Always great to hear from Jeff. IMO his are your best interviews.

Three F-111's in transit to somewhere via a USAF base I was stationed at put on a cool little show upon arrival by flying in a fairly close line with their wings swept to varying degrees, most swept on the lead, least swept on the rear.

I love these podcasts! Jeff does a great job! Wish you had him on more often! I love the f 111! Keep up the good work! Enjoy learning about the aardvark!

I was an Instrument and autopilot tech on the F111D from 1971 to 1974. I would like to hear from Jeff what he thought were the most common problems or system failures.

Nice work as always Mike, I always hit play on a Jeff Guinn ep as soon as I see it posted. He and Okie Nance are my all-time favourite and most re-listened to AI guests.

@Aircrewinterview

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

Thanks, Mike for the interview, and thanks Jeff for your stories and your service...peace from California

@Aircrewinterview

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear you enjoyed it :)

Jeff's back!!!!!

Any model of the F-111 is such a sexy aircraft. The F-111F at National Museum of The United States Air Force from the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing is what started my passion in aviation.

@patrickflohe7427

2 жыл бұрын

70-2390….I used to work on her occasionally.

Always upvote Jeff!

While stationed at RAF Upper Heyford (‘73-75) we had a 111 declare an IFE and come in during a heavy rain storm with no flaps or slats. He did have his wings fully forward but his airspeed at touchdown was incredible. I watched from the doorway of the crash fire station as he passed by. As I recall he had to use the runoff-end barrier cable to catch him because of his speed and the inches of rain on the runway. On a side note - it took some getting used to on base during flight ops when the planes were taking off due to the volume level of those afterburners; from a mile away the sound pressure was so loud we had to yell to be heard by whoever we were talking to.

I could listen to Geoff all day long

Don't want to be picky but Geoff missed out the Su-17/22 and the Tu-160 on that list he reeled off. Great video as usual.

Listened as usual while having breakfast. Enjoyed it even had the little extra of background radio comms cutting in occasionally 😊 Thanks Mike and Jeff Looking forward to you getting to the states and sending us some videos from there Mike 👍

@Aircrewinterview

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

Beautiful jet, along with the tornado 🇺🇲🇬🇧

How did I miss this? I want Jeff to do a YT series on his Volvo 1800.

excellent - much appreciate these technical histories!

I was the dcc on 68079 for a few years and was with him during desert shield/storm. good times..

Fascinating. Learning a lot.

I forgot to add a wingsweep story. I was part of a four ship going to Mtn Home AFB's Saylor Creek Range. The plan was tactical formation, splitting up for multi-axis pop to 15º dive bomb. Pop-to-dive is a maneuver (very roughly described) involving approaching the target with it offset at about 10 or 2 o'clock. With the target about 5-6 miles away, pulling 4Gs to 20º climb, then, at pull-down altitude (target altitude plus 2,000 feet), doing a 4G 120º bank wing over to roll out on attack heading. To help get the airplane on the proper dive path, I used Electronically Caged Pipper Placement, which moved the pipper to boresight. Using various arithmetics, if the pilot moved the caged pipper to the target, and held it there until a specific altitude based upon planned dive angle, the plane would fly a curved path to the proper point in space. Uncaging the pipper at that point would allow normal tracking to the weapons release altitude. Why all that numbing detail? Because if the delivery is planned at 35º wingsweep, and due to a 540 knot ingress, which argued for a 54º wingsweep, I pilot I happen to know very well, forgot left the wings at 54 for the pop manuever - the result being a significantly higher than planned angle of attack. And, ultimately, "Lead, unbelievable at six" as my score.

Jeff needs a youtube channel like Ward Carroll

The last comments are as telling as all of them good guy with great knowledge

Variable geometry compromises very well explained. Going from ground attack to an air superiority variant never works. Oops, Tornado.....

Class Act!Wish they gave him a Strike Eagle to fly so we would listen to even more stories

Jeff...when we were low level, flaps and slats were no in the equation....spoilers were the ability to increase the roll...wings 45 allowed spoilers to increase roll

The Viggen lost three aircraft to wing failures right after it had entered service and it's from the same generation as the F111.