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F/A 18-D?

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Paul Burke

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I'd take a Prowler over a lawn dart any day. It's a very solid aircraft. Very well built. We had one take a crash landing with only one main mount extended and it was flying only a few days later. If it was a hornet it would've been in depot for 6 months. During workups and cruise, we had 1 F-18 and 4 S-3's craned off the ship. The Hornet got struck by a F-14 wingtip on its stbd vert stab, took about 9 inches off of it, the F-14 diverted to land. The S-3's were craned off for mainteance reasons mostly. 1 of them that was craned after cruise has extensive tail damage from an arresting gear cable that broke when a tomcat was landing. That incident killed a chief.

Performance wise, the prowler is a workhorse. And you will be hard pressed to find any aviator who would want to fly without them airborne.
 
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psu_midn

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Since we are all on the topic of aircraft. I have a little story:

I asked a friend of mine who used to be a Major in the Air "Farce" as a test pilot, for a reference for my app for OCS. He replied back in an e-mail mentioning that I should consider the his branch. I asked him sarcasticly if they had the F/A 18...he just replied back and said "No. We have real fighter jets..."

Oh man oh man!!
 
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Dave Shutter

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quote:...he just replied back and said "No. We have real fighter jets..."

Oh, that's funny because our fake little fighters seem to be flying a lot of real combat missions, dropping lots of real ordnance and getting shot at by lots of very real AAA over there in turbin land.



Edited by - Dave Shutter on 03/04/2002 22:40:39
 
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