The War: Trials of the F-l 11

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The other four F-111s carried out a dozen or so successful raids against supply and troop staging areas in North Viet Nam's panhandle. The Air Force has ordered 395 of the swing-wings, but the Navy still does not want the plane. As the Senate Armed Services Committee last week voted to cancel funds for any further development of the naval version, Senator John McClellan, the F-111's leading critic, called the Navy's swing-wing "a dog" in a Senate speech. In the middle of his speech, an aide handed him the bulletin that the first Air Force F-111 was missing in action.