Summary and Key Points: The F-111 Aardvark was the world’s first production variable-sweep-wing aircraft — a Cold War bomber ...

F-111 Aardvark – What Made This Strike Aircraft Such a Legend: The F-111 may have been relegated to retirement more than two decades ago, but its legacy remains in the aviation space today. When the F ...

The Aardvark was the first airplane to incorporate specific design features to make it multirole capable. When it comes to pioneering aircraft in the U.S. military’s history, the F-111 Aardvark ...

The F-111 Aardvark pioneered a variety of new technological innovations for the US Air Force—and proved that they could be combined to make an excellent strike aircraft. The F-111 Aardvark—so named ...

Everyone sings the praises of the A-10 Thunderbolt II, and rightly so. There's something that's eternally cool about a military attack jet that's built more around its cannon than its wings or engine.

The F-111 Aardvark aircraft proved itself to be a dependable mission platform, especially in Operation Desert Storm , when its ability to fly low and fast gave it an advantage. When the United States ...

The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force decided to keep the classic F-111 Aardvark all the way until 2010, yet the US Air Force retired the aircraft in the 1990s, a nearly 20-year disparity which raises ...

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall announced in June that the service’s Next-Generation Air Dominance program has entered engineering and manufacturing development. This transition from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maj. Sandy Marquardt, Capt. Joe Hodges sit in the escape module of their F-111A On March 30, 1968, Maj. Sandy Marquardt and Capt.