TAA853 KSEA-PHLI

[CBreuer]

Yes, and obviously an unbeaten range if I recall our flight from Maputo to Bissau correct.

yep, also great about it, it has a ferry range with external tanks of 4.200mi at M.80, and with my fuel burn which seemed to be on the numbers with 1.800lbs/eng/hr that reflects reality pretty good.
Off course this is a totally different story on an attack run with weapon loadout and when going supersonic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-111

4.200 miles are not equal to Nautical Miles. Therefore you should have ran out of fuel just prior arrival, especially that the ferry range probably is described by carrying 6 external 600 gal. fuel tanks. So the ferry range is about 3700 NM, but we flew at least 3763 NM at M 0.82 and you had to make excessive use of A/B thrust to catch up.
But nevertheless the F-111 still has some benefits among other aircrafts. I wonder how powerful the F-111 might have been with newer engines, like the US Navy did with the F-14D 'Tomcat'.
But we are drifting 'off Topic'.