Interesting 400 MPH VTOL Variant

Under development at DARPA:

Story here.

Australia Buried Its F-111's

From this-

To this-

Kinda sad, no? Makes me think that as the plane knelt down someone put a bullet behind its cockpit.

From Urban Ghosts:

November 2011 was a rough month for aviation enthusiasts in Australia. Over the course of four days from the 21st to the 24th, the Royal Australian Air Force elected to bury 23 of its retired F-111 strike jets that hadn’t been selected for preservation. This article details their final mission – via low loader to the Swanbank landfill outside Ipswich, Queensland.