060718 F111 Belly Landing @ Amberley

F111 Belly landing @ amberley after losing a wheel on takeoff

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• F111
• Crash
• landing
• Amberley
• Belly
• Takeoff
• Wheel
• RAAF

[mrsurfingtarp]

@macdonaldjohnstonfan thank you, someone that thinks the same as me, when I went to RAAF amberley a couple of months ago i asked why they were going to be decommissioned, they said it was because they didnt hav enough spare parts. My instant reaction was to say to him, "but couldnt boieng make the parts?" he said "yes but the F-111 is to old."

Bullcrap the F-111 is to old its better than the peice of crap JSF

thank you

[mrsurfingtarp]

@ColdWarWarriors yes

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

Yes it is, I am not 100% sure on this however, when this happened I believe that the RAAF was still doing them and it went to Boeing soon after, correct me if I am wrong. But they switched to them around a similar time to this incident, I thought.

[ColdWarWarriors]

@macdonaldjohnstonfan Isn't the RAAF's maintenance subcontracted to Boeing thesedays and no longer carried out by RAAF personel?

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

This was not a fault with the F111, it was 100% the RAAF Maintenance Department's fault and also not the pilot's fault, the pilot did a remarkable job getting the plane down considering he had not been flying the aircraft for very long. The F111 is way better than the piece of utter rubbish, JSF. The JSF is a cheap mans F22, because apparently the F22 is too secret, even for an ally!

[macdonaldjohnstonfan]

The F111 was a good aircraft, however the problem for them now is getting spare parts and as the planes get older, they get more expensive to maintain, shame they probably won't keep one for airshows, or a museum piece.

We should have gotten like you said the Su34's or the Eurofighter Typhoon. However, of course, we had to be loyal to the Americans even though they didn't actually have an aircraft to offer us that was a modern equivalent to the F111. JSF, unsafe, utter rubbish.

[ColdWarWarriors]

F111 is cold war tech, no other airforce uses them.

But i agree JSF is junk, RAAF should of bought the Su34 Strike fighter as a replacement for the f111

[grunt182820]

dickhead it was a kid your age that fucked

up not the f1 tosser

[mafiand]

The F111 is not that unreliable and they are far from crap. It mainly stems from us not flying them enough and the usual 'things happen'. When they are flogged harder, like on exercises, they perform exceptionally well. The F111 squadrons on large exercises have often had the highest serviceability rate and dropped less sorties than any other aircraft type involved in that exercise. This includes Red Flag etc. This happens more often than not, even in the last few years.

[greasymonky]

Re Mark Fallon, unapro3, He was NOT hotdogging it back at low level. He was doing a simulated "loft-bomb" delivery which is started using TFR approach, pull-up and release the bomb, then a inverted roll onto the exit heading and descend on TFR. The other comment about the high angle-of-attack stall is not quite correct, the barometric altimeter is not used in the TFR system at low level (below 1500m), it is a radar altimeter that has no QNH input. The height setting is on the TFR control box.