#f-111f

[coldwarairforce]

Parked in a line on a flight line are, from front to back, a 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron F-111F, an 81st Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II, a 525th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-15 Eagle, an 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4E Phantom II, 496th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-5E Tiger II aircraft. 1987.

[usafphantom2]

NF-111A-63-9778-NASA-USAF-MAY70 by Michel Klaveren

[garrand-models]

The image I took and decided to use as my header photo. The 'Lest we forget' memorial at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk in the United Kingdom. Features an F-4 Phantom (modified to look like an F-4D, was originally a RF-4 from RAF Alconbury) an F-15A (from a stateside base made to look like a F-15C) and finally my favorite, and F-111 (originally an F-111E from RAF Upper Heyford, painted like a F-111F which had served at Lakenheath).

Despite being born at a USAF base in the U.K, I was too young to remember RAF Upper Heyford, so Lakenheath has some of my earliest memories of the U.K, and on top of that, it's an all round great base with great Fighter Wing there, the 48th. It was also my dads final base before he retired after 21 years.

[usafphantom2]

48th TFW General Dynamics F-111F 73-0711 by Wing attack Plan R

[usafphantom2]

48th TFW General Dynamics F-111F 73-0711 by Wing attack Plan R

[titanium-rain]

[titanium-rain]

A U.S. Air Force F-111F fighter aircraft from the 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, takes off for a mission in support of Operation Desert Storm. The aircraft is armed with laser-guided bombs. #DesertStorm #DesertShield

[titanium-rain]

Three U.S. Air Force F-111F fighter aircraft and a U.S. Air Force EF-111A Raven aircraft, far right, fly in formation over the desert during Operation Desert Shield. The aircraft are assigned to the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing. #DesertStorm #DesertShield