Originally Posted by
UAL T38 Phlyer
The reason the F-111B (The Navy airplane) looks "chubby" is interesting. It actually is dimensionally the same as the Air Force airplane except the nose
forward of the windscreen is shorter.
They had to do that to make the fuselage short enough to fit on the carrier's hangar-deck elevator.
And that makes it look like it has baby-fat.
Yes, I realize that and had to spend a few minutes trying to find an actual picture of the 'sky-pig'.