Behold McNamara’s Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) fiasco. To think that he thought they could have made an interceptor/fighter out of the F-111, and a carrier-based one on top of that. Grumman, as the “naval” aircraft builder par excellence, was the right choice to joint General Dynamics in the development of the F-111B, but miracles only come once in a while. Gladly, the people of the Bethpage company were clever enough to take the right things of this dismal failure to produce their iconic Tomcat.
They sure got this ad right.
Meanwhile at St. Louis.
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In the first Gulf war, the 111s took out more Iraqi tanks then the Abrams, Apache or the Marine Tow Cobra’s! Not bad for a plane that had no name while in service!
It was never a intrinsically bad aircraft.
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