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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]
All F-18D were built at St. Louis, and then all F-18C were assembled in Finland. Delivery of the aircraft started in November 1995 and ended in August 2000. [79] The Hornet replaced the MiG-21bis and Saab 35 Draken in Finnish service. The Finnish Hornets were initially to be used only for air defense, hence the F-18 designation.
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On Open Cockpit Day, some of the museum's static aircraft will be open for exploring inside. Karly Krouse (left) 5, and her sister Layla Krause, 8, inside the cockpit of an aircraft. 11 a.m.-4 p.m ...
The most visible difference between a CF-18 and a U.S. F-18 is the 0.6-megacandela night identification light. This spotlight is mounted in the gun loading door on the port side of the aircraft. Some CF-18s have the light temporarily removed, but the window is always in place. Also, the underside of the CF-18 features a painted "false canopy". [10]
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F18, F-18 or F.XVIII may refer to: Transportation and military. McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, an American all-weather carrier-capable multirole fighter jet