Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "The INSANE 1950s British Nuclear Bomber With No Tail - Vickers Swallow" video.

  1. ​@obi-ron Yup. The F-111 infamously had numerous defects - mostly regarding the engine intakes, folding wings & ejection system - because General Dynamics had taken Wallis's ideas, but neither understood them very well, nor did anywhere near enough testing to iron out the bugs. Hence F-111's crashing due to wing failure, engine surge in the badly designed air intakes, pilots narrowly avoiding death due to defects in the ejection system... and more 🤦‍♂️ .
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  2. @gp33music41  Any substantiation forthcoming there lad? (I after all cited examples of defects in and failures of the TFX)
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  3. ^ Translation; you have nothing but vacuous diatribe and outright lies 🥱🤡 . The US after all: • Didn't invent swing wings • The TFX was crap because neither the USAF nor USN wanted it to begin with; it was a political imposition from Robert Macnamara, a typical desk jockey that famously made the Russians laugh heartedly with his painfully inaccurate predictions of guns on fighters, and is infamous for believing the nonsensical notion that one aircraft can do everything, a false assumption only those who've never served nor possess real world engineering background unironically believe. Good luck discrediting Barnes Wallis BTW, because unlike most of the halfwits at General Dynamics that farted out the TFX his track record is as long as it was successful; even Star Wars ended up being partially inspired by a film based on his most famous weapon 😏👌 .
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  4. Good video, on a topic not discussed often enough really. The TFX (F-111) infamously had numerous defects - mostly regarding the engine intakes, folding wings & ejection system - because General Dynamics had taken Wallis's ideas, but neither understood them very well, nor did anywhere near enough testing to iron out the bugs. Hence F-111's crashing due to wing failure (both metal fatigue of the wing itself and folding mechanism failure), engine surge in the badly designed air intakes, pilots narrowly avoiding death due to illogical defects in the ejection system... and so~ much more 🤦‍♂️ . The aircraft found some secondary roles it could do well, but its numerous shortcomings in everything else thankfully gave the USN cause to terminate the B variant they'd been imposed on with but'd never wanted, and the USAF would eventually get a Tactical Bomber that actually worked as-designed in the form of the Rockwell B1B Lancer. Thankfully the F14 took a lot of useful lessons from the TFX, and - apart from the occasional wing malfunction and the aircraft's first engine iteration being rife with issues - had a highly productive service life.
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