HobbyBoss 1/48 General Dynamics FB-111 Aardvark. Tiger Meet 1978 built model kit.

FB-111 fuel dump visible from space?!.... At Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum the engines in our FB-111 have been removed, but the fuel dump valve is still there, and there are some great stories about it. Maj. Gen. Ray O'Mara (Ret.) explains in Behind the Wings of the FB-111. Watch the full video at Wings Over the Rockies YouTube channel or at the link in bio If you took off and lost an engine and you had fuel tanks on the wings, you would want to lighten the aircraft before you came

The FB-111 had a unique escape capsule.... Maj. Gen. Ray O'Mara (Ret.) explains in a new Behind the Wings video on the FB-111. Full video on Wings Over the Rockies YouTube channel or at the link in bio. This was a very comfortable cockpit. There wasn't a whole lot of room for storage, so you had to be efficient. The unique characteristic of this aircraft at that time was the ejection capsule. We had a capsule which extended from just in front of the windscreen all along to about halfway up the f