Pigs will fly no more!
I can remember my first ever model airplane because it was the General Dynamics F-111 in USAF livery and around the time the RAAF was buying a fleet of them and soon changed it’s USAF name from the F 111 Aardvark to rename them affectionately as ” The Pig”.
My model turned out to be a plane crash after I used Tarzan’s Grip instead of modeling glue ending up with the pilot stuck fast to my fingers and having to be removed in the day surgery at the hospital.
My next encounter with “the Pig” was 30 years later when I was on assignment last week for the SMH to shoot some pictures of “The Pig” up close, they are in the middle of their last ever war games and will be retired in December and the Pig will fly no more
Though not ever used in combat this one was well and truly blooded after I left a fair bit of DNA on one of it’s many pointy bits ( see below) , The LAC I was with ” Oh you gotta be careful there, that one gets most blokes about your height !”.
