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Old 23rd Oct 2022, 12:04
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Shaft109
 
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F111 near departure

"August 1993 at RAF Alconbury. An F-111 came roaring in from the east with wings fully swept, rolled into a hard right turn and entered serious wing rock, almost departing. The Tornado mate with whom I was talking looked horrified. On the second display day the pilot used a more modest wing angle and didn't pull quite so hard!"

There's an interesting Aircrew Interview podcast with Jeff Guinn (sp?) about the F111 tendency to depart before a stall or even limiting alpha due to the length of the nose / fwd fuselage moment overcoming the vertical stabiliser. Also he mentioned that the same problem gave issues with the tailerons not being able to roll level after a ridge crossing, causing a few to crash. Spoilers inhibited with wing sweep angle I think.
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