File:F-111B launch from USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) 1968.jpg

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Description A U.S. Navy General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B (BuNo 151974) being launched from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) in July 1968. It was the only F-111B to perform carrier operations after completing arrestor proving tests at the Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland (USA), in February 1968. It crash landed at NAS Point Mugu, California (USA), on 11 October 1968 and was subsequently scrapped.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 2011.003.299.006
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