Post by Linda Sharps You have to hand it to Charlie Sheen: despite the utter craziness of his 2011 Winning/Tiger Blood/F-18, Bro/Vatican Assassin Warlocks phase, he's pretty much stayed out of trouble since those days. If he's still living a messed-up, drug-fueled lifestyle, he's at least keeping it out of the tabloids. Show More Summary
Piloted by an F-18 fighter pilot, we see just what the Boeing Dreamliner can do when put to the test. Stretching the aircraft and pushing it to the limit of its ability, the pilot guides the 787 to climb and soar at a degree and rate...Show More Summary
Awesome footage of a U.S. Navy pilot from Carrier Strike Group 8 and his F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The plane takes off, practices aloft and lands back at the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hat Tip Link
What does flying an F18 fighter jet feel like? This may be the closest
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How awesome would it be to sit at the gears of a fighter jet and see the world from tens of thousands of feet above ground at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour? Most of us will never get the opportunity to fly a fighter jet, of course, but worry not, you can now [...]
I love the GoPros or whatever cameras the people at the Carrier Strike Group 8 used to make this awesome video. It shows the complete experience of flying a VFA-103 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower. [Flight Global] More »
I love this photo of the USS John C. Stennis nuclear supercarrier. It looks like a tiny model thanks to the F-18's exhaust fumes, which distort the air above part of the deck and turns the image into a bit of a tilt-shift photo. Mor...
Post by Linda SharpsYou know, for a while there it was sort of seeming like Charlie Sheen was becoming, well, not normal, exactly, but maybe not quite so DUH WINNING TIGER BLOOD BITCHIN' ROCK STAR FROM MARS I'M AN F-18 BRO ADONIS DNA. Show More Summary
Minister for Defence Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) fleet of 24 F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft have achieved Final Operational Capability (FOC). This is a major milestone for the Super Hornet fleet and is a major step forward for Australia’s Air Combat Capability The [...]
John Ivison’s latest column is mostly about the F-35 F-18 replacement F-35, but it...
Finally. A beautiful video of some amazing airplanes – all shot air-to-air – and mercifully devoid of a cheesy soundtrack or lame commentary. Just a camera, a pair of NASA F-18s, the agency's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and the orbiter...
I saw this photo in my feed and I couldn’t believe my eyes. Two grounded F-18s under fire?
I saw this photo in my feed and I couldn't believe my eyes. Two grounded F-18s under fire? Not quite: They are two F/A-18 Hornets assigned to the Blue Angels, starring in the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar 2012 Air Show. Just a controlled "wall of fire," as the US Navy calls it. More »
Beautiful timelapses and awesome angles filmed with GoPros inside F-18 cockpits. That's what you will find in this video filmed by the men and women of the US Navy. I'm amazed at the skill of these people. It starts slow, but keep watching and it soon gets awesome. Worth of a Top Gun reboot. More »
Would rather be a pilot in the navy or the air force? The US Navy answers this question with a video of an F-18 night-landing on an aircraft carrier. Hard to argue with that. It’s terrifying.
Last Friday I asked people if they would rather be a US Navy or a US Air Force pilot. The US Navy itself replied with this video of an F-18 night landing on an aircraft carrier. Hard to argue with that. It's terrifying. More »
02 October 2012
Incredible photos from last Friday's accident in Canada ( Lethbridge ). Check out the sequence of the canopy leaving the scene, the pilot in his rocket-powered seat coming out, the parachute opening sequence, and the separated seat falling away. Show More Summary
NASA photographer Jim Ross took this picture (from inside one of the F-18 chase jets) of the space shuttle Endeavour on top of a modified 747 jet as it soared over the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California on its final flight. Click to see a very detailed view of this shot on NASA’s Flickr page. [...]
NASA photographer Jim Ross took this picture (from inside one of the F-18 chase jets) of the space shuttle Endeavour as it flew over the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California on September 21, 2012. Click to see a very detailed view of this shot on NASA’s Flickr page. Also, here’s a great video that shows [...]
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) has been awarded a competitive prototyping contract by The Boeing Company to develop an embedded global positioning/inertial navigation system (EGI) for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft. Show More Summary