The benefit of the sweep-wing is that the aircraft can take on a different shape, and hence different flight characteristics, mid-flight. Should the F-111 need to generate lift and/or drag ...

When the F-111 aircraft first took to the skies during the Cold War, it represented several “firsts” for the U.S. Air Force. Notably, the legendary platform was capable of performing in ...

The F-111 was created in the 1960s to help establish American air dominance by producing a multi-role supersonic combat aircraft capable of flying below enemy radar. However, the fighter jet ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...