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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). Designed by McDonnell Douglas and Northrop , the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and ...
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]
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 General Electric F414 is an American afterburning turbofan engine in the 22,000-pound (98 kN) thrust class produced by GE Aerospace (formerly GE Aviation). The F414 originated from GE's widely used F404 turbofan, enlarged and improved for use in the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
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The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter production line will shut down in two years. The Super Hornet, developed in the 1990s as a jumbo version of the original F/A-18C Hornet, is the U.S ...
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, an American all-weather carrier-capable multirole fighter jet Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, a more advanced derivative of the F/A-18 Hornet; F-18 (Michigan county highway), US; Fokker F.XVIII, a 1932 Dutch airliner; HMS Zulu, a 1937 British Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer
An F/A-18E Super Hornet launching off the flight deck of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Isaiah B. Goessl The air-to-air missile range ...