The aircraft was retired in 1996 and replaced by the F-15E Strike Eagle. F-111 Aardvark: The Multi-Role Bomber That Redefined ... Dorado Canyon” airstrikes on Libya. Taking off from Royal ...
A new Sky series on the 1988 disaster has again put the spotlight on the case, which has divided opinion for decades.
Training for Operation Tidal Wave took place in Libya, where airmen from ... off the ground — that gunners on the bombers had to aim up at anti-aircraft guns on the roofs of buildings.