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  • in reply to: Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. #2262614
    F-18Growler
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    US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet Taxing at LIMA Airshow.

    http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/NXHxFy2xjQA/maxresdefault.jpg

    in reply to: Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. #2262761
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    Found some more Prototype Hornets. There pretty rare to find. 🙂

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    http://www.cloud9photography.us/Military-Aviation-Photography/Flying-Military-Airplane/Flying-US-Navy-F-18-Hornet-Jet/i-9kgXb6F/0/M/McDonnell%20Douglas%20TF-18A%20-%20USN%2000002%20McDonnell%20Douglas%20TF-18A%20US%20Navy%20160781%20prototype%20Official%20McDonnell%20Douglas%20Photograph%20produced%20by%20Cloud%209%20Photography-M.jpg

    in reply to: Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. #2262800
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    thanks just putting f-18 was better.
    was quite nice when it first came out.. then quite envious when our neighboring country got some hornets and we were stuck with crap.

    No prob Y-20, just helping around ya know ;). Anyways they bought some Hornets beacuse they were cheaper, maintainable and reliable to operate. I just can’t belive no Supers have been ordered lately, i mean com’on seriously? The older legacy Hornets are too old and not suited for the 21st century war. But the Super Hornet hasn’t been that successful in the aircraft market industry. I guess they’ll buy them old Hornets. Member when the Marines said they’ll get some Supers? Then they said they were worried about the Supers operational cost so they said that they’ll stick with the Hornet not the Super Hornet. 🙁 But the Marines are going to get their lagacys replaced buy the F-35 Strike Fighter with its STOVL version. But although the Super Hornet is competing into Brasils FX-2 program which are the finals, Rafale, Eurofighter, Super Hornet, and Gripen NG. So we’ll see what happens tommarrow or July.

    in reply to: Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. #2262840
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    hornet picture request:

    a long time ago as a youth
    the Hornet was just being tested and there were two in completely white color.
    one that was white with blue tipped tail, and the other with red tipped tail. these must’ve been prototypes or something
    but I can’t find it. googling prototype f/a-18 just gets me the YF-17, which it is not.

    here’s a small picture of the red one

    http://www.milavia.net/aircraft/fa-18/fa-18_his3.jpg

    Hmmm… Mabey you should put F-18 into F/A-18 prototype. I got a little bit of photos from the SuperHornet/Hormet prototypes. Here’s a Super Hornet prototype with Red and White colors during its flight testing around 1998.

    http://innov8tivedesigns.com/rcgroups/F-18-6.jpg

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    They’ve come along way in such a short amount of time to manufacture their own fighters such as the J-10, J-20 and J-31 which have the potential to be very capable platforms, especially the latter two. A bit unfair to say they’re not any good, even when they’re so early in testing.

    Yeah, they haven’t recently peen that much as a proven platform on those J-Series aircraft. But neither have been into war. Their new J-20 craft is their living fantasy aircraft which looks ugly in that matter. If you haven’t played games from Japan/China you’ll see those fantasy aircrafts. They remind me of the new J-20 5th Gen fighter.

    in reply to: Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. #2262855
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    http://michaeltuuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/20100327_kingsville_0138-edit.jpg

    F-18Growler
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    you gotta be careful with people that use aircraft names as their user name..
    oh wait…

    LOL 😉

    F-18Growler
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    😉

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    But, but, what if they build an SU-27, with all F-18 superhornet electronics (only with bigger aesa rader and bigger, well everything)
    Baah, since both planes are decades old, it wouldnt be worth it anyway 😛

    Well they can only depend on what they want to do with it. China hasn’t recently created some good fighter platforms. But there going advanced with the Flanker series platforms which they are ongoing to make. They have the J-15 and J-11 which isn’t a known craft in the china fighter platforms. So we don’t know what they’ll do with that.

    F-18Growler
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    O really? I always get annoyed with the threads about tornado, F-35 and Eurofighter. Does that make sense?

    Nothing you say makes any sense….ever.

    Your simple inability to properly use the English language ensures that. There are people on this forum from far outside the United States who are far more adept at using the language than you are….this causes me great concern as a fellow American citizen….

    As for China copying foreign designs, it doesn’t surprise me. Their aviation industry has been built largely off the ideas provided by foreign designs as they continue to develop their own technologies and ideas. In all honesty, some of the stuff they have managed to come up with has managed to take on a life of its own despite being heavily based or influences on foreign designs. The Q-5 in particular comes to mind…it’s a MiG-19 at heart, but it has evolved into so much more over the years. I’m a bit biased as I rather like the Q-5, but you must admit it that despite its Russian origins, it has managed to become a symbol of Chinese airpower over the years.

    Can you please get out of here? I don’t like you anyway, you say racist things about me. I’m 25 and i know Spanish much more than English. I see your 29 and that makes me think that you must like to mess with some people who are Hispanic. Thats very terrible when you say judgemental things about me. Your American, im not american so what does that make you think? That your smarter than me? Seriously you need to stop with your paragraphs about my culture or the you don’t know English thing because to me it’s Embarrasing for other members to read.

    Please my advice is to not talk to me if you continue with your crappy little… “Learn Your English Grammar” replys. If you have any questions feel free to PM me. You should respect people who are not from the United States, not just write with your crappy little paragraphs about my English grammar.

    Steven

    in reply to: Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. #2263679
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    NASA F/A-18 HARV

    http://www.wallpaperax.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/F-18-HARV.jpg

    F-18Growler
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    They can build Su-27 copies, why would they want to make a Hornet analogue?

    Have no idea…. :rolleyes:

    F-18Growler
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    You are. If a thread has a name of a particular aircraft then it’s obviously about that aircraft, you’re a lost cause if you can’t figure that out. As for Typhoon, I tend to reply to people that mention it before I do, not that I wanted to in the first place. If I wanted to talk about it first I’d go to it’s dedicated thread.

    You’ve got a lot to learn.

    Educate yourself. 😉 Really ok you are getting childish on this thread. Raise your standards please, anyways i don’t want to talk about this anymore. Really chill Lightning it’s my standard opinion doesn’t mean you have to get crucial at me.

    Steven

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    So why did you post images of the F/A-18 on a Thread dedicated to Tornado then, or most other threads for that matter? If you just want to post images of your beloved fighter and have no interest what so ever in other aircraft, so be it. Just stop whining and moaning & reporting people when other aircraft are brought up in discussions. Get a grip!

    Whose whining and moaning? Not me, i was trying to make him happy that’s all. The Tornado thread i didn’t knew it was about a amazing Tornado load. You mostly talk about YOUR beloved Eurofighter plane. This isn’t a school neither a talk on our favorite planes but it’s just that guy was tired of hearing the word Hornet/SuperHornet.

    in reply to: Your Favorite Hornet/Super Hornet pics. #2264090
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    http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace-insight/files/2012/12/Super-Hornet-3-web.jpg

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