"Denyav" wrote in message
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So I'm not really sure what your point is. I don't have a doctorate
in
aerodynamics so perhaps you could spell
out exactly what the supposed issue is with the location of the wing
pivot points?

F111 only modern fighter in history with significant (supersonic)
trim drag
problems and the cause of problem is the pivot point,which somehow?
transmuted
from german original design.

Ok, I vaguely remember hearing some mention of this.

What GD designers did not know was that the German swing wing research
was
limited to subsonic regime and consequently all german swing wing
designs were
inherently subsonic designs.

Ok.

This flaw was corrected in f14 design and f14 has none of the f111
drag
problems.
Of course the apperance of significant supersonic drag problems in an
aircraft
designed as long range supersonic interdictor was a major design
problem.

Doesn't seem to have had much impact in our useage of it. Long range
strike is the
aircrafts forte and it's still tasked for that now. There was talk at
the time that we
should have bought the F4's (which we leased whilst waiting for the
F111's to get
into full production) but considering the value we have gotten from the
F111 it's
pretty obvious that would have been the wrong choice. The govt of the
day copped
a lot of flak over the F111, but 30 years in service seems to have
justified their decision
to buy it. I hope we are half as lucky with the F35 if/when we
eventually get it.
It's possible they changed the F111 mission profile slightly to
accomodate the drag issue,
but I'm not in a position to give an authoritative answer.
As a matter of interest I will ask someone that would know and see if I
can find out.
In short, with our without the drag issue you mention, it doesn't seem
to have bothered
us much if at all.

Regards

The CO