F-111 Aardvark

[CINDERS]

This is utter rot I learned of this a while ago but thought would share with the forum.
A sad end to one of the truly great interdiction bombers of their time, there would have been oodles of museums that would have taken an aircraft for display.
What a waste; https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...iG7TG59Q7jUBiA

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[browningautorifle]

I remember those...

[WarPig1976]

Why not just cut them up and melt them down. All that trouble of months of planning, daily meetings, security, geo tabbing it's all pointless. Common sense tells me if the powers that be are that worried about them erase them from the earth. Am I missing something?

[browningautorifle]

Doesn't make sense to me either. Run them through the chipper and smelt them to bar stock. Problem solved. Instead now, they're buried beside the Spitfires...more for us to find.

[CINDERS]

Yes the Burma Spitfires what happened to that lot or is it just a pipe dream....................

[Peter Laidler]

Similar thing happened to the US inventory of US Lend Lease vehicles that we had up until the early 70's. Half tracks, Diamond T's, weasles, DUKW's etc etc. These all had to be disposed of according to rules laid down ears ago. In Germany they all had to go back to US Ordnance dumps at Wiesbaden instead of local disposal at Hamm and in the UK, disposal via specialised sites.

I trust that one of the workers at the disposal site will have cut out one of the RAAF roundels from the F-111fuselages prior to being buried. Then in 70 years time, present it to a museum, like those at the CAF museum nose art murals

[Beerhunter]

When visited the Davis Monthan AFB neat Tucson about ten years ago, there were dozens/hundreds of F111s just sitting there in the desert.

As to handing stuff back. There were two US spec. F4s sitting on the tarmac at RAF Fairford for several years. Apparently we tried to hand them back to the US but over the years the paperwork had got lost. I guess they were part of that batch recovered from Davis Monthan for Falkland Islands AD in the 1980s.

[browningautorifle]

F111s just sitting there in the desert.

Where they'll probably remain for some time.

[Paul S.]

I was told that there is an unused M113 APC in the museum at Puckapunyal with about 10 miles on the clock. The story I got was that a petrol engine version was shipped by mistake, it arrived, off-loaded and inspected only to be ordered shipped back to 'Yank-land'. 'Yank-land' apparently politely declined, and said keep it; we'll ship you the correct diesel engine one at no extra cost.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Common sence is dead and buried right along with those F-111s. RIP.