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When: 1st April 2017 to 2nd July 2017 Host: trickyrich Ok there seems to be a wee bit of interest shown in this on the F-16 STGB where I mentioned it, so here it is. It's an aircraft thats quite forgotten but actually had quite a long life, over 40 years active service, even thought it's gestation was a bit pain full and during this time she acquired a a bit of a bad reputation. She wasn't the sales success that was hoped for it with the RAAF being the only other operator. The RAF nearly had them but as usual politics kill this along with a lot of other projects, home grown and otherwise. So operator choices will be a wee bit slim! Variants will we have the A's through to the F's, the FB-111A/F-111G, the EF-111 Raven (also known as the "Electric Fox" and "Spark Vark"), plus some NASA F-111 TACT specials. Plus there was the F-111B Naval Air Defence version and the F-111K for the RAF. For this build the F-111B will be allowed as it was produced but it needs to be in it's test colour schemes. The F-111K...well two were on the production line when they were cancelled (went on to be used as test aircraft), so it was nearly there, so I would be happy for it to be included ONLY I if it was done in it's promotional colour scheme...no WhatIf squadron colours. There are a few pictures around but other info is a little bit harder to find...a real challenge for some one (same with the F-111B). Of cause as a Ex-Pig Fixer I have a real soft spot for this aircraft having working on them with 6 Sqn so for me a mid 80's version...maybe the recon version if I want a challenge. Models, well there are quite a few around of varying vintages. So here's a chance to salute a very unique aircraft with an interesting history. Ok list time.... 1, trickyrich - Host 2, Caerbannog 3, Knight_Flyer 4, mungo1974 5, Antoine 6, Jabba 7, Lex77 8, snapper_city 9, TrojanThunder 10, Ghostbase 11, Andrew 12, mirageiv 13, Rob G 14, Mark Turk 15, S5 modeller 16, -Neu- 17, Arniec 18, Bill Ficner 19, Ronan71 20, gingerbob 21, swat11 22, PhamtomBigStu 23, Pappy 24, exdraken 25, Navy Bird 26, Tim Moff 27, vvpelt68 28, Dermo245 29, vesthepes 30, Tony Tiger66 31, HansReggelsen 32, spaddad 33, Dazey 34, Cammer625 35, Giogio N 36, PaulR 37, helios16v 38, neil5208 39, Mountain goat 40, Robert 41, Balloo 42, Muzz 43, Hewy 44, 45,