthHurtsYup 3 months ago
@TheTruthHurtsYup haters be hatin'
cheesoos 2 months ago
@cheesoos people be starvin'.
TheTruthHurtsYup 2 months ago
@TheTruthHurtsYup yeah, well why don't you sell your computer and give it to the poor? Even Jesus said, when countering the comment by Judas that his ointment could have been sold and given to the poor, "You will always have the poor, but you will not always have me" of course he knew he would die within a day, so maybe youre right.
kowalityjesus 2 months ago in playlist kowalityjesus's favorites
@kowalityjesus I serve the homeless community through volunteer work many times each year, so ya, but nice sarcasm there dickhead.
TheTruthHurtsYup 2 months ago
@TheTruthHurtsYup yeah but what about the people you were talking about in africa? they are starving and we are having airshows. where is the justice?
kowalityjesus 2 months ago
@TheTruthHurtsYup
you do know that the way the currency in the whole world works, is that it RELIES on there being poor people...todays money system wouldn't work at all otherwise...and dont start thinking im getting angry coz i dont want a flame war
xG3ARH3ADx 2 months ago
@xG3ARH3ADx Yes, it relies on them being poor so they can be taken advantage of.
TheTruthHurtsYup 2 months ago
@TheTruthHurtsYup Well thats thier fault. I know my government takes enough of my money to take care of them. I doubt many people actually know what poor is till you truely have nothing. No welfare, foodstamps, soup kitchens, shelters, or family/friends. Thats poor to me. Not currently unemployeed and in government housing, on foodstamps, welfare, and child support. If you can buy/get/recieve what you "NEED" your not poor.
PIONEERaudioLOVER 1 month ago
@PIONEERaudioLOVER well then by your definition there is not a single living poor person in the world. congratulations.
TheTruthHurtsYup 1 month ago
that plane had Mexican.
octoron85 3 months ago
time for a weiner roast
Dimigrey 3 months ago
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And we get taxed for that...?
biggbigjim 4 months ago
flamin like the frickin sun lol
ucandoit245 4 months ago
What a waste of fuel!! Should have used it to do more flying!!
NedTheDread 4 months ago
If memory serves, in the F-111, the pilot manuall controls the sweep angle of the wings, whereas the computer does it automatically in the F-14. As such, its very accurate to call the ardvark the predecessor to the tom. Only real significant difference is the -111 was the bomber of our swing wing crafts
dsoutherngent1 4 months ago
@dsoutherngent1 You are right the F-14 did sweep automatically, but the pilot had the option to manually sweep the wings as well. The F-111 was supposed to be a fighter interceptor for the Navy but was found to be undesirable for shipboard use, That is when the F-14 Tomcat was born. It is a shame that the U.S, no longer uses either of these planes. The Ardvark was a great attack plane and the Tomcat had become a great fighter and attack plane.
JPStuehrenberg 4 months ago
Just an ignited fuel dump. No afterburner that I can see.
Puff29646 4 months ago
@Puff29646 Ok so what do you think ignited the fuel? Was there a guy hanging out the back with a zippo?
Antifaith29 1 month ago
@Antifaith Zippo? LMAO! That was a good one! However, all I said was I see no afterburner. Do you??? I guess he shut it down after ignition. Or the camera just didn't get it.
Puff29646 1 month ago
I'm pretty sure, in fact I know, it's illegal to fly that low over a populated area. It might be different in the military, but fuel dumping over a crowd. Even I wouldn't do that. What if somehow the flame goes out and the pilot is still fuel-dumping, he is quite literally pouring jet fuel on the crowd. Is there some way the flame (afterburner) can fail, apart from an engine failure?
s030141 5 months ago
I miss flying them
Potatoman3175 5 months ago
Correct me if im wrong, but i heard its possible to do an afterburner fuel dump on an F-14 tomcat.
markis338 5 months ago
@markis338 it is close, it is a F-111 Ardvark. It has very similar shape and features to the tom cats famous swept wing design because it is a precursor to the F-14 tomcat in its final variant. General dynamics Started on the F-111 Project and built their experimental craft, but did not meet the navy standards so they teamed with Grumman to complete the project and introduce the F-14
ajonz9213 5 months ago
NOT TRUE
Y2R4U 6 months ago
I flew over Avalon 2 days ago, should be landing there in a few months time
erniethefart 6 months ago
Good old Aardvark!
killingamps 6 months ago
Was it only the F-111 that could do this?
ToonandBBfan 6 months ago
Flyby is very close to the crowd.
SteveWard3928 7 months ago
lol...that plane represents our military spending policy: going around in circles pissing the spoils away.
KDALove 7 months ago
@KDALove This is an Australian f-111 not USA
Turkeysitar 7 months ago
@Turkeysitar My statement still applies.
KDALove 7 months ago
He ignited the plasma!
monkeyboy4746 7 months ago
there's our hard earned money being wasted.great job government
fishjnky 8 months ago
man i love the sight of climate change happening right before my eyes!
olliewilliams5 8 months ago
Looks more fuel consuming than a Prius...
lomtar 8 months ago
@lomtar hmmmm, i think i should see a roadtest first =)
Chilibe 8 months ago
@vikingpowr For a long time this F-111 was the most dangerous aircraft on Earth. It's not trash. USSR was deathly afraid of it during cold war because they couldn't stop it.
Blackbird is a different story , different aircraft, different purpose, etc. Has nothing to do with each other really.
OlderG0ds 8 months ago
Fuckin Cool!
n2motocross 8 months ago
It's a great big $10k per hour torch.
TheTopBloke 8 months ago
@TheTopBloke more like per minute ;-)
AKAtheA 8 months ago
@AKAtheA It's pretty useless in the day too. I've seen it a few times, and the best was in Brisbane, at night, just under a scattered cloud layer. Very very cool. But in the day. Meh.
TheTopBloke 8 months ago
@TheTopBloke yeah, during riverfire it lit up the whole river :D
DarkstarNovembr 8 months ago
Must be a nice target for heat seakers
OriginalAtomicSheep 9 months ago
It looks like the batmobile....
likko16 9 months ago 2
Does anyone see the mushroom cloud in the background?
Syndicated4u 9 months ago 85
@Syndicated4u Thats one big ass forest fire
tahoeskiier 5 months ago 9
@Syndicated4u YES
FSX7340 5 months ago
@Syndicated4u probably they showed nukes in there show too
SuperAaaaa123456 1 month ago
I don't think that'll pass emissions.
astrak1001 9 months ago
It's an aircare special...
ghm389 9 months ago
IT WON'T PASS THE GAS TEST...
eeretz 9 months ago
"That, is the sound of money exploding." -Jeremy Clarkson
Dearayne 9 months ago
I try not to do that anymore - fuel costs and all...
pmgodfrey 9 months ago
So he's dumping fuel over the crowd? And they're all staring directly up? Hope they're all wearing eye protection lol. PPE baby, PPE.
TheKing0fHalo 10 months ago
@TheKing0fHalo
Err...shit, now you're telling me :-P
GholaTlx 9 months ago
@TheKing0fHalo
kingclan2 9 months ago
What's the point of them doing this?
nexus1g 10 months ago
I went to an air show once and I swear, it was full of the biggest retards and ugly people I've seen, bunch of over patriotic inbred hicks with the intelligence, or lack thereof to boot...Is this what our tax dollars go to? To waste fuel and pollute unnecessarily? Of course the retards who go to air shows must think it's all the rage.
crunchycrispybacon 10 months ago
@crunchycrispybacon
you are an american right?
you do realize that we ( the US air force) retired the F-111 long before 2005? and that this is an Australian F-111. and that is aussie "tax dollars at work" right? so before you unload with the "self hating american" rhetoric drivel you might want to comment on a vid of an american aircraft at an american airshow.
just a thought
evilsnuffalupagus 10 months ago 18
@crunchycrispybacon you probably think a cock up the ass is everything for me it takes an airshow.
datzfast 10 months ago
@crunchycrispybacon go have a lentil burger you fuck-tard...what's your idea of fun..listening to some doof doof shit in a hotted rice burner that couldn't pull the skin off the top of a custard while doing drive-by's past a 7-11 on a thursday, friday saturday night...go fuck off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joee75 7 months ago
@crunchycrispybacon lol, dumbass
TF141Afterburner 7 months ago
@crunchycrispybacon You went.
tryithere 6 months ago
what a waste of our oil
temich1985 10 months ago
and besides m2pwns1 it would b one thing if it was passenger jets..but all military aircraft experimental or not are payed for by taxes...that includes the jetfuel.. the ordanance and repairs.. whats a ticket cost for an air show?..10-20 buck..maybe 5000 people show.. thats would cover the cost of fuel for a day in a fighter jet. expecially when ur dumbing the fcken fuel... im not knocking the video im knockin the goverment and its waste of money
dantheman167 10 months ago
if u think that tickets cover the cost of a fighter jet and fuel then ur the doush
dantheman167 10 months ago
ah! this is what the iraq war was for! we needed all the oil to do things like this!! :P ok, i can agree with the war now....... haha
IanRossDavies 10 months ago
What a waste of fuel!! xD
xXThatFurryVixenXx 10 months ago
Your tax dollars hard at work
dantheman167 11 months ago
@dantheman167 your a douche
pigs1arnt1that1great 10 months ago
@dantheman167 its an airshow, people pay for tickets
m2PWNS 10 months ago
That is really green. =) Haha Kidding.
spenatjonas 11 months ago
What the hell is wrong with the clouds?
Masoud5991 11 months ago
@Masoud5991 its rain falling out of the clouds
skateboy159 11 months ago
WTF! EVERYONE PAUSE AT 0:08. IS THAT A CLOUD EXPLOSION IN THE BACKGROUND? WTF!
ZhangFitzu 11 months ago
@ZhangFitzu maybe a storm cloud? lol it looks like an explosion cloud though
AFlYiNtAcO 10 months ago
@AFlYiNtAcO ..bush fire.
joee75 7 months ago
Hey, pilot.
What?
There's fire in you tail.
WTF?
merdaporrenta 11 months ago
WTF american put flamethrower to the F111. guess thats the new weopon installed on F111.
JustinLCK 11 months ago
My dad always liked the F14 tomcats but hated the F16. He would always tell me that the F16s broke all the time. He is a retired naval officer that was always attached to carriers through out his career.
minraja 11 months ago
@minraja When did the navy have f-16s? I thought all of those were air force only cause the navy required (especially for carrier work) twin engine jets.
mindeloman 11 months ago
@mindeloman Its been over 16 years. I'll have to ask him. I do remember him complaining about them though. So maybe it was when he was attached to a land based squadron? I do remember him saying the electronics of the craft wasn't reliable. I'll ask him about it tomorrow. Maybe I am thinking of an F-17/18. I'm pretty sure they had those. But I could be wrong. Either way I did get to see an awesome air show while out at sea.
minraja 11 months ago
@mindeloman You are right. F-16s didn't go on carriers. I asked my dad about them today. I was also right about why he didn't like them due to electrical problems. The ones he didn't like that were on the carrier were the F-18 hornets. He says pilots had to choose to either carry ordnance or fuel but not both due to the limitations of the aircraft.
minraja 11 months ago
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Germany never gave up the fight for world control. With the US stuck in Afghanistan and Irak wasting its wealth making new enemies, Germany made a large leap forward. Having lost two open wars to become the dominating power on earth, Germany reverted to the tactics used before 1914 and between1918-1939: Infiltrating other countries with snitchers, manipulating them and draw as much wealth as possible from these victims of German greed. My brother Markus Bott was murdered because of our homepage
wwwtotalitaerde 11 months ago
nice thing... in my opinion it is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built..
pR05t0 1 year ago
such a waste of fuel :*(
Hardmetal1993 1 year ago
wished my dumps looked like that...
JacobWeinberg 1 year ago 96
@JacobWeinberg Eat my missus' chilli.
m1leswilliams 7 months ago
@m1leswilliams lol, i'll stop by tomorrow night
ButteryBuddha 7 months ago
@ButteryBuddha No worries, I'll put the bog roll in the fridge for you :-)
m1leswilliams 7 months ago 2
@m1leswilliams Sweet!
JacobWeinberg 7 months ago
@JacobWeinberg My dumps look a lot like that after a mexican dinner and a hard party night.
lurion 7 months ago
@lurion lol, Taco Bells shits
JacobWeinberg 7 months ago
@JacobWeinberg Wish my dumps didn't feel like that...
ilikemonkeysss 6 months ago
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@JacobWeinberg 'wished my dumps looked like that...' Trust me. You really don't.
SheikhTaqiyyameister 6 months ago
lol that is engine failure not afterburner :D :D
MartinMunkaable 1 year ago
@MartinMunkaable ok
joee75 1 year ago
Its more incredible how they eject from their seats!
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any one else think that the f111 was a useless aircraft? i feel like it tried to live up to the blackbirds standards but never quite got there...
jak9200 1 year ago
@jak9200 F111 is/was a low altitude bomber. The Blackbird was a high altitude spy plane. Different purpose, different results.
gameboy1971 1 year ago 74
@gameboy1971 oh my bad im thinking of the F-14 with this plane and the U-2 with the Blackbird. the Aardvark and the U-2 look alike when the wings arent swept
jak9200 1 year ago
@jak9200 The F-14 wasn't put into operational service with the USN until the very tail end of the Vietnam War. The F-111 could fly at incredibly high speeds at low altitudes and was a pure bomber. The Aardvark lasted for a long time because it was simply that effective at its job.
336kgf 1 year ago
@jak9200 It was far from useless. Keep in mind that the aircraft was designed for an era long passed, and cannot be compared to the threat environment aircraft are meant to operate in today. The F-111 was an essential tool for a number of US operations during it's long service, ie. Libya and Desert Storm, both as a low penetration surgical strike platform and a jamming platform. Funny enough, you couldn't have compared two completely opposite airframes. :) Perhaps you meant Tomcat..
spins321 1 year ago
@spins321 look two comments down about the two different airframe thing... i did mean tomcat and i corrected myself. but as for everything else... maybe i should do my homework a little more
jak9200 1 year ago
@jak9200 For sure man! The F-111 is a fascinating plane, and it's really interesting how it came to be and evolved. A couple F-111's and an EF-111 have MiG kills from Desert Storm because they essentially outmaneuvered their attackers causing them to crash. One F-111 basically outran a pursuer causing him to run out of fuel and crash. It's always surprising what all these aircraft are capable of (Tomcat is ALOT more maneuverable than what people think also for a big jet!)
spins321 1 year ago
@spins321 well i would imagine so wings fully swept but un-swept wings seem like it would be a lot more of a challenge to do the same maneuvers
jak9200 1 year ago
@jak9200 lol, are you serious mate?! two completly different machines for totally different tasks.. they probably couldnt be much further apart..
farewell piggy, she was retired the otherday..
vlfreak 1 year ago
@jak9200 They were designed for totally different roles and are, as such, not comparable.
triumph1974 1 year ago
@jak9200 lol fail comment.
jlebesis 1 year ago
@jak9200
The F-111's main role was to drop nuclear bombs. It really wasn't that good a tactical bomber. We lost 2 of them when we attacked the 3rd world country of Libya.
monkeyman1140 11 months ago
@monkeyman1140 1 of them
tryithere 6 months ago
@jak9200 me too
7prowl 11 months ago
@jak9200 The only resemblence between the F111 and the SR-71 Blackbird is that they were both designed to cruise at extremely high speeds.
OriMedian 11 months ago
@jak9200 The F111 was made to sling a tactical nuke and bug-out before it impacted. It was useless in the sense that we never needed it during the cold war or, obviously, after the cold war.
DonzeJ 10 months ago
@DonzeJ yes we kneeded it. it caused the peace your so proud of.
datzfast 10 months ago
@jak9200 F111 = BOMBER. Blackbird = SPY PLANE.
WHAT MORON DOESNT KNOW THAT!!!
gothekittycats 10 months ago
@gothekittycats read some of my comments before going off on me. i was thinking of the f14 with the f111 and u2 with the sr71.
jak9200 10 months ago
@jak9200 yes its true
AvidAngels 8 months ago
@jak9200 get back to CoD. Obviously you didn't even know that they are two completely different planes with two completely different roles.
Legendary588 8 months ago
@Legendary588 get back to the comments. youd see that i made a mistake and admitted it... besides what would shooting guns have to do with aircraft?
jak9200 8 months ago
What a F-ing waste!
chuckeieio 1 year ago
This is the kind of thing you want to do on a Friday night outside the bar so that you can become a chick magnet.
Boomernavy 1 year ago 2
i would have preferred it if the pilot did not fly over the crowd doing that lol
cjellwood 1 year ago
@cjellwood Well he didn't.
TD625G 1 year ago
Seein this at the Brisbane river fire tonight was 1 of the coolest things ive ever seen. F1-11 flying low over the river near building at night surrounded by fireworks... And Brisbane is the last place in the world u will see it! :D
kirbsta23 1 year ago
@kirbsta23
Apparently not the last place in the world.....we just saw it last weekend at the Williamtown RAAF Base 2010 Air Show...(but not with the riverside fireworks!
MrsWendywoo 1 year ago
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@kirbsta23
Apparently not the last place in the world.....we just saw it last weekend at the Williamtown RAAF Base 2010 Air Show...(but not with the riverside fireworks! See my video post.
MrsWendywoo 1 year ago
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@kirbsta23
Apparently not the last place in the world.....we just saw it last weekend at the Williamtown RAAF Base 2010 Air Show...(but not with the riverside fireworks!
MrsWendywoo 1 year ago
What´s the purpose of this in real life?? Not complaining, i just would like to understand...
Racing600RR 1 year ago
@Racing600RR In an emergency that would require a fully fuelled Aircraft to land, the pilot would jettison fuel to reduce the overall weight of the aircraft. The fuel dump valve on a F-111 is located between the engines at the rear. If the pilot engages Afterburn during the fuel dump procedure the raw fuel being dumped would ignite due to the proximity of the afterburner flames.Dump and burns are carried out as a spectacle at Airshows etc just for the wow factor.
Breatherable 1 year ago
@Breatherable thanks for your answer dude
Racing600RR 1 year ago
And thats why that plane is out of service for the US
MarkThisHour 1 year ago
@MarkThisHour
Why, because it had the ability to fuel dump?
No it's out of service for US because F-15E and B-1 took over its roles.
OlderG0ds 1 year ago
@OlderG0ds
lol no i was just messin around, but yeah, the F-15E and B-1 are far superior when it comes down to it
MarkThisHour 1 year ago
I gotta try that on fsx!
galloway6204 1 year ago
smelly
666DarkEgo 1 year ago
My IR missiles loves that!
sbrughi 1 year ago
My IR missiles really loves that!!
sbrughi 1 year ago
i bet he dont get 40 to the gallon lol
jango1968 1 year ago 4
Atomic fart!!
stupidcat9000 1 year ago
Thats whats called a sidewinder bullseye.
tubeparker23 1 year ago
lol! now the pilots can fry sausages! :D
TomekKogutah 1 year ago
that's sweet. even the aussie accent to narrate
clunecrazie8 1 year ago
to many tacos
iAirsoft69 1 year ago
What the f--- does "Invalid parameters" mean?!
Comments2010 1 year ago
@Comments2010 It means you gotta refresh your browser.
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barubba 2 years ago
My 4 cylinder minivan can do that!
I aint impressed.
lifeseeker1 2 years ago 14
That means your minivan is running rich
FelchBelcher 2 years ago 35
@FelchBelcher I LOL'd
SNDNGRKLR 9 months ago
I watched a police helicopter pilot dumping fuel because an emergency was closer than at first thought and he hadn't used it up by getting there. the weight of the casualty made the hover weight just over the allowed margin.....soooooo....interesting to witness.
tony00165 2 years ago
That is quite an interesting show, but what practical reason does it actually exist for?
AtemiRaven 2 years ago
It's for fuel dumping in case of an emergency landing. If the aircraft is fully laden with fuel and weapons, it might be beyond its maximum landing weight, so this is a quick way to get rid of fuel without dumping the raw product into the atmosphere.
musicissopretty 2 years ago
the fire from the afterburner would ignite the fuel and blow the fuck out of it
KartKing4ever 2 years ago
@KartKing4ever Yes. Congratulations by the way, you are obviously smarter not only than the people who designed the plane, but the pilot that just did with a few thousand people and a video camera watching.
PeteZ28 2 years ago
@KartKing4ever seeming not.
ramboormark 2 years ago 2
why does the F-111 have the posibiliti to dump fuel in flight???
and if i am correct its the only plane that can do this ?? (releasing feul between the 2 engines)
lap116 2 years ago
its a tornado!!!!!!!!!!!
wanner364 2 years ago
@wanner364 No it is an F111 Ardvark.
jimmydcap 2 years ago
@wanner364 your a noob...fucking F111
joee75 1 year ago
This is the Ozzies favourite trick, its a damn shame they are getting rid of the F-111s since they are a fine aircraft.
wyzarme 2 years ago
Arthur C Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The test is whether or not you can explain it to someone from 100 years ago.
gameboy1971 2 years ago 15
i wonder what people in ancient times would think if they saw that! lol
jonred233 2 years ago 2
hmm, wonder if a car can fuel dump like that...
08xiaomav08 2 years ago