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F-111 Aadvark

Interesting video. The F111 served us well and added some nice 20x102 (M103) Australian made cartridges to my collection.
 
The F-111 was an amazing aircraft and was in service with the RAAF from 1973 to 2010. It was always popular at air shows with the dump and burn fuel display. When decommissioned, some were donated to air museums, but the rest were unfortunately buried in landfill.
 

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HAZORD said:
There should be a law to prevent crap like that!
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Apparently, like the WW2 lend-lease agreement, it was a condition of purchase that the airframes were to be disposed of at end of service - they were not allowed to be sold or privately acquired. There were 23 airframes buried at that particular landfill site, but up to 13 complete planes were donated to various museums.
 
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