JDW:
The RAAF earlier this year temporarily grounded its F-111 fleet, following the discovery by Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation of an outer-wing fatigue problem affecting the aircraft. This development has led to a decision to conduct a wing-replacement programme using parts drawn from ex-USAF F-111Fs stored at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona (JDW 7 August).
I am willing to be corrected, but as I understand it, the RAAF F-111C shared the larger wing of the FB-111A of the USAF (as did the F-111Gs later procured). This wing has a wingspan of 70ft and 4 hard points per wing. There aint, as they say, none left.
The F-111F wings are smaller, at 63ft wingspan, with only 3 hard points per wing.
Last edited by ORAC; 6th Sep 2002 at 21:53.