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Farewell to the "PIG"

EF-111 is also credited with the first USAF kill of Desert Storm. On the first night of Desert Storm while being chased by a French-built Iraqi F-1 Mirage, the Raven pilot scrammed at top speed in afterburner while heading down hill and engaged the TFR system with the autopilot to only 100 feet above the pitch-black desert floor. The Raven pulled up the Mirage didn’t !! EF-111A 66-0016 , is now a “gate-guard” at Cannon AFB.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forum...l-victory-over-another-aircraft-(1st-and-only)
 
Some neat footage along with gear up arrested landing. Show was from back in 07', looks like it may be worth watching.

 
Flying Toaster said:
Some neat footage along with gear up arrested landing. Show was from back in 07', looks like it may be worth watching.

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Cool video. Pretty ballsy method for taking a fly in arrestment, but I guess you do what you have to do given the circumstances (doubt they had a paddles :) )
 
That was some interesting footage of the gear up landing. It appears as though the arresting gear shortened the "rollout" compared to similar videos where it wasn't used. Awesome find.
 
A Vig used to "dump and burn" as part of dependents day cruise airshows. The announcer would say that an enemy was headed for the ship and that the F-4 were attacking him. He'd then say that the F-4 had fired aa missle and when the Vig started trailing fire, he'd yell that they got him.
 
blackbart22 said:
A Vig used to "dump and burn" as part of dependents day cruise airshows. The announcer would say that an enemy was headed for the ship and that the F-4 were attacking him. He'd then say that the F-4 had fired aa missle and when the Vig started trailing fire, he'd yell that they got him.
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BlackBart, was t*at on our CONNIE *adventure" in '67? If so, I t*ink t*at it would *ave been t*e RVA*-9 Owls.
BzB
 
I think it was between the '67 cruise and the 68' cruise, probably RVAH-5. I launched the particpants off the waist with the bow area packed with wives and kiddies. Not a comfortable evolution, but a hell of a show.
 
jmcquate said:
Aardvark was a nickname for it's long nose. To the best of my knowledge, the F-111 was the only USAF aircraft without an offical name.
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Not entirely true. While called the 'Ardvark' unoffically its whole career at the -111's retirement ceremony they officially named it. OK a day late and a dollar short but finally official.
 
Stitch 462 said:
Not entirely true. While called the 'Ardvark' unoffically its whole career at the -111's retirement ceremony they officially named it. OK a day late and a dollar short but finally official.
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I did not know that. How adout the EF?
 
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