F/A-18 HORNET - American Supersonic Twin Engine Combat Jet Made By McDonnell Douglas. HD Documentary

"It saved what is left of my dwindling dignity and relevancy................................no, wait, it didn't."-Tom Cruise

"Ground to Air"...Don't you mean Air to Ground?

“Mikoyan MIG-29”: Was Mr. Gurevich made the victim of a purge or something?

I was stationed in the very first f-18 squadron on the east coast VFA-131 Wildcats out of NAS Cecil Field fla 1984/1988 , We were attached to CAG-13 onboard the USS Coral Sea and seen the first combat in Libya operation el-dorado canyon , Airlants first and finest sure miss those days good video !

Is this the jet that chased the imaginary tic tac ufo ?

Interesting fact: if you remove the limiter (like the Canadian demo team does on their hornets) it can actually pull up to 10 Gs

Best fighter in dcs

Great post .,again..👍

Legacy Hornet video..SuperHornet thumbnail 🤔

Amazing

Very interesting. Thank you!
(Thinking out loud here) I don't understand the production methodology used in docs like these. The script was clearly written by a non-native English speaker, while the narration was done by someone who is a native speaker. And yet the structural and grammatical errors are left in. That's never made sense to me. Like the narrator never said "Hey, this sentence is wrong, it should be ______". Anyway....

30 seconds in and you've already got it backwards? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I was with first Hornet squadron VFA 125 Powerplant shop. Engine change in 20 minutes because unlike F4 and A7 the Hornet had an accessory mounted gearbox which held the generator, fuel pump, starter control valve and hydraulic pump and driven by a PTO shaft attached to the Engine gearbox. On the A7 and F4 those components were attached to the engine.

Had a lot of issues with rubber bladder fuel tanks leaking but we’re resolve. Drop tanks were troublesome but Mac Air built a test rig that allowed us to test tanks and effect repairs. Usually it was the bleed air check valve. Folks need to understand in 1980 we were just starting to train pilots and technicians pushing them into the fleet. Cold War tempo was getting hot and we had the bird that became the backbone of Naval Aviation.

I love the hornet! Very underrated aircraft and the block 3 were getting soon, will be a beast

I grew up loving the F-14, was like 15 when Top Gun came out, it’s always held a sweet spot for me. But the F-18 really is a bad ass aircraft and has had longevity way beyond the 14.

It’ll be a sad day when all of these old warbirds are retired and all we have a F-35’s all over. Yea, I know all about the modern needs and capabilities the 35 brings, but it’s just not as slick and sexy as this generation of aircraft. Sorry to all you Fat Amy drivers, it’s just the way it is.

The hero of this story sounds like the F-117.

The US has some skills. I would not want to attack us.

Where is the mention of the B1-B? That supersonic bomber had some action in Iraq.

The US doesn't fight a bloody war. We take out the government mostly and save the people.

Hey.... That's Peter Thomas (of Forensic Files) narrating this around 30ish minutes into the program... :)

they gave canada this not the f 15

arabs made a huge mistake,,fools

incorrect after 30 sec. your in a fighter. ground to air is not the A. its air to ground.... do the reseach

Fun fact, Northrop makes the aft fuselage for the F-18 E/F/G

Two tours with the F18. First with the A/B, second with the C/D. Aviation Ordnance in the Corps.
If you don’t have ordnance, you’re just another unscheduled airliner.
Awesome birds and now the E/F lives on, for now.

Note on the C/D (probably the A/B as wel)
When unable to carry centerline tank and instead carrying two wing tanks, the bird wanted to fly inverted. I know because I downed centerline capability on one of our birds for failure of the emergency jettison test. It took about a year before they found the issue (a misplaced pin in a cannon plug buried in the front wheel well) and they had to fly dual wing tanks and the pilots weren’t happy. A lot of pressure on me in the quality assurance shop to sign it off because “you’re wrong” but I was later vindicated when they found that miss placed pin. Kind of hard to send the signal when the wire isn’t a proper circuit.

1986 Ooeration Prairie Fire was the F18’s first combat mission in 1986.
Followed by Operation El Dorado Canyon in 1986.

The F117 IS NOT properly assigned. It is a ground attack aircraft (this property the A117) but the Air Force wanted to call it a fighter because that’s sexier to military pilots.

Not sure why this is titled F18.

Most underestimated jet - I would give it to Ukraine, if I would be US president. 100 F/A-18 to Ukraine and the Russians would leave Ukraine during 6 months.

Best ever. Looks amazing.

Military might not have officially said anything about the f-117 until 1988 but I knew about it in 1982 as a young high school student it was the worst kept secret I had ever seen

FA-18. F is for Fighter. A is for Attack. Or, Air/Air and Air/Ground, and not Ground/Air.

For me, the Charlie Hornet is the best version and the top predator in the air.

i still have the question....would you rather fly an F-`18 or an F-35? I am thinkking the F-18.

First jet I ever saw do a hovering stand, at Abbotsford B.C. in 1986 I think. 2 days before the airshow one of the Canadian F 18s came in on the appron slowly pulling his nose up with throttle cut, moved into a vertical stand and then he pivoted around 360 degrees, got some fine pictures!!!! He then throttled up, lowered his nose and slowly flew away. Their were some Russian pilots there one in a 29 and a 27 I think, might have been a 28, can't remember, but one of them talked to the canuck pilot and 1 day after the airshow ended ,he was working out how his bird could do the same stunt, crazy pilots out there.

Big thing in Vietnam is there were no spy's able to transmit on the ground info to be used to target manufacturers locations within north Vietnam.

My father's cousin is a mechanic for the raaf base Edinburgh here in Australia and the fa/18 hornet,is still one of the best fighter jets that was ever made same as the tomcats f/15&f/16

A/F18❤

I'm south African but my favourite country ❤is American

Interesting to see the RCAF CF-18 being the thumbnail right next to the American flag 😂

The "A" does not fucking mean "ground-to-air attack"

not sure how this is supposedly an f18 documentary