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The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation).
The Super Hornet is an enlarged redesign of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.The wing and tail configuration trace its origin to a Northrop prototype aircraft, the P-530, c. 1965, which began as a rework of the lightweight Northrop F-5E (with a larger wing, twin tail fins and a distinctive leading edge root extension, or LERX). [4]
Capt. Brian Kesselring salutes from the cockpit of his F/A-18 Super Hornet. The film is the second IMAX documentary to feature the Blue Angels, following Greg MacGillivray's The Magic of Flight (1996). [10] Creating a film for IMAX theaters required larger cameras. It was a challenge for the film crew to find places to put cameras because they ...
A Navy fighter jet made a special landing at the Erie International airport, creating a loud noise that spurred interest from Millcreek neighborhoods.
The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet (official military designation CF-188) is a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) variant of the American McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft. In 1980, the F/A-18 was selected as the winner of the New Fighter Aircraft Project competition to replace CF-104 Starfighter , CF-101 Voodoo and the CF-116 ...
The Super Hornet, developed in the 1990s as a jumbo version of the original F/A-18C Hornet, is the U.S. Navy’s main fighter jet. Barring an order from India, Boeing will pivot manpower and ...
The team flew the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet for 34 years from 1986 through 2020. The team currently flies the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet. In August 2018, Boeing was awarded a contract to convert nine single-seat F/A-18E Super Hornets and two F/A-18F two-seaters for Blue Angels use.
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