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Apr 4^th, 2005 at 8:46pm

Boss_BlueAngels Offline
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Ok, man, this jet is flippin' awesome! You can see why this jet really does not need thrust vectoring... all it would do is add weight. And, as awesome as the Tomcat is... let me see a Tomcat do HALF of the maneuvers this bird does! In particular, watch the pullup from the 1/2 cuban 8 on takeoff... the nose of the jet is like 45 degrees NOSE UP while it's still descending! (about 43 seconds in) Then watch about 2:15 into the video and see this thing point its nose straight up! Well, just watch the whole video.

http://www.stevesairshow.com/videos/oceana04/friday/oceana04-fri-f-18f-demo.rm

This makes me VERY excited for this coming summer, as I'll get to see this beauty in July AND September! Wohoo, I'm going to get to see her fly for FOUR days! Wohoo! I promise to post some pics of that display!

P.S. Here is another one from a different day...

http://www.stevesairshow.com/videos/jsoh04/jsoh04-rhino-entire.rm

The day is always better when you're flying upside down.&&&&www.fight2flyphoto.com&&&&Canon RebelXT&&Canon 18-55mm&&Sigma 10-20mm F/4-6.3&&Sigma 100-300mm F/4-6.3&&Sigma 50-500mm F/4-6.3

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Reply #1 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 10:15pm

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Awesome!

AMD Athlon 64 3700+&&GeForce FX5200 256Mb&&1GB DDR400 DC&&Seagate 500Gb SATA-300 HDD&&Windows XP Professional X64 Edition&&&&That's right, I'm now using an AMD! I decided to give them another try and they kicked the pants off of my P4 3.4!

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Reply #2 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 10:40pm

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F/A-18 is the coolest_aircraft_ever. I rest my case.

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Reply #3 - Apr 6^th, 2005 at 10:47pm

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Cool

Kinda sums it up...

Pilot for a major US airline certified in the: EMB-120, CRJ, 727, 737, 757, 767, and A-320 and military, T-38, C-130, C-141, and C-5 along with misc. other small airplanes. Any questions, I'm here for you.

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Reply #4 - Apr 10^th, 2005 at 3:44pm

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F/A-18 is the coolest_aircraft_ever. I rest my case.

LOL ditto.... but, if you think that's the coolest every, why not go for the Navy? Just a question.

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Reply #5 - Apr 10^th, 2005 at 4:26pm

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The privilege you Americans haven't had yet is seeing the Eurofighter Typhoon and the F/A-18 Super Hornet in the same show (I doubt you've see the Typhoon at all unless you live at China Lake)...

2 awesome displays... Grin

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Reply #6 - Apr 10^th, 2005 at 8:55pm

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LOL ditto.... but, if you think that's the coolest every, why not go for the Navy? Just a question.

Why not the marines? would be mine. Wink

I don't know whether or not I'm going to be a fighter pilot yet-I've always just kinda ssumed that I was going to fly heavies, but if I do decide to go into the fighter program, I'm gonna go with the marines.

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