[Cliff Dweller]

Come on 'Dog.. for the AF it's tactical therefore fighter.

Remember when the "Original Tomcat" was asked if more thrust would enable the F-111 to operate off Aircraft Carriers? His reply was to the effect that "... There isn't enough thrust in all of Christendom to allow that platform to fly off a carrier..."

[A.A. Cunningham]

It would have been a dog but sea trials on the Coral Sea proved it could be done.

[MediaMole]

If a C-130 can take off and land on a carrier, an F-111 certainly can.

[Pukin Dog]

Admiral Connelly is a hero of mine.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"... There isn't enough thrust in all of Christendom to allow that platform to fly off a carrier..."

But then they put those GE engines in and ....Whoopeeee!

[El Gato]

Remember when the "Original Tomcat" was asked if more thrust would enable the F-111 to operate off Aircraft Carriers? His reply was to the effect that "... There isn't enough thrust in all of Christendom to allow that platform to fly off a carrier..."

The engines were the weak point of both the F-111B and the F-14A. Pretty much the same engines in fact. None the less, an F-111B did conduct test flight ops off of the Coral Sea.

F-111B 1510974 In late 1968, became the only F-111 to perform carrier operations on the USS Coral Sea.

F-111B used TF-30-P12 engines. F-14A used the TF30-P-414A. F-111A used TF30-P-3

The F-14 was designed for more powerful engines, and latter the F-14B and D got them as the F110-GE-400 replaced the P&W TF-30s of the -A model.

The final version of the F-111 used 25,000 lb thrust engines as opposed to the 18,500 lb versions used on the -A model.