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The Gray Ghost · Post by **The Gray Ghost** » Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:00 pm

He's trying - give him credit - but a pale shadow of the master.

10ac · Post by **10ac** » Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:15 pm

The onside kick says all you need to know about this team.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:59 pm

SHINY!

GBJs · Post by **GBJs** » Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:24 pm

There is no substitute.

Signed,
F/A-18 Hornet

Professor Tiger · Post by **Professor Tiger** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:04 pm

You like the Plastic Bug?

It may be better than the F-35, a plane that is absolutely not woth... every... cent...

GBJs · Post by **GBJs** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:04 am

I love the Hornet. Absolutely amazing aircraft and man she was great to work on.

As far as the best looking fighter? Tomcat Baby! The deck guys would bring her up to the cats loaded for launch, and she would look at ya sayin “Don’t fuck with me... I’ll ruin yer afternoon “.

Professor Tiger · Post by **Professor Tiger** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:49 am

The Tomcat was indeed one of the coolest planes we ever made. No wonder they made a movie about it.

When I was in high school, I was a Sea Cadet whose unit was at NAS Atlanta. One of the very first Tomcats off the assembly line stopped off for fuel during a drill weekend. The whole base turned out too see it. As he taxi’d away, the pilot swung the wings back and forth, getting cheers. And as soon as he cleared the runway, he went vertical and kicked in the afterburners. The crowd made an “ooooh..... ahhhh.” For us enthusiasts of naval aviation, that was one, awesome, unforgettable sight.

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:55 am

I wish he had tipped one of those wings onto the top of your head and then aimed the afterburners onto your corpse...

Professor Tiger · Post by **Professor Tiger** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:25 pm

Tedious. You’re losing your mojo again. Get with Rat for yet another refresher class.

DooKSucks · Post by **DooKSucks** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:23 pm

The F-15 was and is superior to anything else made during its era, and if you don't believe it, ask some retired fighter jock in Goldsboro...

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:09 pm

I'm sure in a 1v1 aerial engagement it was. The F15 was designed as a straight air supremacy fighter. The F14 had that as a role, but its design would surely have been restricted by the fact that it had to be a carrier based naval fighter. That means not only being designed to be able to get in the air and back down onto a boat, but also the fact that its primary aerial supremacy role would be get in the air and shoot down whatever is coming as soon as possible and hopefully do it way before it gets near the boat.

GBJs · Post by **GBJs** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:26 pm

Edward F. Zachary. Built to take the punishment of a carrier environment. Of course, the Tomcat had a ludicrous advantage when coupled with the Phoenix missile system, and she was the only plane to fly it. Essentially she was a super hot girl that knew how to kick ass.

Plus the wings would sweep. If yer wings don’t fold or sweep, just stay on the porch.

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:40 pm

Is that the one Maverick flew in Top Gun?

Professor Tiger · Post by **Professor Tiger** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:08 pm

DooKSucks wrote:The F-15 was and is superior to anything else made during its era, and if you don't believe it, ask some retired fighter jock in Goldsboro...

Air Force pilots will always say the F-15 was better. Navy pilots will always say the Tomcat is better.

With all due respect to the USAF, I side with the Navy. They have much ballsier pilots. It’s not that hard to take off and land on a mile long runway. Any airline pilot can do that. But it takes huevos grandes to land on a moving, rolling, pitching 5 acre flight deck at night that’s 100 miles from the spot where you took off.

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:09 am

I would think it would take a typhoon to make an aircraft carrier roll and pitch...

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:51 am

Or BRM

DooKSucks · Post by **DooKSucks** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:24 am

Professor Tiger wrote:
DooKSucks wrote:The F-15 was and is superior to anything else made during its era, and if you don't believe it, ask some retired fighter jock in Goldsboro...
Air Force pilots will always say the F-15 was better. Navy pilots will always say the Tomcat is better.

That's the mindset to which I was alluding. I'm a fucking civilian who hates confined spaces and loads up on scotch and xanax before boarding a plane. What the fuck would I know? Damn. You fuckers think I was serious?

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:43 am

In fairness, Antarctica would be a confined space to you...

GBJs · Post by **GBJs** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:11 pm

AlabamAlum wrote:Is that the one Maverick flew in Top Gun?

Yes.

When you see Tom again, let him know the movie was truthfully about the plane... he was purely a supporting role.

dave_rickart · Post by **dave_rickart** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:13 pm

"What the fuck would DS know? "

we've been asking that same thing for years...

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