No fancy paint, just all muscle. This twin engine F-18 Super Hornet with 20,000 lbs thrust per side (before the burner is on) is designed to lift nearly 18,000 lbs of ordinates and a 20mm canon off a carrier deck with room to spare. Probably the most formidable and highly manuverable fighter jet today.
I shot Capt. Shawn Mangrum doing a fly by for me from 80' in the tower leaving Hot Springs Airport on his way back to California. A Navy pilot (brown shoes).
Last edited by Bill McCrystyn; 08-09-2010 at 06:20 PM.
That would be soooo fun. We just won 1st place on a readers choice award of the 7 places in town "Best Ice Cream" and KATV channel 7 ABC out of Little Rock is coming to film us on a critics choice showcase this Thursday. We make some of the best ice cream money can buy. See ya soon. :)
hey bill, do you have another picture of this plane with the tail markings shown? what i'm seeing dont jive. the X that i see shows up as Laughlin AFB and there are no F-18's there. and 162, if that denotes 162nd Fighter Wing comes back as an F-16 at Tuscon Intl Airport. i gotta be missing something!!
one of my favorite jets!! did he wave to you as he went by?:)
You nailed it Harold. China lake is correct. He will refuel in Colorado and then home. He waved on the fly by after we had dinner at the Bleu Monkey Saturday night. He is an old friend of mine. I still couldn't get him to give me a roll over. F-16's are single engine (note pic below), trust me, it's a Super Hornet single seater cockpit.