MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Super Hornet (N507)

Thanks for the message and the up-vote!

I don't get on here often. I've been a member for about two years but only uploaded my first images last night.

What is "VIEWFLU"?

Looked at your work... I can see you're interested in VERTOL airframes. My uncle was an aerospace and mechanical engineer working for the FAA in Long Beach for 45 yrs. I can remember him telling my father, a mechanical engineer in power production, over Thanksgiving dinner at our house, that they were looking at VERTOL aircraft. They argued about my father's position that it was far too complex a mechanism to be sufficiently reliable in flight. Wasn't his area of expertise, so I'm not surprised.

Thirty years ago, I was living in Amarillo where Textron was testing the Osprey for the Marines and they had (I think) three crashes. It was weird telling my father (who died just 8 yrs ago) that what his brother-in-law had told him was on the verge of becoming reality. My dad's response was that three crashes were "not a good flight history."

Thanks for the contact!

David, the ICAO aircraft type designator code for the Boeing EA-18 Growler is F18S. If you change the code that you entered, your photo will be correctly identified and indexed in the FA photo database.

Great photo!

Great shot, that centre line tank just looks rude though!

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