Eventually, the plane's many issues were resolved. The first redesigned F-111 would finally be fully tested and approved between 1972 and 1973. Despite its rough start, the F-111 would become one ...
An overview of the F-111 and its history When an American CIA U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union by a newly developed surface-to-air missile in the 1960s, U.S. officials ...