Gloster Meteor T.7 Walkaround Gallery

Gloster Meteor T.7 A77-707 RAAF ANAM 2008

Meteor trainer out in the open at Moorabbin Air Museum (ANAM) in 2008. The RAAF is the only non-US operator of the F-111. Due for retirement prior to 2010, the Pigs have been in Australian service since late 1970, so they will have served us well for 30–40 years. The F-111’s long range, low level, high speed attack capability has been ideally suited to Australias vast distances and relative isolation. It gave us a deterent capability that will be sorely missed. The RAAF has operated a total of 43 Pigs in A, C and G configurations. This includes a batch of 15 low-hour USAF F-111Gs in 1992. The F-111s are to replaced, eventually, with JSF 35s, and in the meantime, with F/A18E Super Hornets.