While most American military aircraft are given names that connote athleticism, virility, hostility, or prowess (i.e., Lighting, Raptor, Poseidon, Thunderchief, Mustang, Apache, Talon, and Sabre), ...

The benefit of the sweep-wing is that the aircraft can take on a different shape, and hence different flight characteristics, mid-flight. Should the F-111 need to generate lift and/or drag ...