F/A-18 Hornet | The American Twin Engine, Supersonic Combat Jet Made By McDonnell Douglas

after a massive project consideration Australia went with the 18 over the F16 in the 70s and now have added super hornet despite having no carriers. the 35 is coming in despite not meeting essential requirements massive issues and cost increases. this is why we train with the USN on developing new aircrafy coimg on line the growlers are particularly important and housed where the F111C was housed for decades at Amberley not with the other fighter jocks.

A7 pilot James Lee Martin, LCDR. If you knew him, please respond.

Saw the Blue Angels in Grand Junction Colorado last Sunday as we were coming in from Iowa. We were so impressed. It was an airshow. Unreal.

i think it replaced the f14 tomcat

I wonder how it compares to the Rafale, Eurofighter, and Gripen.

16;29 What are those MiGs doing there?

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The fa-18

My Father was an electrical engineer for McDonnell Douglas. I have awesome test flight pictures of the F-18. The aircraft is painted white with blue and gold stripes. A hornet and the word Navy was also on the aircraft.

Can’t wait to see the 10” by 19” touch screen displays in the block 111’s

You are showing legacy’s with supers, you should mention that

The after burner blast can reach 10 to 12 thousand degrees!

F-14 Tomcat was a man’s fighter. Not the 18.

So 40 million dollars i can own one?

F15

SR-71 ??? F-22 RAPTOR!!!!

Nope you can't beat f- 14s. They were so nasty in there time. Killers they were.

Watching this video it brings my right back on deck, from being a plane captain on the Kitty Hawk for OSW, learning to keep my head on a swivel and taking any chance I could to help the ordies rack 500lb LGB’s the old fashioned way. Writing “love” notes to Saddam on the ordnance with chalk. Feeling the adrenaline rush every time I stepped on deck. Later being an airframe troubleshooter and walking down our jets for final checks as it taxis on the cat. Doing the final flight control check, the giving the “thumbs up “ to the shooter and grabbing a pad eye as the jet launched. Strangely enjoying smell of fresh steamed grease and aviation fluids. Taking a cat shot off the Independence in a COD on my final cruise. Crazy to think that was over 25 years ago and the F/A-18’s that were the most high tech members of the fleet are now “legacy” Hornets and all but fully retired in the US. Even though they are 30-40 years old a few still continue to fly with the RCAF and the Finnish AF. Proud to say I was a Hornet Handler and would gladly do it again if I had the chance. Love and respect to all the past and present Hornet and Super Hornet handlers out there. Stay safe. If you are doing this now, save the memories while you can, 30 years goes by in a flash.

Amazon plane! Age doesn’t matter every year updated I’m sure! Mean fighter jet

Angels of the sky. Absolutely a team of heros

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F-18 are garbage

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A bit pompous…

My uncle piloted the F4 phantom in Vietnam so I'm bias to that plane but the Hornet is the icon of our military might, serving for so long, updated constantly, such a great design.🇺🇸

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My baby jet❤

Not a bad video but definitely dated. The F-14 has been out of service for over15 years. Kind of odd to post this in 2022 when the F-18 is facing being phased out itself for the F-35.

Thank you for calling it the McDonnell Douglas F-18!!! Props to Northrop as well

This reads like a nature documentary

finally got around to watching this! great video! one question, if the f/a-18 replaced the a-7 and the f-4, where does the f-14 fit in? did it co-occupy the carriers with the a-7 or was it also a hybrid attack/fighter?

I wish they would’ve made up a air show team of F-14s

It looks like the DOD needs to step up the variable cycle engines to swap out these gas guzzler planes. Spending too much on planes and not enough on engines for these multibillion dollar planes.

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You get caught in G lock it corrects it's self?..... WOW.....

Love the hornet ❤

Which one is Maverick

Vfa 87 f/a 18 a+ and are pilots where the best top gun and blue angel at time was only other squadron that flew same jet so we got to catch them when in va Beach AD 3 pc / final checker troubleshooter 2 deployments oef loved it miss it

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OUTSTANDING VIDEO!!!!

I was a yellow shirt on the USS. RANGER V1 FLY 3 ,72 at the end of the f4,so proud of our advancement

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If the US really want to disturb Russia, we would give Ukraine these bad boys

Need to update your stuff. The S-3 hasn't flown since around 2004 or so. The Super Hornet took overshot roll. Not watching anymore after I seen you mention that

he said amwam😭😭 but great show, gets me hooked right away