That was a damn good pilot

REAL TOP GUN FIGHTERS! WHEELS FALLING OFF?

I think the Aussie version of the FIII, with its slightly extended wingspan, gave these guys an outside chance of a safe belly landing

I salute these fine aviators 🇦🇺🫡

Aviate, navigate, communicate,.........we come from the land Down under........RAAF TEAM WORK.....Oink oink

Well, the front fell off.

That’s what happens when you don’t submit PIRRs

I can imagine the reply to your wheel has fallen off! It’s fuckin what!😂🇦🇺🇦🇺 I remember watching them on the news that night and hearing it on the radio at work as it was happening. Amberley was there home base and Brisbane is only a short drive.

So preflight checks could have been more thorough

My dad was a design engineer on the B-58, F-111, and lastly the venerable F-16s. Good job lads landing safely. Cheers to our comrades down under.

Man you all need to upgrade your military what uou all going to do when ww3 breaks out

Love how it's always a team effort.

My dad was part of the technical team that decided on the F111. They were offered a flight in one too. But the first guy who went up looked so sick afterwards, everyone else passed.

CKB Civil is an Australian company that installs the BAK14/12 aircraft arresting systems all over our country. We are so proud that these systems work and save our military RAAF pilots lives. We have supported the Royal Australian Airforce since 1999, and continue to do so to this date. We were at RAAF Amberley when this emergency took place. What a fantastic display of flying by our boys!!!!!!! Glad to finally comment on this incident. CB

Did it rip the hook off?

The most beautiful looking jet fighter ever and fantastic flying (well, landing!) from the guys who fortunately wore their brown underpants that day.

2023: I was stationed at Cannon AFB New Mexico, TAC in 1973-1974. I was a power lineman and I also maintained the airfield power and lighting. Loved being on the flight line. We were an F-111 training base. Beautiful and Great aircraft. Great piloting, great team and safe landing. Thank You & best Regards

Excelente aterrizaje 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋🇦🇷

Crew daug here 77th tfs Upper Heyford 1989

BRAVOoo for the pilots!!!BRAVOO Aussie EAGELS✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🫵💯🫵💯🫵💯🫵💯🌿🤣🌿🤣🌿🌿🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻💯✨🙏✌️

No freaking cheap foam ??? for saving multi million aircraft?

You want the RAAF on your side.

I used to work on them too (Electric shop + some ECS / MA). I heard when they were being assigned to their first US base, they arrived broke from the factory!

This crew had very limited experience, yet handle this very abnormal event with total professionalism. Unfortunately the aircraft was written off.

Saw a F111A land at Mtn Home AFB in the early 80s belly land . Aircraft had very minimal damage.

They buried the lead. Just skip forward to 5:42

There's one reason the UK never went for the F-111...their pilots want the right hand seat.

As I said before, I witnessed the previous landing of an F-111, an F model, with its main gear door jammed not allowing the maingear to open, they came in with a slightly exaggerated angle-of-attack and their nose gear down to engage the barrier cable. They were exiting the aircraft as it was coming to a stop. Did much less damage to the aircraft than these Australian Pilots. You make an issue out of the younger Pilots. That was the perfect people to do such a thing. I'm more experienced pilot might have tried to do something a little bit different. These guys were young enough to just do what they needed to do.

Very proud.... AIM HIGH

Damn, that navigator bolted and kept going, how about checking on your junior pilot still in the aircraft

Awesome landing

thank god it came off after take off and not during... God and country!

It's a ripper mini-doc this, and remains so many years later. Definitely brown trousers time for all involved. I remember sitting next to Luke Warner for an EW course back in the late '90's.

The plane was written off. That was an expensive day. After the belly landing the aircraft had never been repaired and its fin and rudder are preserved at RAAF Base Amberley.

This is the best looking jet in existence IMO

Hi, helped to restore 068 about four years ago and put on display here inBrenham,Tex.

Repaired FB-111A's in the 90's. Amazing capabilities and difficult to maintain. At altitude and angles it would outrun a Mig-25... for a bit... parts would fall off over Mach 3.1, but not it's role as "whispering death". These and The Bones were some amazing aircraft.

My grandfather was a major in the airforce and flew this plane through out Korea and Vietnam his plane is now on display is my home town. Miss him very much I wish I could ask him about that cool fuel dump they could ignite

Magnificent gentleman!

Damn!! Great flying boys!!!

In 92 (I think) the F1-11 from Australia came to RIAT in the UK. Great show, but you realised it took a lot of looking after with the mechanics with tables of tools at its parking spot.

Lmfao

He said they had fuel behind them. Curious about why they didn't dump it before landing?

When in doubt, give an Aussie a shout

Ardvark !

When I was at Mountain Home AFB, F-111A's were transferred from Nellis AFB. Some flew directly from NAFB to MHAFB on "circle-red "X"s. And some came to MHAFB on flat-bed trucks. Prior to this the F-111F's went tp Lakenheath AB in England.

Our Ausie boys are top notch. ❤ miss seeing the F111s in our skys

I know some dudes that were happy

There was a 17 yo Maggie in the USA solo pilot who was by herself just starting her solo had her right landing gear falling off on take off. ATC, Instructor pilot helped her down safely. Minor damage to aircraft after her plane shortly after landing dug into the runway and off to the right and she walked away safely! This is a pretty amazing emergency landing and it is great to see it went well!!

I actually made the gyroscope housing on the belly targeting pod for that aircraft. We think it was a prototype because I only made 6 of them. I was a third-year Apprentice at the time but I was very good at Manuel machine work and at CNC Machining centers. I had a little Haas indexer and a kitamura mycenter 1. It took a lot of profiling since we did not have cad-cam back then a lot of math.